Since January 2008 I’ve been working in Arbonaut Ltd. For the past weeks I’ve been doing forest inventory based on airbone laser scanning. I have to admit, I’ve really enjoyed it. The task itself but also Arbonaut as a working place. Although for the past few days there’s been more swearing words coming behind my desk than before. 
The work load at the moment is kinda huge and piling on my shoulders. Not that I’m really complaining because the work situation is tight for foresters in Finland and I can really do the job that I enjoy. Days are getting longer all the time (10 h is pretty normal…) as I’m trying to avoid the situation I had at the end of March: Deadline on the last day of March and the whole inventory undone two days before. 
And I’m not keen on having the same situation again
Although I’ve really enjoyed working in Arbonaut, I will leave in the end of May. I was offered a summer job at Stora Enso in Ruokolahti. It was a tough call but I have to take a chance and go and see what it is like to work there. It was my goal when I started to study forestry. Since the years went by, the goal and interests changed but I’m still interested in seeing what’s the work is like. Besides, I will be guiding the international visitors which is a really nice plus.
The studies are still unfinised and on hold. And they will be until next fall. My personal deadline will hold, though. I will graduate before I turn 25 years old so I have around 11 months time. So, I think I will return to Joensuu in the fall to finish up my studies then. It’s impossible to do it now because of all the work. But I don’t mind. The work experience is really valuable.
So that’s what is going on in my life. Work and sleeping, a little bit of exercise in between. I won’t give up on that now that I’ve finally go a spirit to do some!
