A guy looking for a "SUMMER JOB!"

sujehsa · Post by **sujehsa** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:20 pm

This is sujan from nepal. Its been around 9 months i came in finland and so far i haven't found any nice job. Infact, i have done some works in cleanig companies and done some seasonal works as well but they are all underpaid and jobs that don't make you feel that you are secured financially!
So, here i am, a 21 year old young man looking desparetely for a job!
i have good experience in housecleaning, office cleaning, baby sitting as i have done some training back in my home country as well!
I can do fruit picking jobs as well as i am from an agricultural country.
So if anyone sees me as a potential worker then plz send me a reply!

regards,
Sujan Shakya

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rinso · Post by **rinso** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:25 pm

fruit picking jobs

That's an other type of job that's underpaid and that don't make you feel that you are secured financially!

At least you seem to find jobs, that's more than some foreigners here can say.

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:46 pm

As long as you are "employable" legally here... how about all those Nepalese restaurants... the "one original" "one best original" ... or is it you are wrong family and its racism and xenophobia (giggle) that you need to be independent? And you do not say *where* you at either?

sujehsa · Post by **sujehsa** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:09 pm

rinso wrote:
fruit picking jobs
That's an other type of job that's underpaid and that don't make you feel that you are secured financially!

At least you seem to find jobs, that's more than some foreigners here can say.

yeah but what else could u do if u're not finding any job? everywhere i go, i just hear rejections and i am sick of it! it's too much for me now! so i am ready to do the job which is atleast underpaid!

I have heard that one can earn quite good money in those fruit picking jobs? Do u have any experience or do u know anything abt that?

sujehsa · Post by **sujehsa** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:12 pm

Hank W. wrote:As long as you are "employable" legally here... how about all those Nepalese restaurants... the "one original" "one best original" ... or is it you are wrong family and its racism and xenophobia (giggle) that you need to be independent? And you do not say *where* you at either?

People who own restaurants here prefer their own relatives or their near ones!.. so that they can be underpaid and get maximum benifits from them!
i have hyginepassi, first aid card and occupational safety card as well ! but neither of them work!
even fellow countrymen try to stab u from the back! wat else cud u do at that moment?

rinso · Post by **rinso** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:09 pm

I have heard that one can earn quite good money in those fruit picking jobs? Do u have any experience or do u know anything abt that?

I heard that farmers in the countryside sometimes let the fruit rot on the fields, because selling won't bring enough money to cover the costs. I'm sure it's not a golden business.

vincebel · Post by **vincebel** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:12 am

btw how do you say fruit picking in finnish? i spent 2 years doing this in Australia so i guess im quite good. I know there are some contract jobs, opposite to hourly paid jobs.

sujehsa · Post by **sujehsa** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:45 pm

vincebel wrote:btw how do you say fruit picking in finnish? i spent 2 years doing this in Australia so i guess im quite good. I know there are some contract jobs, opposite to hourly paid jobs.

hedelmä hakku is the finnish word. but i think its wont be easy even if u hav large experience bcoz farmers here dont know english at all. so finnish language is the only way out
BTW where r u from?

vincebel · Post by **vincebel** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:17 pm

im from belgium but spent the last two years in Australia doing fruit picking and backpacking

EP · Post by EP » Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:33 pm

hedelmä hakku is the finnish word

No, hedelmänpoiminta is the word. But it a bit too broad expression because the only fruit there are to pick are apples. Biggest apple gardens are in south-east around Lohja.

But berry farmers need thousands of pickers in July-August. For example here: http://personal.inet.fi/yhdistys/ssmy/inenglish.htm And then there are companies that need people who pick wild berries from forests. Last couple of years they have imported rice farmers from from Thailand to do the job. For example this one: http://www.riitanherkku.fi/

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