About me
I was born on the 2th of june in 1992, in a very small town, Warder, it’s half an hour away from Amsterdam. But the difference can’t be bigger, in every facet possible. There is such a big difference in mentality and way of thinking if you compare Amsterdam and Warder. I went there to the primary school, which was across the road.
Elementery school
After primary school I went to the secondary school in Hoorn, it’s a middle sized city. All the kids that came from Warder went there on the bike, it was a two hour bike ride every day. I followed the VMBO course there, they actuallywhere surprised by that on my elementary school. They where in the assumption I would score lower on my CITO-exam.
I didn’t quite fit in at school, the people in my class were very different than me. They were a lot louder and brazer than I was. I was shy and silent, I wasn’t confident about myself at all. So the time on VMBO was a little tuff for me. I needed to wear a mask, and pretend I was someone how I clearly wasn’t. I did pass all my classes every year, and graduated for VMBO at the age of sixteen.
Making the decision for my next education wasn’t hard for me. I already know at the age of thirteen that I wanted to be a goldsmith. I liked working with hands, and loved drawing. I always scored high on those lectures, so it was clear that I needed to do something creative. But the only school for goldsmith is in Schoonhoven, that was a three hour traveling away from my parents house. And I was only sixteen when I graduated from VMBO, so that lead me to the discussion to stay in high-school a little longer. I decided to participate at the HAVO course for the next two years.
goldsmith
I started my course for goldsmith after the HAVO, and I loved it. I fully fitted in there, and was actually good in what I did. But the tuff part begins after your school, ”real life” starts. I needed to find a job, and I realized that it’s really hard for a goldsmith. Eventually I found a job as a diamond cutter in a really big company GASSAN. I learned how it was to work for a million dollar company. And most of all how it was to be treated as a number. At the same time I was working for a really small goldsmith company, I was the only employe. I loved it there, but the difference between the company’s couldn’t have been bigger. During that time I started thinking about how a business works. And what you could do to make a success of your own company.
I wanted to broaden my knowledge, and learn more of the business side, instead of the practical side.I could make a better use of my talents in that way. That is why I started at IBIS, it’s a mix of creativity and business and that sounded as a perfect fit for me.