Marieke told presenter Bastiaan Meijer that before she ended up in the media world, she worked at a company that makes travel programs. For example, they made films about Dubai or Johannesburg to show tourists where you really need to go.
“I would fly to Dubai with a colleague and the founder of that company. We knew almost no one there and it was up to us to generate almost three thousand thousand euros in income. I felt the pressure and the stress to get deals. All kinds of restaurants and amusement parks that wanted to pay to get in that film,” she explains about the world that started to dislike her more and more.
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“I got more and more spots on my neck from selling, being away from home and always working. I decided to keep it up for a year. Then I felt I would have done it right, and then I would go back to the Netherlands again.”
However, she did not last that year. This was mainly due to a project in Antwerp, where she was sent on her own. She only came home on weekends. And then came the dramaticGTSTmoment’, as she calls it herself.
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“At one point I was crying in the shower, literally. Then I thought: tomorrow I will resign. I immediately wrote it down in my diary, with a towel wrapped around me and my hair still wet. Very theatrical. ” I really don’t want it anymore!’ I also wrote it down so that I wouldn’t nuance it a day later.”
Marieke is now completely in her element, including as a jury member at I Can See Your Voice. Recently she took us behind the scenes.
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