You wake up, what is the first thing you do?
First I make sure to have a shower, dress myself and have breakfast with Joep (zhe husband). After that, I take Siem out of bed, feed and dress him and bring him to daycare. As I’ve moved out of Amsterdam to afford my ‘grown-up-house’, I need to wake up pretty early to get everything done and to catch the train in time. Little detail: we found out this week that Fleur has breakfast in bed at least twice a week, brought to her by her husband. Understandably we are beyond jealousy of this fact.
You get in the office, what’s next?
When I get in, I like to make a cup of tea with a splash of milk (I’m not a coffee drinker) and then I get through my mailbox to see if any inquiries came in.
And then?
Then I have a look at all the projects which are scheduled for the designers. Does everybody know what they have to do? After that I’m working on my own to-do list for that day. I call the people back that have send inquiries so I can go through all the details, as I like to make sure we completely understand what they want. After I send them a quotation based on the wishes they have.
Coolest aspect of the job?
Since working here I’ve been on quite some trips abroad, which I think is really nice. I’ve visited the HQ of Prezi in Budapest, been to London, Marbella, Germany and a few times to Belgium. Definitely a nice aspect of working here!
Okay, hard question: what is the best thing you’ve experienced since working here?
Every year we’re going on a weekend trip with the whole office. Generally we rent a big house in the countryside and there are always lots of activities planned. The part which I like most is that you get to know people in another way, it’s a complete different setting from the office. It’s also these moments that I feel really proud of the time.
Biggest accomplishment?
When we won the Prezi Award in 2017, that felt as a fantastic accomplishment. We won the award for the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre project, which I worked really hard on. It was a complex subject with lots of data which were difficult to process at first sight. However we accomplished to turn the ‘dry data’ into a lively presentation, having that acknowledged by Prezi was really cool. Want to see the result? Check it here.