tummansininen wrote:The other option is to come here without a visa, as a tourist. You can stay 6 months without one.
Well that would be stupid since tourist cant work, agreement between australia and finland allows "work holiday" where you can work, with some restrictions, for year. IIRC you dont have to have work before you come but you can do work in 1 year if you manage to get one. You have to prove you can support yourself even without job tho. IIRC in australia time per employee is limited to 3 months but i dont know about finland.
And no there is no "have to prove" stuff for work holiday, they are like locals what law cares. Time is limited etc so you have to return when time is up etc.
Its "special" agreement so youth from both countries can come and familiarize oneself with other culture while making some money by menial jobs.
In autumn you can get lot of money from berry/mushroom picking, its not a job since its totally free for all and tax free. Just go to forest and pick and sell, check everyman right in finland. There is strawberry/etc farms who could hire you too but those arent fun. Its hard work and there is possibility that you dont earn much but anyway. In worst case scenario you have to pay to pick berries.
By "arent fun" i mean they have pickers from countries where even ridiculously low pay mean they do half or one year worth of money by picking few months. I would pick 12 hours a day/7 days of week/nonstop if i earned that much.
In winter you should be in lapland where native english is appreciated but you probably need finnish too in most places since finns do speak english and its "exotic" so tourists like our "rally english".
Do you speak russian/chinese/japanese? Well even if not we do have lot of tourists from english world.
