HUMANS OF BK

HUMANS OF BK CITY

BK City, a place full of fond memories. We asked some of the staff what they wanted to become as a child, and how they ended up at BK City.

Frank, workplace employee

Well, as a child you always want to become a fire fighter, or a garbage man. Those are the kind of things you’d look forward to... but eventually you choose a direction in which to develop through school, friends or people around you. I decided to work with wood at the LTS [red: a former Dutch technical education]. From there on I trained to become a cabinet-maker in Rotterdam. After my specialisation, I ended up in several companies in which I’ve worked as a cabinetmaker, built door and window frames, and eventually even worked on yachts, but that was a bit too fussy for me... Then I ended up here where I’ve been working for 4 years now. It’s been quite a journey but I’m really enjoying the work I do here. And if they’d have me, I’ll stick around for a while.

Nick, @-HOK employee

I always wanted to become an F16-pilot, a fighter pilot. But I didn’t get through the selection process; I was rejected because of my left leg and my coordination. So then I just went to the TU, to study Bouwkunde. I could have done the selection process one more time, but because it all went so well here, I didn’t think switching was necessary anymore. Also, I only realised later on that killing people would also be part of the job. I would have just had to follow commands, and if one of those said to drop a bomb, I would have had to do it. That is when I found out that I was perfectly content being here, at Bouwkunde. After my bachelor, I studied abroad for one and a half years, and now I’m studying in Delft again, following the master Architecture, while in the meantime I work here, together with some other people like Mani (right on the picture)//.