I'm for change in my life and change in my job.
My Personal Spare Time Interests and Activities. My hobbies are paid by me and no-one else.
Movability on the employment market
Change benefit businesses and people in the long-term perspective.
Change
I'm for change in my life and change in my jobs.
Change is a tricky thing. The impact of a change may not show until years later and there is nothing you can do to speed things up.
Change is about patience and accepting the fact that over time changes will happen.
Once a change actually occurs, it can sometimes be impossible to change back.
Change is for those who have the patience to wait.
Change happens in small steps at a time over time regardless of what you are trying to change.
Change is often not accepted initially, and change begins long before it is visible to others.
Mathematical models for change effects often have no lag factor built in. Change effects can be something initially but completely different later.
People who get angry based on someone else's life changes have a life/work plan that has no room for flexibility or change and the plan has been set up without consulting everyone included, but change happens no matter what.
My priority will never be a secure job or workers unions. I will choose change whenever I can to find something new and interesting, I have no problem leaving a job or turn down everything in a company benefit package that doesn't appeal to me.
How your change will look like is up to you. Building a railway to a new destination, sail out into the unknown, close the door, open a door, walk away, race out on two wheels, ..., will all take you to different places.
Comfort zone
I have moved and resettled more than 15 times in my life. I have lived in different kinds of homes with different interiors. Relocations have been triggered by studies and new employment.
I have had more than 15 different employments with different employers.
Change has a price tag, a cost you have to pay every time. I don't mind the change or the cost, although I can't spend my money on luxury items. I consider change to be valuable than luxury items.
Change is a comfort zone for me. Today I live where I want to live and I'm not movable when it comes to my home, I'm movable when it comes to employers. A new employment is always interesting.
I have chosen to always invest in change: new technology, new jobs, new design, new architecture, new building standards, new fashion, home renovations, etc. and I'm not interested in old stuff, in old standards or in old designer objects.
I have always renovated every new home and always moved out before re-renovation of current home, none of it has been tax deductible since I moved out well past the legitimate tax reduction period. Tax-deductible terms have changed since then and will change again. Having a home based on my design has been more important than tax deductions. Today, I'm in re-renovations of my current home and not a new one. I have the home I always wanted and nothing lasts forever, every home will need TLC on a regular basis with or without tax reductions.
If you live a life based on tax deductions, you will not have any life or any home that's you and you don't know anything about life. I don't care about tax cuts and I use the ones that apply at the moment when applicable, I don't plan my life based on taxes. I.e. marriage and children can be beneficial from a tax point of view, and it comes with other benefits - I pay for all that with my taxes, but I don't get any of it. I expect everyone with an employment in Sweden to pay tax in Sweden, I also expect every business in Sweden to pay tax in Sweden. I don't believe in overpopulating the planet.
The oldest traditions of celebrating change
We celebrate change related to the sun twice a year: midwinter and midsummer on December 21st and June 21st.
Celebrating the change of the sun is one of the oldest existing traditions on earth.
Japan and South America celebrate the sun.
China and Asia celebrates new year somewhere in the end of January to the end of February, depending on when the full moon occurs in the rising sun.
Sweden has previously celebrated the New Year in March and 25 December, festivities in March are an old tradition celebrating new life. Today we celebrate the New Year on December 31 and it's a Roman import.
All our traditions have been imported and all old celebrations are related to the sun, the moon, new life and the harvest. They celebrate change and life based on the Universe and science.
It's time to skip all religious holidays and convert them into celebrations days open to be scheduled as everyone sees fit throughout the year. Stores and businesses can stay open or closed as they see fit. What to celebrate and when is a personal matter.
It's time to skip all religious Sundays and let everyone decide when to work and not work and all days of the week are equalized. If you are called in on your day off, you will be compensated regardless of the day. The weekly logistics is just a management issue.
Run over
I don't have a problem running over people when they put their interests first and try to force me in a direction that doesn't interest me.
It's hard to run people over if you don't accept change and you don't need any kind of vehicle, you just have to know what you want and don't want.
I have not always been anchored and rooted with a home and a job, but have always been anchored and rooted with who I am. If you are anchored in who you are, you are movable and open for change until you have seen what you want to see of the world and have found a place where you would like to stay.
