Working all over the world! Q: What type of job are you looking for? A: I am an outdoorsman and therefore I seek for an occupation that let me work somewhere I can feel wind on my face. I've tried cutting trees in Germany and I think this can be a good idea to hook up somewhere in Norway too. Q: What nationality are you? A: I'm from Poland - born and raised. Q: What languages do you speak (and at what level)? A: Hmm let's see: -polish (expert) -english (expert) -german (advanced) -spanish (advanced) Q: What country or area are you looking to work in and why? A: I have never been to Scandinavia and I really want to see it - so Norway and Sweden (Finland too, but I've heard there's much complications to get work if you're a foreigner). I DO like snow. Q: What field do you currently work in? A: Currently I'm freelancing - offering private tutoring with english and spanish in my hometown in Poland. Q: What fields have you worked in before? A: I was working for several years as bartender/waiter in some polish pub, while studing. Then I went on seasonal work with shipping tulips in Netheralnds. Except for that had a half year adventure with creating some browser game (MySQL database mostly). And two volunteering jobs - historical park in Germany (one year, gardening, building, lumbering) and organic farm helper (national park in Andalusia, Spain). Q: Which do you consider more valuable? Formal education or skills and why? A: Both are valuable but there's a proper time for acquiring each of them - I have been staying home with books while in elementary school, high school and college - learnt much this way, but now I want to try something different and convert all this theory I know into skills I want to posses and be proud of. Q: Describe the benefits of working with others A: Possibility of sharing thoughts/ideas and be able to learn faster this way. Not to mention the pure fun of work - I know a lot of jokes and they are always nicer to be told in group. Q: Describe the benefits of working alone A: Self-developement, that's it. You have a task to do and the result it the one that counts. How do you do is completely up to you and that makes you more creative. Besides - you are much more proud of that what you did if you haven't had any help. By the way - I like to focus on the thing I'm doing and it's much easier alone or in small group. Q: What was your worst working experience? A: Usually the only thing I'm complaining on is a too strict boss telling me HOW something needs to be done (mostly in a rude way). On the other hand, after finishing the job I always recall my ex-bosses with a smile, knowing their attitude and my patience somehow "upgraded me" - if something comes with toil is more valuable when you finally get it. Q: What is the most important lesson you have learnt throughout your career? A: Patience is the key. Seriously. Q: What unique skills do you have? A: Teaching languages I know and ease in learning new. Some technical skills and general understanding of kinetics, electricity, magnetism - the most useful physic laws in work. Survival - traveling backpacking way, hard way. I'm able to accustom to different working/living conditions without complaining. Computer skills - maintaining / operating / repairing. Databases, web design, AutoCAD, Office etc. Q: What would you consider as your 'dream job'? A: Maybe that's just an answer of a young man without his own family to take car of, but my dream job would need to be the one that changes with me - sometime I want to move to other place and it would need to move with me, other time I want to stay for a while and it must stay with me. As for now teaching languages - private tutoring without a long-term contract - is the closest to this requirements. But I'm still searching. Q: Tell us a short story about your life A: I was born in south-east Poland, small town close to the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine. In the same town I had all my studies - elementary, high and college. This staying here all the time and boredom all around made me hungry for seeing the rest of the world. I started slowly - first school trip abroad to Italy in high school. Then tough military training - 45 days spent on the opposite edge of Poland (still while in college). Later, a month in Netherlands, seasonal working with tulip seedling. Finally I finished all my studies and was free to do what I wanted - see more! Started with Germany - one year with 7 great people, living and working together around some old historical park in an international project organized by Jugendbauhutte, a German volunteering organization. But all that's good finally ends so I had to choose other way. Due to my friend's idea I decided to focus on visiting South America, but I needed one thing first - spanish. So I started my hitch-hiking trip to Spain which unexpectedly brought me to southern Turkey at first. Nevertheless, finally I was in Spain where I volunteered again, this time on organic farm - a perfect place for studying the language. Half a year there, another 3 months in other spanish town, where I was teaching english to the natives, and here I am - as usual trying to visit some new place, meet new people, learn new things. | 
