Malcolm from Sydney, Australia, gives us some tips on how to reinvent ourselves when starting over in a new country. Also, why do Swedes need so many meetings?
Jenny, from Costa Rica, talks about the mild winter this year, the troubles of finding a job in another country,...
On this week’s expat podcast episode, Samantha, from South Africa, runs Stockholm Girl Gone International, an online group for expat...
The snow is melting today and it’s just a big slush of muddy roads and giant slabs of ice falling...
These job ads get more specific every day. Today’s copywriting ad states that they would prefer an applicant who is...
Every time I read a job ad that includes any mention of “stakeholders,” I just think of an angry mob...
Sometimes I think about the hard-working farmers hundreds of years ago, constantly working the land to feed the family and...
Sometimes my husband and I wonder what our kids might say to a therapist when they get older. Last week,...
I used to be in charge of the fruit basket at a previous job. Then they asked someone else to...
While watching TV in Southeast Texas, there was a public service commercial to help people get jobs through handy job...
I’m starting to easily understand the old story of Alexander Fleming leaving an experiment over a long weekend and discovering...
Yes, we take a lot of trips. At the moment, we are in Paris. You may say, “How come you...
I have to read food news for my job. The headline for one said, “Make your own cheese with only...
A few summers ago as we were relaxing at a Swedish “beach,” a man came around wearing a white backpack...
“förnämliga” That is the word I had to translate the other day (I work part-time translating documents from Swedish to...
Today I got lost on my way to work and ended up in front of the Latvian Embassy.
I’m currently sitting at work in my winter coat. Normally I sit in the next room with a portable heater...
Sweden is great because sometimes you can get 50% jobs as well as 75% jobs. It works out well especially...
I’m looking for something part-time to supplement my translating work. I like the ads that are straight and to the...
It’s that time of year again when I keep an eye out for extra jobs. Today’s favorite was “German agent...
