Dutch book publication + An introduction to my new research

I may not have found a job yet, but I did land an offer a few days ago from a small publishing house in the Netherlands to issue the Dutch version of my manuscript in print. In two weeks we'll be discussing the how's and when's. Exciting!
In the meantime I will go through the manuscript again, on the look out for sentences or paragraphs about my mediumship. The publisher was not sure whether the combination of academic study and mediumship would work for the readers. He mentioned that I could always insert an 'afterword' at the end of the book about my mediumistic skills. I'll take a look, and I'll rewrite the sentences or paragraphs if and where necessary.

Last August I felt like wanting to do new research, about multidimensionality. Since then I have been busy searching and pre-investigating materials about the existence or possibilities of parallel universes, and of parallel selves. Look here for a recent article about such possible existence: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/103346/20151105/scientist-may-have-found-proof-of-alternate-parallel-universe.htm
Parallel selves are said to be probable selves until a big decision occurs, such as a choice of study, a marriage, children, divorce, etcetera. For example: a person decides not to have children. A probable self, with the same psychological make-up as the physical self, at that point will come into parallel existence in a parallel world, and it will have children.
 (Borrowed from Henry Sturman.com)

I find that a fascinating idea or theory. I have started to dive in the probabilities of parallel world/universes from the perspective of modern fysics theories, and also from the point of view of reputable discarnate entities like Seth and Elias. Other types of (non-)physical selves have attracted my attention as well. But I will not go into them right now, it is much too early for that.

Multilingual skills are hot

In my first post I forgot to mention that I speak about a 100 languages. Well, that is of course exaggerated, but I do have skills in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish, actively and passively . And I understand German.
So, when browsing through the endless lists of job postings on websites, and not finding one that spoke to me in terms of interests and educational level, I decided this morning to check out the job postings that especially mention Swedish (and/or Norwegian) language requirements.
I bumped into various postings on multilingual recruitment websites, and one of them I found attractive. So I called the company (again, no names), and nicely enough an HR employee called me back.
My language combination was appreciated by the employee, who requested a mail with my CV.
Done and sent! Feeling accomplished right now. And content about the availability of such postings. On Monday I'll check those multilingual sites again. Who knows what catches my eyes, meets my interests, and 'pleases' the (candidate searching) companies!

Apparently, there are many mulitilingual people living in the NLs, according to an EU research conducted in 2013. See the article on the IamExpat website for more information: http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/news/dutch-among-most-multilingual-in-europe.

Luckily, my strange language combination is not often heard of. And I can always learn the scripting/programming languages php and python in addition! :-)
(Image is borrowed from socialsignal.com)

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.