Portrait of: Jayme Buter
Meet our team: today a portrait of Jayme Buter
Jayme Buter, 32, a native of Monnickendam, is senior administrator at Kuipers & Claassen. At the end of 2022, he and several colleagues transferred from Total in Support where he had worked since 2015. With the exception of corporate and income tax, he does tax returns, and processes and checks administrations for clients from start to finish. By now he has been skilled in this for nine years.
As a seventeen-year-old, Jayme has been into music for several years, especially in the genres of jump, hardstyle, hardcore and house. At that time, he was better known under the names Dystielec and Lazy Jack and regularly played as a DJ at parties and events. For years he is a regular DJ in Café de Zwaan in Monnickendam where he spins 60s to contemporary music. Besides performing at venues such as Club X Deventer and the cultural breeding ground HAL16 in Utrecht, he often accompanies his brother who is also a DJ. For both of them, he produces their musical expressions. Traces of this can still be found on YouTube. When love entered both brothers' lives, their priorities shifted, although for the past year Jayme has picked up producing hardstyle again under the name DJ Unknown Impact.
Enthusiastically, Jayme talks about his wife and their dog, a Phantom poodle with white paws. Andrea, who hails from Central American Guatemala, worked as an au pair in the Netherlands ten years ago. Although the spark did not immediately fly then, the contact unexpectedly became closer and closer. Within six months, the young couple got engaged. Five years later, they pronounced their wedding vows to each other. The process of being allowed to stay permanently in the Netherlands takes a lot of time. Many times the young couple has to fly them and back. Moreover, a financially precious time. That has now come to an end. She recently received word that her naturalization to Dutch citizenship is complete.
While films in a broad interest have been his preference until now, for some time now he has been reading books frequently. Were these initially more serious books about lifestyles, including "12 Rules for Life" by Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Bernt Peterson, he currently enjoys reading fiction, such as his most recent book, "Before the coffee gets cold," a modern bestseller by Japanese author Toshikazu Kawaguchi, about a cafe in which customers are given the chance to travel back in time in a unique experience. The excitement lies mainly in the fact that they must return before their cup of coffee gets cold, explains decaf drinking Jayme.
He can indulge his imagination in the worlds of Warhammer and Middle-earth, a continent on the fictional Earth Arda that serves as a stage in several stories by British author and professor of English language and literature J.R.R. Tolkien. Regularly as a young boy, Jayme would slide into stores selling fantasy board games where like-minded people competed against each other in a miniature world. Meticulously painting - in tin and plastic - miniature models from these fantasy worlds gives him years of pleasure. He can fully express his creativity in it. Sometimes with some frustration when it doesn't turn out the way he thinks it should.
About two years ago, his interest in miniatures shifted back to his childhood love of LEGO®. The beauty of LEGO®, Jayme explains, is that you can always go back. Take everything apart and start over. He prefers the modular buildings marketed since 2007. A unique world to scale of the familiar little LEGO® minifigures that - partly because of its hefty pricing - is embraced mostly by adults. Like the worlds of Warhammer and Middle-earth, this hobby physically takes up quite a bit of space. "I'm kind of building a city," he apologizes. Looking around for some LEGO® minifigures from the old days at his parents' house, it evokes nostalgic thoughts. The box of building bricks from the Danish toy manufacturer is still there for his young nephews to play with. They also like to visit Uncle Jayme at Christmas to admire the then lighted buildings.
As a sixteen-year-old, he starts a music technology course. Once it turns out that the curriculum is too broad and there is not enough focus on making music, he loses interest. Jayme quit and changed course completely. At the Regio College in Zaandam a few years later he successfully completed his mbo 4 course in business administration. An enrollment in the psychology course then runs aground prematurely. After a brief start in social work, he decides to look for a paid job to make it possible for Andrea to come to the Netherlands. He starts at Total in Support.
Together with his father, Jayme co-founded in 2012 Stichting Publieke Innovatieve Mediadienst, or PIM for short, the local broadcaster of the North Holland municipality of Waterland. From its inception, with his newly acquired knowledge, he gives substance to the treasurer position for three years. He also volunteered for the call as a cameraman during that period.
Depending on the people you ask what typifies Jayme, you'll get a broad answer. With a broad interest in psychology, he dares to characterize himself as an introvert. But he also sees that creative people can emerge as a social chameleon. He shows more of himself in a one-on-one situation than within a group. Within a group, he is significantly quieter. Nevertheless, he is regularly labeled a "nice guy. He himself assigns himself the label family person, caring for the people who matter to him.
A wrongful accusation can make him angry. "The feeling of personal injustice," he sums it up. He has been taught by birth to worry about the problems closest to him. That which is within his sphere of influence. So is the pleasure he takes in helping others. He sees this at the Kuipers & Claassen office where he supervises his colleagues Yie-Zan and Soufyan. Jayme therefore especially recognizes himself in the core value of personal. Of course, he does not exclude professional behavior.
Quotes
Your passion is your passion until something more fun comes along.
My main concern is the creative outlet.
I don't have one big passion.
Start with the problems closest to home.
I am not a traditional accountant.
I am a social chameleon.
