As a relatively fresh graduate from the University of Helsinki, I was fortunate enough to be able to secure a job in my chosen career relatively quickly. Here, for your entertainment, are a few things I’ve learned so far.
All in Life
I spent the last year in Glasgow, Scotland on a university exchange. I wanted to share some questions I’ve frequently gotten about spending time abroad. I’m hoping this will give you some insight on how being on an exchange is like.
I Was Wrong About…Vegetarianism
When it comes to one person trying to change the world, well, sure, one person alone can’t make much of a difference. But it all starts when each one person individually makes the decision to change, right?
I was wrong about... Jyväskylä
In September, I moved from the Helsinki metropolitan area to Jyväskylä in Central Finland. To add to my normal moving angst, all kinds of small town girl nightmares were running through my mind. I mean every small town in Finland is the same, right?
The saga of my job hunt continues and, boy, has this been a long journey. You know that feeling when you’ve written an insane amount of applications and they all start to blur together until you have no clue where you’ve sent your papers? I do.
Confessions of a dreamer turned opportunist
For many a job in the creative field, be it photography, screenwriting or clay animation, is the dream. Earnestly chasing THE dream, and then having the success story featured in a chic online publication--possibly the height of accomplishment. My dream has been to write.
During our spring break this year a friend and I, a pair full of wanderlust, decided to go for an adventure around Italy. The country is popular with the backpackers and tourists, and it’s hard to imagine how much more jam-packed it can get in the summer heat when the holiday season actually starts.
Good Times – and Places – in Scotland
In March I took a semi-spontaneous trip to Scotland with a bunch of friends. We had decided to go in a fit of late night wanderlust after a night of some university partying about a month before. The great thing about it was that we actually ended up executing this plan, conceived after midnight and a few glasses of wine!
Vietnam, June 2015 - The walk from the street-seller to the hotel took only ten minutes. Or it would have. Walk straight ahead and turn left, you can’t get lost, I had told myself. Sometimes I undermine my lack of sense of direction.
As my Master’s Degree studies are coming to their end, I find myself continuously searching for jobs and internships. As an attempt to create something out of this bottomless well of misery and anguish, I decided to journal my endeavors. May they be of help – or warning – to all those following in my footsteps.