ABOUT ME

Hey there, it's me, Erik. On the picture you see me smiling, but in 2018 I hit rock bottom. I was done doing work that I didn't care for, didn't understand the point of and didn't feel connected with. After graduating as a mechanical engineer, and years of researching many (corporate) career options, somehow none of those ever made sense to me. I was afraid I was going crazy, and I had no clue what to do. I decided to do something I had never done before: I made a decision to jump in the deep and go travel the world, hoping some answers would come to me. And they did: I realized that to me, the set-up of modern day work life doesn't make sense at all: money seems to be the goal and purpose a nice-to-have. To me, money is like oxygen: without it, you can't live. But nobody wakes up to breathe as much as they can. The idea of work should be to contribute something, to do something valuable. And since so many people seem to agree with me I decided to start Meaningful Work.

Over the years, I’ve grown into the work. Training, guiding, building: it became something I not only believe in, but love doing. I feel at home in what I do now. As a trainer, as an advisor, as an entrepreneur. Every day, I get to build on something I believe in and that matters to me. With the focus, freedom, and all the ambition I want to put into it. Ultimately, I still have the same fire as I started out with: I want to achieve collectively what seems impossible, but is simply sensible.