Inspired by my good friend Hairy Swede of Welcome to Sweden, I decided to write a moving and living in Sweden series. My tale is about finding a job, finding a place, getting a work visa on my own. I did not have the luxury of EU or Swedish citizenship or a Swedish boyfriend to give me easy entry into Sweden. Instead, I arrived as a well educated, skills based employee in Sweden. And yes, it is possible to find a job in Stockholm. The road is not easy; it is as Robert Frost put it, a road much less traveled. Below is the list of articles I will post over the next couple months. The links are not live yet, but as each article posts, I will highlight the links here.
Living in Sweden: Finding a Job
Living in Sweden: Writing a CV and Going for a Job Interview
Find an Apartment in Sweden
Living in Sweden: English Bookstores
Living in Sweden: What to take to Sweden
Living in Sweden: Dress Like a Swede
Living in Sweden: Swedish Employment Benefits
Living in Sweden: Swedish Holidays or Red Days
Living in Sweden: Learning the Swedish Language
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (1915)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Good luck! I’m looking forward to reading about it and comparing experience with my own. Shouldn’t be too positive reading, though :)
I’ll follow you.
Good luck! :)
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