Kesäloma loppui ja alkoi viimeinen puserrus nykyisissä töissäni sekä metamorfoosi työnhakijaksi. Ainakin kirjoitusharjoitusta on saanut kiitettävästi kuluneiden vuosien aikana töiden myötä, nyt mitataan lähinnä sitä, vakuuttuvatko työnantajat osaamisestani, jotta pääsen haastatteluvaiheeseen. Myöskään paluu opiskelijaksi ei ole poissuljettu, varsinkin, jos innostun taas lähtemään ulkomaille. Suomen passilla pääsee useimpiin maihin.

The Finnish summer has not yet shown her best. It is raining and the temperature varies from near freezing to quite comfortable. This week does not matter, because I am still almost literally attached to the laptop. Next week will see some serious thoughts about the future.

The long-awaited but sadly too short Finnish summer is about to arrive. I am hoping to get more time to blog after the start of my annual vacation. The last few weeks have been quite busy as the autumn looms in the near future and my current fixed-term agreements are coming to an end.

In other words, if any interesting new jobs for an internationally-minded social scientist are available, let me know.  Any country will be considered.

We did a Google fight match with my internet entrepreneur friend Antti Vilpponen. Surprisingly, I did quite well. Antti beat me with quite a narrow margin. My political activities have been almost successful…if just in this sense. Quite comforting, or is it?