{"id":108831,"date":"2020-02-05T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=108831"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:41","slug":"working-while-studying-this-student-is-a-fanatic-fitness-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/02\/05\/working-while-studying-this-student-is-a-fanatic-fitness-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Working while studying: this student is a fanatical fitness trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working as a waiter, a call center agent or a babysitter. How do students earn extra money during their studies? In this episode: Zeki Schults studies Health Policy and Management and works as fitness trainer at Erasmus Sport.<\/p>\n

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Zeki trains a lot, eats healthily and doesn\u2019t drink alcohol. As a fitness trainer you have to give up a certain amount of pleasure in life, but he doesn\u2019t mind at all. The bachelor student was already around at the Erasmus Sport fitness center when he was still in high school. He had been training at the gym for years before he started to work there. \u201cI liked it so much that at a certain point I just asked if I could work as a trainer.\u201d He had yet to wait another year before the opportunity presented itself. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic\u201d, he says about his job. \u201cHere I can turn my passion into my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

On average, Zeki works around four hours a week. His task is mainly to guide the members of the gym. \u201cI have to make sure, for example, that they use the right exercise technique\u201d, he says. \u201cBut I also have to keep the fitness equipment clean.\u201d Even though he finds the cleaning terrible, he still wants to continue working as a trainer, perhaps even full-time when his studies are completed. \u201cThis year I\u2019m going to get my personal trainer certificate\u201d, he says. \u201cSo at least I have that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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