Walking around downtown Den Haag I noticed a number of job vacancies advertised on shop windows, printed out on A4 paper. Retail work has a high employee turnover. People come and go, often retail is a great summer job for students or young people in transition, but also a lifelong career for others. Is there anything in these job postings I would go for? Considering I’m living on a salary equivalent to a Dutch state welfare cheque for a 24 hour work week, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take on a second job to make ends meet. I currently work in the administrative side of the cultural world, and similarly to retail, cultural admin takes place on evenings and weekends. Three hours here, nine there, hopefully adding up to 24 eventually, with no guarantees on a 0 hour per week flexible contract. The week fills up spottily with morning and evening shifts; a weird dead space in the middle of the afternoon where returning home would be a waste of time.
