Fresh from finishing my study Urban Geography (2007) I was detached as a researcher at gemeente Rotterdam. It wasn't my first time working in Rotterdam, because I already had done interviews for E-Quality in Rotterdam. The work here was different, because I was appointed a desk where I sat and did all my work all day.
Now I wasn't the 'veldwerker', but the one working with the data results from the fieldwork. Most of the work was done in Excel and some with SPSS. The research which I was assigned, was a research that was done on regular base. Most of the work in Excel had been programmed to make the reports all look the same in design, tables and graphs. I had to be aware if everything in the tables and graphs was oke and then write about the results and at the end of the report give advice.
* I worked at E-Quality from 2005 - 2007. E-Quality merged and became Atria in 2012.