User:Robin.lemstra
Robin Lemstra | |
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| Born | Robin Wouter Lemstra |
| Occupation | Computer Technician |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Spouse | Talisa Orens (2007–present) |
Robin W. Lemstra is a computer technician from Groningen (city), Netherlands.
Biography
Robin was born on February 4, 1986 in Groningen. For the first 12 years of his life, he was raised in a progressive christian setting. His parents Divorced when he was 14.
Medical history
In his early life, Robin was almost misdiagnosed with epilepsy, and prescribed drugs as a preventive measure. This treatment was refused by his parents. After his parents insisted on a second opinion, Robin was rediagnosed with ADHD and PDD-NOS. Robin spent time in therapy, not exactly knowing why. Later in his adolescent life it was fully explained to him. When asked about the subject he usually responds indifferent about the subject; stating that he "doesn't really care about it, everyone has something, it's how much we let it affect us that defines us".
Academic life
In 2002 Robin passed his high school exams and went on to study Information communication technology. In 2005 he graduated.http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_headline.png After trying to get admission to a higher level of college for a few months, he decided to take a break from school and got a job. In 2007 he started a Bachelor's degree study of Human resource management which he did not finish. He suspended his studies in February, 2008.
Professional life
Robin has had a series of jobs. In 2001 (aged 15), he started at Informatie Beheer Groep, a branch of the dutch government. A summerjob for 3 weeks, he spent the time in the archives and in the mailroom.
Later in 2001 he had a small paperroute for a local weekly paper.
In the summer of 2002, Robin started a summerjob in the kitchen of a nursinghome. Preparing meals and delivering those and afterwards cleaning the kitchen, he resigned after 8 weeks. Later in 2002, he started as a stockboy at EDAH Supermarket. He was fired in his trialperiod due to a personel preference by the store manager.
In April of 2003 he re-tried a grocerystore, this time he became a stockboy at Albert Heijn. After a year, he also started working the registers.
In August of 2005 he resigned and looked for another job.
In September of the same year he found a job at Transcom Worldwide, a division of Investment AB Kinnevik. Spending 2 months on the phone as a 1st line agent, performing telephone Techsupport for an internet provider. He quickly got promoted to 2nd line agent. In August of 2007 he resigned his function to completely focus on his new study.
In March of 2008, after the whole college adventure, he found another job at Atos Origin again as a callcenter agent in a technical function, this time performing technical support for computerusers within an outsourcing company.
After the move to Belgium, Lemstra spent 1 year settling in and had a side-job at SNT.
After a year, he joined Tobius, an IT Profesional Delivered Services agency.
Hobbies and interests
Computers
Since he was about 5 years old, Robin has displayed a strong preference to videogames. He started on his fathers PC, exploring more than the entertainment possibilies.
After a few years, the computer got replaced by a Nintendo Entertainment System. iN 1997, this was replaced by a Nintendo 64.
After which, Robin continued consolegaming with; * A Nintendo Gamecube, A Sony Playstation, A Sony Playstation 2, a X Box, a Gameboy Advance and finally a Nintendo DS. Next to several self-built PC's.
Robin's love for videogames as a child have been very influential and has been described as being the foremost reason of pursuing a career in ICT.
Construction
Over the years, Robin has also displayed a strong preference for buildingtoys. He has started with Lego and later Technical Lego. In 2002, all these were discarded and replaced by a collection of Gundam models.
Music
Robin has an alternative taste in music. Since 2001 he is a fan of Iron Maiden, having attended a concert in 2006, and another one in 2008. Also, since 2005, Robin is an admirer of Metallica. Next to some other rock, alternative and heavy metal classic metal thrash metal punk rock grunge bands, Robin likes to listen to classical music; favouring Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
Instruments
Robin has also tried to learn how to play the Guitar. After 4 years of lessons, he had however decided to focus his energies elsewhere.
For the foreseable future, Robin wants to learn to play the drums and the piano.
Books
Robin has always been quite fond of reading. Starting at the age of 7, with weekly trips to the local library, the dutch books turned uninteresting at age 12, at which he started reading english books. This, in no small part, has helped his above average knowledge of the english language.
Media
As is with most computer enthusiasts, Robin has always displayed a fondness of fictional media. He is mostly a fan of animated entertainment and has a slight collection of anime. More recently, he has picked up a collection in the british series Doctor Who which falls more in line with his past Star Wars and Star Trek interests.
Social hobbies
Since 2007, Robin has joined a veteran Dungeons & Dragons group. The group is made up of former schoolmates. In this, he is able combine his love for games, fantasy and a growing imagination, with social interaction, which computergames and the other hobbies usually rather lack. He does however advocate the social potential of videogames, stating that these and other modern semi-anonymous media give people an opportunity to explore more and try more things like social contacts, though caution and sound judgement should be used like in every other situation, Online Multiplaying (MMORPG) and the modern communication media like online chat applications like MSN Messenger and Skype have the potential of creating good things like his own current love-relationship, that would simply not have existed without them.