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#100 We’re Going to Have a Meeting About the Meeting

Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
#100 We’re Going to Have a Meeting About the Meeting
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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?

#54 I Was Told There Would be Snow

Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
#54 I Was Told There Would be Snow
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Jenny, from Costa Rica, talks about the mild winter this year, the troubles of finding a job in another country,...

#44 Turn at the Robot

On this week’s expat podcast episode, Samantha, from South Africa, runs Stockholm Girl Gone International, an online group for expat...

It’s melting!

The snow is melting today and it’s just a big slush of muddy roads and giant slabs of ice falling...

A passion for chainsaws

These job ads get more specific every day. Today’s copywriting ad states that they would prefer an applicant who is...

Stakeholders

Every time I read a job ad that includes any mention of “stakeholders,” I just think of an angry mob...

Advancement of our civilization

Sometimes I think about the hard-working farmers hundreds of years ago, constantly working the land to feed the family and...

Chores

Sometimes my husband and I wonder what our kids might say to a therapist when they get older. Last week,...

Passive aggressive

I used to be in charge of the fruit basket at a previous job. Then they asked someone else to...

Southeast Texas job tips

While watching TV in Southeast Texas, there was a public service commercial to help people get jobs through handy job...

My life as a lab rat

I’m starting to easily understand the old story of Alexander Fleming leaving an experiment over a long weekend and discovering...

Am I too cynical?

I have to read food news for my job. The headline for one said, “Make your own cheese with only...

Coffee Cow

A few summers ago as we were relaxing at a Swedish “beach,” a man came around wearing a white backpack...

A magical word

“förnämliga” That is the word I had to translate the other day (I work part-time translating documents from Swedish to...

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Not my neighborhood

Today I got lost on my way to work and ended up in front of the Latvian Embassy.

Is it just me?

I’m currently sitting at work in my winter coat.  Normally I sit in the next room with a portable heater...

87.5 and not one minute more!

Sweden is great because sometimes you can get 50% jobs as well as 75% jobs.  It works out well especially...

Deciphering job ads

I’m looking for something part-time to supplement my translating work.  I like the ads that are straight and to the...

Now hiring – secret agents

It’s that time of year again when I keep an eye out for extra jobs.  Today’s favorite was “German agent...