‘You can’t really criticise something if you don’t understand it’

“I’ve been working at TU Delft since February and I work in facility management. I primarily support teachers and people with meetings, but I do everything that is necessary and asked of me in and around building 36, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). I work for cluster four which means they can put me in any building that falls within that cluster, but my primary tasks are at building 36 or sometimes I go to the other EEMCS building 28.

I love the work and I like the people that I support, the users of the building. And I really like my colleagues, we have a really good time working together. My partner works at TU Delft as well and he’s the reason I applied to work here in the first place. Once in a while we meet for lunch or if we happen to be working in the same area, we bump into each other.

I’m a creative. I write fiction for fun, which is mostly self-indulgent fan fiction. I intend to write my own story which I want to turn into a web comic because I’m also an artist. Together with my little brother I am working on creating an original web animation for which I am the primary writer. He’s the one who came up with the idea but he asked me to help write the story. He comes up with things and I help to spice up the characters and the dialogue and it’s really fun. I hope to publish my story online and my brother and I hope to publish the original web animation on YouTube. Although my art is more of a hobby right now, I would love to make it more serious. That’s a dream of every creative, to turn a passion into their work.

‘I know that I don’t know everything’

I have a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in policy & society. I’m very interested in society and people and I am somewhat critical of politics. My stance is that you can’t really criticise something if you don’t understand it. I’m also well aware that the political climate is essentially a giant pendulum but I don’t want to talk too much about politics.

You can see that my interests are really broad. Even though I’m fairly well educated I know that I don’t know everything. When you meet people with different interests you can always learn something new from them. That’s one of the reasons that I like working here. I’m terrible with mathematics and programming. But, for example, if there’s a professor that tells me about something, I can learn something entirely new that I wouldn’t have thought of myself. I also really enjoy talking to people and asking questions because you can learn a lot that way.”

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Heather Montague / Freelance writer