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Hedda Kise was a working journalist and presenter before being forced to change careers.
In 2020, a record number of people have been laid off and much of the business community is facing a major restructuring in which many employees have to find new career paths. In this series of articles, Nettavisen focuses on profiled people who may find something completely different to do.
BEKKESTUA (Nettavisen): – I am a semi-cultured thief with a basic degree in political science and French and art, and I have been working since I was 16 years old.
The online newspaper made the trip to Bekkestua in Bærum to Hedda Kise and began by asking her about education. The skier already got a job at the Varden newspaper when she was 16 years old and became a permanent employee of NRK Telemark when she was 21 years old.
– I worked really hard and got all the jobs that no one else wanted, remember the period before she was hired. Kise describes his time at NRK Telemark as the place where he learned the most and the best school he could get.
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Walk after
It is not long before we realize that we are dealing with an energy bomb. The 48-year-old speaks lightly and enthusiastically and is clearly used to the stage. He came to TV 2 after a string of buts and buts when he was 24 years old in 1997, a channel with which he had no relationship. It was NRK that mattered, but Kise became the host of “Good morning Norway!”
– I finally said yes and I thought it was a good experience. I had discipline and I worked hard, he says. A host of program manager positions on TV 2 followed, for which she says she is grateful.
You can see the video with Hedda on top of the case.
– But in 2007 you were diagnosed with a brain tumor, how did it affect your career?
– It changed absolutely everything. I was in the hospital for over a year and they told me I would not be working again, and at least not on television.
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Very hard
– The doctors said that the television race was over and that it was very difficult to receive that message. This was my life, I couldn’t do anything else, because I had chosen not to study. I had worked incredibly hard for all that I had accomplished and rarely allowed myself a weekend or vacation.
– It was my identity, where all my self-esteem resided in acting. Then all of a sudden you are told that you are not going to do it anymore.
After the tumor operation, Kise suffered a brain injury. He struggled with motor and language skills.
Work harder
– Is there a message that I have for my fellow men and for the Norwegian people? It’s that those in the hospital are often the hardest working people. I know this from myself and from those close to me, I have never worked again, she says thoughtfully.
During his stay in the hospital, they offered to see how some artists made their works. No other patient could handle it, but Kise thought:
– No, the south, now I’m here and I can’t contribute anything. I have to at least get something out of him that I can use as a journalist and I found it very exciting, he says. Then there was a career change, art took over.
– I am very happy to have made that decision, says the visual artist.
– What was decisive for you to become a visual artist?
– The real trigger was an artist who was inspired by his four-year-old son, and you could see it. I was not so impressed by the artwork, but she was shining and very happy. He said he knew his art made a difference in the world.
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Me too
– The feeling I had, I wanted it. So I thought: if she can call herself an artist, then well, I can also afford to spend time creating something. If she can make a difference with that, maybe I can make a difference too. That the damn thing I’m experiencing now can be used for something positive for others.
Kise describes herself as a girl as a pensive girl who walked and assimilated everything around her, from the nature of the people she knew, from the places where she was. During the holidays he did not go shopping, but to art exhibitions and museums.
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He bought his first work of art when he was 17 years old. The artistic training has been carried out through an apprenticeship with an artist, studies at the Fornebu art institute and many courses. From the beginning, he was happy to enroll in courses with experienced artists.
– I was a beginner, but it’s a position that I really like. So you have everything to learn and nothing to lose, says the visual artist. It started with non-figurative paintings, but became increasingly classical figurative.
Tight
– But it got too tight, so I started with etchings and colographs, to free myself from my own need for control, and then go back to painting a bit.
Nature and the sea are important to Kise. She says she’s very inspired by the details and the stories, which she then translates onto canvas.
– I have an idea and then I don’t understand it at all, or I understand it more and more, but then I destroy it. Every time!
– So there will be many self-negatives?
– No! And that’s the point, because then you must not stop, but continue. And if you continue, that’s when it’s art. This is also the case with the art of living, says an enthusiastic interviewee.
Besides being a visual artist, Kise is also a lecturer, but in the crown year 2020, there haven’t been many lectures. He draws on the lecture topics from his own experiences.
For all it’s worth
– It’s about accepting what happens in life and turning it into something constructive, and I use my story for all it is worth if it can give something to others. I can’t say I get tired of it, but I get really tired and I can’t do this too much, says Kise. He also develops television shows. The negative becomes the positive.
– I have the brain tumor, but I didn’t give up. I thought I needed to develop this further, and then it will be magical. But I’m not thankful that I got sick, and especially not because my kids experienced it.
– You seem like an indomitable optimist, or is it just a facade on the outside?
– No, you might think I am. At the same time, you must allow yourself to have both in it. It is one of the things I talk about, it is not enough to think positively, you also have to think negatively to be complete. I’ve called it the tyranny of positivity, says Kise. She elaborates:
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Worst
– Everyone, from doctors, teachers and neighbors, told me that “it is going very well. As long as you think positive, you will recover faster.” That is the worst thing you can say to a person lying down. If you do not get an outlet for the negative It doesn’t help to think positive.
– I think that makes people sick longer, because it becomes embarrassing to be sick. You are not good enough to recover. The worst feeling one can have is not being good enough to be good enough.
– Can you imagine going back to the TV screen full time?
– I don’t want to choose. I am a visual artist, speaker, presenter, and journalist. I write too, so I might as well get a book.
Jump in it
– And what is the advice for others who want to change careers?
– Jump, bite your teeth together! It can sound a bit clichéd when something goes wrong, like in my life. But it’s amazing how far you go, Kise replies. She is concerned that the most important learning often occurs by doing things. Traditional education is not always the best.
– To budding journalists who have asked me over the years, I have told them that as long as they get a job, take the jobs. The moment you can’t get a job, take an education. Nothing compares to work experience in this industry and many with a journalism education never get a job as a journalist because they lack experience.
– And then you have to be open to following new paths. I was going to be a foreign correspondent for NRK, I was absolutely sure of that, that was my plan. But there was more and more entertainment and I am happy about that. The path is created by walking and enriches life, admits the visual artist.
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