I was born in Amersfoort, but I lived 12 years in Surinam (South America, north of Brasil).
When I was 14, my parents came back to Holland where I finished highschool.
After highschool I studied aircraft engineering for four years and then
I started to work at Fokker Aircraft where I worked for eleven years.
Last January DASA changed its mind about its investments in the aircraft
industry and dropped Fokker. Two months later Fokker went bankrupt and
I lost my job (together with 5000 colleagues).
I was lucky because a found a new job very fast and at the moment I am working as a FORTRAN analyst/programmer.