Arbeit macht frei!

A couple of days ago was the day that I´ve been waiting for a long time. It was my last flight for my current employer. It was a short night flight to Karachi and back but it was still extremely hard to motivate myself for the flight. I even considered taking a sick day. That´s how tough it was to go to work. But as I´ve never taken a sick day without being sick I decided to stay professional until the end and go on the flight. The flight was uneventful and I stayed as professional as possible. No pranks with colleagues, no foul language towards the passengers. Even though I´ve said to myself many times that on my last day I will let it all out to any complaining and difficult passenger. Afterwards I was happy that I did the flight so that I could end this chapter in a good way. Now I´m spending the last week here arranging the last few things before moving back home beginning of September.


Will I miss my job? No not the job itself but the nice and funny people I got to work with is one of the few things I will miss. I will definitely not miss the flights departing at 3am and getting back at noon. I will though miss the discounted business class tickets.
Will I miss the country and the city? Yes I will miss wearing shorts and flip flops all year around. I will also miss the weather in winter which is close to a European summer. I can always come back on holiday but I will never move back. Never say never but yes I will still say never.

So what will I do next? Well the plan as for now is to do as little as possible for the next few months. If I get bored of doing “nothing” only then will I start thinking of what to do next in life. But as for now I need to catch up on all the sleep I missed on for the last 6 years.

So now for the first time in 6 years I can say that I feel completely free and I also feel happy for the first time in a very long time.


Some things from the last 6 years:

-Had two major food poisonings. One in Zürich and one in Luanda Angola.

-Witnessed one cardiac arrest

-One bird strike.
No there wasn´t a group of birds that went on a strike. If a bird flies into the engine it´s called a bird strike.

-Hundreds of passenger complaints but only a few good feedbacks from passengers

-I´ve done around 800 flights which make 800 take off´s and 800 landings.

-Visited places I would otherwise probably never have visited: Luanda Angola, Lagos Nigeria, Calcutta India, Accra Ghana, Tripoli Libya, Manila Philippines

-Crossed the North Pole once.

-Never had any very famous people onboard. Except for some Bollywood actors but they don´t count.

-Have learnt how to speak fluent Indian

-Spent hundreds of layover dinners with colleagues from over hundred different countries

-Spent several days off in bed or on the couch doing nothing

-Several sleepless nights due to the odd departure times

-Many many flight delays but only 2 cancellations

- Met a lot of annoying people. Started disliking many nationalities (including my own nationality) due to bad public behaviour.

-Got robbed by gunpoint


This is something that I listen to a lot lately..

My car is on it´s way to Finland now

Det här hitta jag idag

Det är roligt vad allt man kan hitta när man går igenom sina saker inför en flytt.När jag gick igenom mina saker idag så hitta jag en lapp som jag har skrivit för några år sedan tror jag. Kan någon vänligen förklara åt mig vad jag kan ha menat med detta!? Jag har ingen fans aning varför jag har skrivit ner detta...

Att ett sånt här ställe har de satt min mamma på..

I have a new Idol

One of the world´s best neurosurgeons Juha Hernesniemi.

If you understand finnish language then check out his extremely interesting interview by Maarit Tastula.