When you forget how happy you actually are…
Appreciation is often forgotten. To focus on good things, we should be thankful for and remember them more often. Keeping in mind that what we have at the momen...
Tag: immigration
When I moved to Finland, it felt like there was a match
I met Gulja in person exactly once. During a hot summer day in June 2021, when we agreed to meet to record the interview for this article. Before that, we had m...
How I finally become employed again…
I was career orientated back in Slovakia. Always having 2 jobs, continuously studying and having clear aims how my work-related future would look like. But then...
It may be strange, but in my head, I reduced people to muscles…
Vendula Fischerova has had two professions. The first one was psychology and the other one is being a masseur. She moved to Finland from The Czech Republic a li...
When you are not part of the majority, you kind of feel the need to do something about representation
I met Yesmith almost a year ago at a panel discussion organized by Helsingin työväenopisto and Miitti on the topic of employment of immigrants with higher educa...
I had to forget who I was and what I did in the Czech Republic…
I met Vendula thanks to our children attending the same school and same class. Not only they can speak Slovak together, we were also lucky enough to become frie...