Here’s a little info about me.
I was born on march 6, 1981 in Amersfoort, a place about in the center of The Netherlands.
After a lot of different jobs next to primary school and senior general second education (which was called HAVO/VWO in The Netherlands), I decided to switch to pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO at the time). Reasons where more then a few, mainly I couldn’t sit still to stamp all this theory into my brain. As a major benefit, this VMBO can be combined with a (allmost fulltime!) job. So from the age of 17 I had an income of my own! Meanwhile the employer paid for school, as it was al based on building craftmanship.
This job, an absolute beginner-car-mechanic at the time, was one of the thirst of which I immediately knew I could last for a decade. And so I did.
Meanwhile career went on, and as i mastered the basics and more advanced learnings on automobile techniques, I went on with courses on specific techniques, and also a few other things that proved to come in handy over the years to come. Such as “how to run your own business” and even a teachers education.
As usual, my private life evolved as well. I grew up (just a little more) Went to live on my own, got together with my girlfriend in our first appartment together in Hilversum, moved out of the rural area into the landside (from Utrecht to Drenthe, a region with over 10 times lower population density).
This last move enabled me to do a lot more with my hobby: Cars. Because the occupation was also my big hobby, I needed al lot of space. This also helpen my girlfriend making the most of her hobbys: We held some of the bigger dog breeds, domesticated pigs (KuneKune), cats, some lizzards and everytime some young bird fell out of it’s nest of became unlucky, neighbours and other folks around brought them to us. So over the years we helped crow’s, a cormorant, someone’s escaped dog (over 4 times!), a pigeon and even a hedgehog find their ways to health again. Give time I’ll try to write out a bit about all these things/ it’s quite a lot 😉
This huge location in the not so crowded area, supplied in a house on about 150 square metres along with a garage of about 100M² or so. All grounds where about 1000 square metres so for people just moved out of a city, imagine how happy we’ve been with all available space!
Well and as time went on: I started my own automotive workshop in this garage next to our house, we got married, got divorced, found a new love, together again moved the growing workshop to a bigger place and once the workshop wasn’t with the house any more, sold the whole place. More about moving real estate for absolute beginners follows on some next topic. Now we bought a much smaller house, much cheaper, much less upkeep, in a rural area (Emmen, a small town), much more social contacts!
This is about where I stand right now. All this time I had some animals, since I divorced it narrowed down to just one or two dogs, because everything you start always demands just that little time and attention.
As a multi-interested person, I have alwayws had a very broad interest. This is reflected in an amount of hobby’s you couldn’t probably imagine 😉 However I did have corona and a little less energy even since. So the amount of attention I’m enabled to put into every hobby shrunk just that much.
However I did a lot of different experiences all over time and will write some down about any of this subjects. You might find it cool (or at least I find it cool!), intriging, enchanting, engaging (sure hope so!) or just interesting.
Subjects about to come include: Cars (might be a big theme), muscle cars, motorcycles, bikes, firearms, how not to negotiate, sales techniques, marketing for beginners, marketing for beginners part 2, marketing for experienced beginners, dogs (the ones I had and their properties), dogs2 (raising them and behaviour), dogs3 (health), pigs, domestic techniques, working with your customers, working with your staff, working with your wife, making music at home, discipline, model trains, personal training and health, living with asthma, Covid, living with long covid.