FLASHBACK #47: New Apartment, New Job, New City

After the Scandinavian Extravanganza, I spend some time in the UK before returning to Finland to move into a new apartment in a new city and to start a new job. My new home was in Katajanokka, one of the most sought after areas of Helsinki.

My apartment was quite large (52 square metres) for my possessions, which had been collected from Tampere and delivered to the apartment whilst I had been away. It was silly, really, that I even had my own apartment anyway, especially as Bree and I had been together for more than a year and a half at this point. I suppose we just wanted to get used to living in the same city.

The new apartment was gorgeous, with a view of the sea from both the living room and bedroom windows. My former colleagues were so jealous when I emailed them photos of my new apartment and they all promised to come and visit! One great thing about the apartment was that it had a bathtub (a rarity in Finland), although the decor left alot to be desired, featuring wall tiles one would expect to see in an Imperialist Russian boudoir!

I started the new job on September 1st, having waited more than seven months since being offered the job to begin. You see, the project I was working on couldn't release any resources during the last crucial months so I had to serve a longer term to ensure that our output, as a team, didn't jeopardise any of the deadlines.

When I started working, everything was new; the workplace, the people, the processes, even the work itself. Things started off very slowly and it slowly emerged that I was going to be getting no support whatsoever, even though my new employers knew full well that I was currently undergoing a change of career within the same organisation.

So, in the beginning, the work was very challenging, but after a few weeks everything settled down. A new apartment, a new job and closer to Bree, who I saw practically everday.