Question for the Finnish lads

[Nj]

Terve,
Would any of you have any links to websites that might have jobs in Finland for English speakers? Looks like I might be moving back with my wife and son in the future and I'd like to start looking to see what's available. She's fine because she speaks good Finnish but i'm.. er.... perkele. I studied for a year in Oulu and my wife's parents live in Kajaani. Ideally we'd be aiming for Oulu or somewhere not too far from Helsinki but it just depends on what work I can find.

kiipis

Noel

[quattro20v]

http://mol.fi/mol/en/index.jsp

On this page you can look for jobs. You may need help from your wife cos the page where you choose what kind of jobs you are after is in finnish.

Ot. Still no snow in helsinki

[silizium]

http://international.monster.co.uk/

[dm80]

Thought yer missus was Russianski?

[s2driveruk]

Moi!

i might be able to help Noel, few friends from my Sonera days i still chat with....i'll PM you later if i can get hold of them online...
Kiipis,
David

[Nj]

thanks lads
quattro20v - still no snow in helsinki? is it as bad as last year then?
silizium - I really should have found that one myself. oops. thanks.
derek - she is a ruski but we both studied in finland, her famy is in finland and frankly there's no frigging way i'm moving to russia. that's like trading in your S2 for a corsa!
David - amazing. Didn't know you had a finnish connection. Sonera or Nokia would be ideal cos I have a media technology degree with business experience (yawn). I'd be happy shoveling snow (if there is any) or something these days cos i'm fed up with the corporate world. Maybe Helsinki needs a scottish restaurant? Deep fried mars bar/pizza/black pudding anyone?

[dm80]

thanks lads
derek - she is a ruski but we both studied in finland, her famy is in finland and frankly there's no frigging way i'm moving to russia. that's like trading in your S2 for a corsa!

Know what you mean - it's almost like spending the best part of a year doing up an S2 to get it on the road, and then moving country and selling it for a pittance ;-)

[S2central.net]

Funny... I'm fed up with corporate world too... Sigh....Maybe its a midlife crisis...

[repo]

It's kippis.

If You wish to get descent salary, try to get to papermill.

Although too strong paper union and their endless stream of strikes caused the papermills to close down for a month or two a few years ago. In the process they ended up pissing the big guys off with such a magnitude, they now are closing down every single papermill, they ever figure out a good excuse for, so it might not be _that_ easy to get a job from paper industry.

Still, a job that pays 2000 a month in steel mill, pays 3000 in papermill.

Ideally we'd be aiming for Oulu or somewhere not too far from Helsinki but it just depends on what work I can find.

Yes, Oulu is not that far from Helsinki, only 800km or so.

Don't worry, although there is no snow in Helsinki, there is plenty on hight of Oulu.

I wouldn't invest my savings to a restaurant, that sells black pudding in Helsinki, but people seem to like Molly Malone's, an Irish pub. Maybe You'd start to sell Scottsh beer. Finns love beer.

[Nj]

oops. yes my spelling isn't great is it?

paper mills eh? I didn't know that. I can't see me getting on too well in a paper mill not speaking finnish though. I'll probably have to stick with technology where the company uses mainly english.. like nokia.

I didn't mean that Oulu was near Helsinki by the way. I meant i'd like to leave near either Oulu or Helsinki.

Now Scottish beer in Helsinki is a great idea. Maybe a mix of scottish and irish? Guinness and haggis lunchtime special would surely be a success..

[Anagonda]

Er, move back to Finland? I just trying to find motivation to get my school over and then I can move to a warmer place.

Ok, Oulu is good place if you like cold weather and snow. And ofcourse you need a quattro to find some fun in that.

The salaries in Finland aint that great. In Helsinki the living costs about the same as in big european cities, but the salary isn't at that level. On the other hand in Oulu living is alot cheaper. Houses are cheap, and you can find very nice house with big yard. But then theres that cold weather. Atleast I hate it!

Ok, I found one more nice thing about Oulu. It's the midsummer. You can just sit by a lake all night and drink beer, it won't get dark by the nature. Booze will get it alot darker But there isn't a thing that is better than sitting by the lake and just drink "some" beer with friends.

So it's a deal? You will start a Irish pub in Helsinki and first two beers are on the house if you are a s2forum member? I might be there often speaking with my bad english

[Nj]

haha. yeah I have to say that if my wife's parents didn't live in Finland I might choose somewhere else. Although I really do like Finland. Every country has +s and -s. Sure, your face freezes in -20 degrees and you wonder if you'll ever smile again without the cold hurting your teeth but there are a lot of fun things to do in the snow (as you said you really need a quattro).
Summers really are the best. Beer - sauna - jump in a lake - back to sauna - more beer - jump in the lake - more beer - get confused - jump too early and land in the grass - stare at the sky - fall asleep without any idea what time it is. ahhh. sounds good.
Right - Scots-Irish pub in Helsinki it is. Free couple of beers to s2forum members as long as they help m fix my car when I leave the road and end up in the trees or up a moose's ****.
Maybe i'll just be an english teacher? Except most finns have better english than the brits. hehe. well, not really but I haven't met a Finn under 40 who doesn't speak amazing english.

right - i'm off to see if my wife would consider moving to Hawaii instead

[repo]

Heck, I'll be there for the beers. Won't fix Your Audi for free though. Just let us know the date of grand opening. I promise to suprize You how many beers a Finn can swallow without passing out. Although, I hate Guinness...

And no one can afford an Audi in Finland (*, thanks to car tax, so I think that's taken care of already.

*) Exception: Turkish PitsaKebab-joint-workers. They don't pay taxes...

[Nj]

haha. no problem. I'll have to bring some British beer though. I don't like Lapin Kulta that much. sorry.