Welcome to my new blog on my life as a 50 year old lady living in Amsterdam!

My name is Jantine, and right now I am jobless, struggling with the tough 50 plus job market in the beautiful capital city of the Netherlands.
So I decided to create a blog and dedicate it to all jobless 50 plus people in this city. As lots of them are not necessarily native Dutch, and as 50-plussers in other countries might be interested in this blog as well, I chose to write in English. By the way, the picture of the canal houses in Amsterdam is taken by the photographer Koen Smilde.


Of course our identity stretches much further than our jobless position. So I'll be talking a lot about my activities next to job hunting. However, this first post is about my stats only, just to give you an impression of my work background.

My target job: information and data research specialist, who gathers, analyzes and reports on information and data blocks from various fields.

My hunting status:
- Checking out job web sites such as Monsterboard and Nationale Vacaturebank and applying for open positions where suitable, usually in the morning.
 - Already done: communication of CV(s) to job companies and uploading CV to forenamed web sites.

My work experience:
- Author of non fiction book on free will, consciousness and the self. Published in Feb 2013.
- Writer of crime novel, not published.
- Writer/author of 2 blogs, no longer online.
- Investigator into consciousness topics
- Information coordinator, reporting manager, as well as customer satisfaction data and information analyst, (FTE) with a large multinational, for 16,5 years. No need for a name.

That's enough facts for now. The next post will be more about the stuff I do for fun. My fun, that is.