{"id":5759,"date":"2014-06-24T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:07:43","slug":"telling-stories-about-work-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/telling-stories-about-work-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling stories about work and life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a typically drizzling afternoon, six bright red covered tables stood scattered through the white spacious entree hall of Amsterdam\u2019s newest Public Library. Each table had a sign,\u00a0<strong>\u2018activist clown\u2019, \u2018the big dreamer\u2019, \u2018career switcher\u2019, \u2018doubter\u2019<\/strong>. People entering and leaving the library had but to stop and see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the sign, they then discovered the other person standing at the table. It was the \u2018career switcher\u2019 himself, now turning around the sign, displaying the six chapters of his life \u2018what I wanted to be when I was young\u2019, \u2018eye-openers\u2019, \u2018insecurity is freedom\u2019.\u00a0<strong>\u2018I can tell you the story about how I make a living, and what I think about the concept of work\u2019 the living book said. \u2018Just pick a chapter\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong>Before long, all red tables were buzzing with animated conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were not only listening to the books they opened in this living library. They became storytellers about their working life as well, and books became listeners too. At nightfall, the books had inspired many strangers to follow their dreams, and relieved some from their worries.\u00a0<strong>Stepping out into the drizzle, the activist clown felt taken seriously and the doubter knew her strength: she could do anything.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zombies and Life Hackers united<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last day of the Transeuropa Festival in Amsterdam was windy and cloudy, but inside the colourful room jammed with activities to discover, people hardly noticed. At the adjacent cafe, I got a hot chocolate and walked back into the interactive exposition.<\/p>\n<p>A young man greeted me and explained \u2018at this event we bring together young people who are in a somewhat precarious working situation.\u00a0<strong>We give them the opportunity to learn from each other\u2019s experiences, and inspire them with creative ways of making a living\u2019<\/strong>. I signed up for the workshop \u2018Monetize Your Dreams\u2019 and made my way to a clothesline with orange cards hanging in the corner. The cards said \u2018I can tell you everything about \u2026\u2019 and \u2018I want to know more about \u2026\u2019. I filled out \u2018international development\u2019 and \u2018promoting events\u2019 and wrote my e-mail address at the bottom. I took home a card from someone who wanted to learn about organizing.<\/p>\n<p>At the \u2018networking-couch\u2019 I saw a group of girls talking passionately. I went over and met a girl who just started her own concept developing business.\u00a0<strong>She was tired of the continuously disappointing search for a job, and had taken matters into her own hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the workshop I was paired up with a guy. We shared the same opinion in favour of organic food, but had a very different skill set. By the end of the workshop we had developed a complete awareness event.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon went by. On the wall, a beamer screened documentaries about generation Y. Purple, blue, orange and green posters displayed different ways of coping with precarity. The people in the room listened to snapshot interviews with people making their living at the London Brick Lane Market. We played an online game, trying to make it through one month with minimum wage and daily challenging life choices.<\/p>\n<p>At nightfall, I had a beer at the bar with the people I had met.\u00a0<strong>I felt stronger. I was not alone in my precarity. We were a whole generation. The city offered so many opportunities to combine our skills and make a living. Together we could challenge the conventional office life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Maxime Hofman for writing this article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Library in Amsterdam: \u2018I can tell you the story about how I make a living, and what I think about the concept of work\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transeuropa-network"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Telling stories about work and life - European Alternatives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/telling-stories-about-work-and-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Telling stories about work and life - 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