Who I am may not suit everyone, but it suits me. My life is high in change, moderate in risk, low connection to work/people/things and no interest in politics/religion, all this on a personal level. If you're looking for high risk people, I don't fit your profile.
Change is included in each year with 4 seasons in the Nordic region. China is at the top with a cycle of 12 years with each year changing to something different. I'm interested in change on a personal level and not in any political level, politics is somethings that's completely different from individual people's lives.
Start of change
In all businesses, changes start with relocating board members and by time the relocation is climbing downwards until it hits the floor.
In politics hunting the top is used as a way to shoot people out. Hunting the top appears in offices with non-functioning teams. Shooting out the top doesn't solve the problems, but it will make everyone aware of the underlying problems.
If you are shot out don't take it personally, it's just a part of a problem solving and a way to find a solution to problems that are hard to be dealt with. If you aim for high positions in business or in politics and if you want to stay up there, learn to deal with the shootings.
The shootings are the reason why people in top positions have parachutes for soft landings, everyone lower down have to solve it somehow - themselves of with taxpayers' money.
Shooting out people is an ancient tradition, and it was called witch trials for a long time until we got aircrafts with catapults. Beloved things go under new names by time.
Someone who's shot out or relocated are either: reorganized within the business/office or they have been kicked out/fired. The terms used may vary within businesses/offices and different cultures, in this sense Swedish is a lot like the English language and the use of expressions are based on culture - you just have to be familiar with the Swedish terms used.
There is always the option that some will turn in their own relocation request, if they like to leave / they are requested to leave / they would like to have another job with the same employer / their employer has offered them another job. Who kicks who and who shoots who can be negotiable and a matter of who turns in the paper first.
There are Swedes who don't mind to be shot out, there are Swedes who do whatever it takes to not be shot out and there are those who put faith in themselves and jumps when they feel it's time to do so. Jumpers have a driving force of some kind, they appreciate change and they accept change no matter of how it's delivered. They all have different expectations on their employers and the state.
In a Swedish company, it is the highest hen that is usually the first to be shot out. Every company in Sweden has a highest hen on every level and the hen may be a man or a woman.
1. Those who don't mind being shot out would suit very well as managers.
2. Those who don't want to be shot out should not consider management positions.
3. Those who would like to jump will suit for short-term and temporary management positions, since permanent management positions will restrict their possibilities to jump whenever they like to do so.
4. Different open short-term and part-time positions should be on offer more frequently. People are different and they are open for different things.
The Swedish language is rich and alive and is well rooted in its culture, we should not lose our identity when we switch to English. It is up to all other English speakers to learn our culture and the language used and the meaning of the words.
I have studied English since fourth grade at school and I still don't know how the British fire people. The other foreign ways I know of are by the Italian Mafia in the USA in concrete and the Turkish silk string.
I grew up with something I don't know where it originates from or the cultural background, out through the nearest window - head first. It must have a relation to towers or tall buildings and it can originate from anywhere on this planet. The Swedes have developed it to just press a button and off they go with or without a parachute.
In Sweden, having children, bringing them up and taking care of them is not a matter between employer and employee, it is a matter between the Swedish state and the children's guardians. Every company's responsibility is the management of the company, it includes hiring and firing people and trusting they can take care of themselves and their family. A company isn't a substitute for the employees for lack of family or a family carer. If you need family support, turn to the Swedish state services.
If you want the employees to have time to prepare themselves before your arrival, have shoes that will announce your arrival. There is no need for any stilettos and flip-flops is OK in the summer months.
My rock will not end up in concrete and become terrazzo, they need smaller stones. Size matters. Another way to control loose small stones and gravel is to boil them in oil - Arabic asphalt.
You shouldn't embrace a foreign culture while learning a foreign language unless you plan to become a spy or emigrate there. You should stick to your own culture and vocabulary and learn to express it in a foreign language with an understanding that there will be cultural differences.
You cannot ask a temporary visitor to adapt to the culture, customs and traditions of a foreign country. Those who want to stay and settle in the country should adapt to the country's culture, customs and traditions.
Change
Change is an interest and a hobby. I'm interested in learning and acquiring new skills.
Life is more interesting when you change jobs every now and then than to stay employed. A new job offers opportunities to learn new things.
Even unemployment offers opportunities to learn something new.
I will not upgrade any of my hobbies to a future commercial level, it's up to the professionals to deliver the commercial future.
