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Eddy:
Hello. I'm Eddy. I'm 25 years old and I'm a globemaker.

When I was a child, my father always insisted that I looked at maps and looked at globes to learn about the world. I discovered Bellaby & Co, the company I work for, whilst I was searching online for more creative opportunities. I applied for an apprenticeship and I spent six months learning how to make a globe. We are one of the only company that creates handcrafted globes from start to finish and we create a representation of the world in three dimensional space.

The globe can change from a terrestrial, so the world we live in, and the celestial, which shows all the stars in the sky. In this job, I get to combine my passion for travel as well as my passion for creativity. I spend my days cutting segments of map, which we call gores, and then applying them onto a sphere, making sure that it's nice and smooth and that everything aligns. Working on such a small version of the world demonstrates how truly large it really is.

So the subjects that have come in very useful in my career are Maths, because as globemakers we need to calculate the circumference of a sphere, and of course Geography, for understanding where everything in the world is. There are many people involved in the process of making globes such as the cartographers who make the map, the globemakers who apply the map onto a sphere, the painters who colour it in and, of course, the woodworkers, who create the bases the globe will go on.

Eddy's boss:
Eddy is an amazing employee. He's really committed. He's got an incredible attention to detail. We have quite a small team here and it's really important that everyone gets on really well and Eddy is definitely one of the people that keeps everyone with a smile on their face.

Eddy:
I really love my work because, not only do I make the world, but also I get to hold the whole world in my hands.