Shoestrings Still Cost Money!
With the economic crisis still raging and unemployment still rising, the prospect of getting a job was looking pretty bleak. Add to that my lack of work experience, no driving licence and poor spoken Swedish and you've got next to no job prospects. Nevertheless I've been applying for jobs, mostly online, for a couple of months. Right in the beginning of my searching, through some family connections I got some peacework at a building site. Well it was more like an oversized jigsaw puzzle actually - it was a 200 odd year old log house that someone had taken down up north, labelling all the pieces, to be reassembled pretty close to where I live. So my job was basically to run around the site carrying log 14A here and a sack of moss over there - the bottom of the rung work (not that I'm complaining, well my back did a bit but anyway I'm grateful for the work!). "Wait. A sack of moss?" I hear you ask. Yes moss, the same moss you're thin...