Kos, year 2
Another season in Greece comes to an end. Just as all my previous season, both here and in Turkey, it is an intense experience, emotionally. It teaches you a little bit more about yourself every time.
My biggest bad point is that I got the comment that I did not look as having as much fun as last year. Something that might be right, but I cannot feel that I have had less fun. However I think this is partly because of my involvement in SHIP the last 6 month. It was quite an exhausting period, and I think it took a lot more energy then I like to admit.
Härarbete
I have also experienced “härarbete” in a real way. It took a while to take off, as it took more then 3 weeks to get my new computer (which I am really happy with). But now I have starting using Ubuntu, and getting things done from here is no problem. Biggest drawback is the ability to talk over telephone – there are no really good quite spots here to talk on, so it is always a little bothersome.
Compared with Sweden, I spend about as much time with “office work” as back home. There are some complications, most related to that the files are on the old computer, and that I do not have a fixed office, but otherwise it works surprisingly well. Would I have been here longer it would all be about setting the right routines.
DJ
Professionally I have also come a long way as a DJ. This year is a lot of different, music wise, then last year. But I really do feel I do a lot of a better job and I have really enjoyed it. I have also been offered to play in Norway next May, through one of the former employees here. Nothing sure if it materialises, but it would be fun to visit everybody in Oslo for one week.
Some other good acquaintances have been made as well, some of which maybe lead to big new projects for me in the future. But that will only time tell. Needles to say, the biggest lessons from here is that good people can be found everywhere, and just by acting in an honest way yourself, you will find them and you will inspire each other.
But now it is almost finished, and I will miss being an employee when I get back to Sweden. It is really good, as a boss, to be an employee from time to time – you can learn a lot about leadership just by being subjected to it.