Butcher's son and WORK

I come from an artisanal butcher's family that had been butchering since 1903. Hard work. Don't talk, just polish. I just didn't want to be a butcher because I discovered computers. I'm actually a nerd and love technology. I want to know how things work. Yet I worked actively in the butcher shop until I was 26, from making sausage to slaughtering cows.

At the age of 13 I wrote my first software. During my studies I came into contact with networks and the internet. I was immediately sold. That's how I started as a programmer (C and C++), after KPN, ING and Achmea I entered the startup world. Nice and hectic. From the first customer to the sale of the tent, as Operational Director (COO) or General Manager (CEO), also as an active shareholder. I had my own company and sold it again. I am currently self-employed and work as COO at an American website that employs around 200 people and I also work on TECHNOTherapy in the evenings. If you want to know everything, take a look at my LinkedIn profile.

Enjoy MUSIC

I am a big fan of everything that has to do with music. Every year has a full agenda with concerts and festivals. Especially dance and then preferably techno like at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), Awakenings, Mysteryland, DGTL and LoveLand. But also Paul Kalkbrenner, Rammstein and even Katy Perry and Pink. For many years I played as a hobby on my Yamaha keyboard, but never in a band or something.

In 2022 I decided not to just listen to music but to start producing music myself. I do this under my own name and the name SonOfaButcher. You can find my work on Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud, Apple music and other music networks. I started TECHNOTherapy in 2024 because I want to help people with my experience as a musician, technician, employee, employer, divorced father of 2 daughters and more.

My LIFE LESSONS

A few things that have changed my life and that I can help others with

Positive

• Growing up in a butcher's shop, traditional slaughter, making sausage and working in the shop, hard work
• My studies and two inspiring teachers
• Computers and the early days of the Internet
• Business success, always a step up, extreme growth
• Travel a lot for work abroad
• If there is a setback, I always bounce back from it
• Financial success
• Inspiring bosses
• My children and my partner
• Living on a boat for 10 years
• Making music yourself, going to clubs, concerts and festivals
• The depressed music in the 80s, house music in the 90s, trance in the 00s and then Techno!

Tough

• Bipolar mood disorder in my teens
• Dyslexia and ADHD, although that used to be called "busy".
• The death of too many people in my family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues
• Witnessing a suicide up close on the railway near Naarden Bussum
• 4 months in hospital
• Frustrating bosses
• Multiple reorganizations
• Because I am responsible for a large group of people in my work, I encounter their business and private problems almost every day.
• Bankruptcy of my company
• Financial problems, both private and business
• Relationship problems
• My divorce
• And more...