‘I don’t like a fixed day in the catering industry’

In

‘I completed the actor training a year ago and was able to immediately stand on the Parade and play in youth theater performances. That was a good start, right after my training. In the fall I had no work, so I went to make coffee in a coffee shop for three months. I knew I would have another job in January and February, so the coffee bar was only temporary.

“I think it’s a nice way of working: combining acting jobs and working in the hospitality industry. I know that people are constantly needed in the hospitality industry, so I am never without a job. I always tell my employers there what my real job is, that’s so fair. And that is also fine; so every now and then I return to a beach bar in Wijk aan Zee. I can already look forward to serving people there when the weather is nice. I just don’t like a fixed day in the catering industry, then it is too difficult to combine with my work as an actress. For example, I recently did a project in Zeeland. Then I’ll be gone for a few weeks.

“Due to the different projects, it is difficult to say how much I earn each month. Sometimes it is little, for example if I make my own work, but with a good acting job it can be 2,000 euros in two weeks. And if I am away from home for a longer period of time, I rent out my room below, so that I can save.”

Out

‘In October, after a year of work, I can finally go on holiday with my boyfriend. I would like to make a long and distant journey one day, but I think that’s still too exciting. Soon I will receive a very nice offer in terms of work and I will miss it. In October we are going to Portugal. Then I finally have some more space to think about what kind of performance I want to make myself. That is less good if you keep going from acting job to catering.

“My parents still pay for my telephone subscription, insurance and my car, but the fuel costs are for me. Furthermore, I spend quite a bit every month on going out to dinner and drinking good coffee. Recently I bought a cappuccino and then I had to pay 3.50 euros. Then I thought for a moment: was that coffee always so expensive? But it won’t stop me from ordering it again next time.

“I couldn’t say no to the boy from the Aidsfonds when he was at the bottom of the stairs, so I now pay 15 euros a month. I had planned to stop that and then support something that I would figure out myself, but that hasn’t happened yet.

“I notice that there are certain friends who buy a house, and then I sometimes think: oh, should I do that too? I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do that, and I actually think it’s really nice not to be tied to anything with my rental house in Amsterdam.”