Roel Spruit » Life http://www.roelspruit.com Mobile Man Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:11:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Taiko Drumming in Spain http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/07/18/taiko-drumming-in-spain/ http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/07/18/taiko-drumming-in-spain/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:12 +0000 Roel http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/07/18/taiko-drumming-in-spain/ I spent the last week in Spain, where I took part in a Taiko Drumming workshop organized by Circle Percussion. I had a great time and the group that took part in the workshops was great. The surroundings weren’t bad either; an old olive farm called Finca Forata.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the trip.

]]> http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/07/18/taiko-drumming-in-spain/feed/ 3 New job and diploma http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/03/08/new-job-and-diploma/ http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/03/08/new-job-and-diploma/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:43:09 +0000 Roel http://www.roelspruit.com/2007/03/08/new-job-and-diploma/ At the risk of becoming a life logger, here’s an update of my life for those of you are voyeuristically-inclined.

In February, I quit my job at Nimbuzz. I did my graduation project there in the beginning of 2006 and worked there for half a year after that. I had tremendous amounts of fun there and learned a lot about .NET programming and collaborating with different kinds of people with unique characters. As much as I liked working in such a dynamic environment I decided to seek new adventures.

As I found out, looking for a new job as a .NET developer in the current job climate is not exactly *hard*. I posted my resume on a big online job site and to my surprise, I spent the two weeks after that answering calls every 5 minutes! Fun? yeah kinda. Ego-tripping? you bet’ya. Slightly annoying after a while? absolutely. Anyway, after spending literally hours answering calls and after about 8 job interviews I settled on the big website/portal/intranet company Tam Tam. I started working there on March 1 and I’m enjoying the environment very much.

Besides getting a new job, last month was a pretty exciting one for me. After 5 1/2 years of sweating and boozing I finally got my Bachelors degree in ICT at the Technical University in Rijswijk, NL. I had a really nice time there and made a lot of friends.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to have to talk to my boss about a raise ;)

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