I had indeed expected that a long-term investor’s baking paper would have been pitch black and as greasy as the bottom of a cast iron pan after pork fat sauce 
Props, however, for tearing it - maybe too much paper goes to waste there 
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Usually I use pre-made sheets. Now I tried buying the cheapest tear-off model from the cheapest brand. The serrated edge on this is completely unusable. I state the same thing after every torn sheet, but I forget by the next time I tear one. I should cut them with scissors beforehand into suitable sized sheets, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. For now, I’m even utilizing these monstrosities, because the threshold for throwing a sheet away is too high, regardless of what the end result turns out to be each time.
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I don’t have any photographic material saved, but the frugal papers from my student days were exactly as you described. The same paper was used until it crumbled into disuse.
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Should the thread also discuss cling film and the serrated edge. A product manufactured in the secret backroom corners of Mordor’s deepest cellars
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Life is more fun with a little dyslexia:
Usually I use ready-made coffins…
Too bad I can’t participate as an experience expert and argue about the superiority of a serrated box, but I would gladly follow this discussion as well. Perhaps the Helsinki investor is thus preparing for July’s “relaxed Inderes meet-up in good company”. 
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This is a display piece and therefore it is particularly affordable:
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Now we were talking about those working full-time. And earned income doesn’t have to come from one basket. And I myself wouldn’t classify any job as a “crap job,” because every job is valuable work. I do understand your point, of course.
I also have personal experience with underemployment contracts. I once did private sector security work for several years with a salary of 10.72€/h, and in addition to that, private parking enforcement for 10€/h + commission, as well as moving and shelf-stocking jobs through a temporary staffing agency at the same time.
I have always been open to all kinds of work. We need more diligence in Finland so that we could save the remnants of our welfare society.
And I wouldn’t discriminate against entrepreneurs/employers, but rather the highly unequal taxation. How expensive an employee can be with their ancillary costs for an employer here in socialist Finland.
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https://keskustelut.inderes.fi/t/inderesin-kahvihuone-osa-10/59288/4720?u=sijoittaja-alokas
Ihmebantu has a lot of thought-provoking things and excellent contemplation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBH0vMq8MY&list=PLW1DdFqXtyQYqbtLy9zDTl5uXxYacAdzr&index=2
The serrated edge gives terrible cuts, and yet the cling film is still crumpled and still won’t come off the roll. 
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KELA defines full-time work as 30 hours a week. I couldn’t find any unambiguous definition contradicting this.
I myself have worked on a 30-hour contract, most of which were weeks with so-called full hours. Usually, the absence of work was announced the day before. With such an employment contract, it’s quite impossible for the company to motivate anyone to do more than the minimum, because diligence was rewarded with an unpaid day off. This was at the beginning of my career; nowadays, professional skills and experience have given me the luxury to choose my workplace. So, even in this field, you can get good jobs and earnings by being good. A career probably has to start with much more unpleasant jobs and low pay.
In my experience, working conditions and relationships have not improved, at least in warehouse jobs. Outsourcing, undermining of terms and benefits, and temporary agency work make up the majority. As little as the law allows is offered, but then they wonder why the worker doesn’t always give their all.
My favorite is the schemes of a major European logistics giant. There, warehouse workers are no longer even temporary agency workers but direct subcontractors. The subcontractor is always re-tendered approximately every four years, which cleverly restarts the contracts of the same warehouse workers from scratch, with new holidays and probationary periods. This way, they also don’t have to worry about broken musculoskeletal systems once they’ve been worn out. No money needs to be spent on ergonomics, so more stays on the bottom line. However, they paid enough that there were always people available. Working conditions are probably still not as bad as in the Middle East, so new arrivals don’t start complaining in the same way as pampered Finns. They are content with less, though in my opinion, this is not a cause for pride.
It goes without saying that the contracts offered here for full-time workers were 30 hours/week. I negotiated a 40-hour/week contract for myself, and for this, I even received a private phone call at home from my manager, who reminded me that employment contracts are private matters not to be discussed among colleagues. On my last day of work, I forgot my employment contract on the breakroom table. In retrospect, it would have been better to forget it there earlier.
In companies that treat workers well, there have always been almost queues of people willing to stay for overtime, and the general atmosphere and morale have been very high. The work pace is brisk, and goods remain intact, discrepancies are handled properly, and documentation is generally at a good level. In these, the pay has also been good.
Conversely, in places where the pay is minimal, tools are from the Soviet era and of that quality, and management operates with the old “management by perkele” method, the employer is sure to get just as little as they need to do. Mutual indifference is present every day.
When I started my career in 2005, my starting salary was the minimum according to the collective agreement (TES) for the food industry, i.e., €9.81 per hour. In today’s money, that’s €14.35, which isn’t enough to even get to the negotiating table with some employers due to too high a salary request. Some warehouse jobs, however, are such that you can’t really ask for much. Because just tossing boxes isn’t a very demanding job.
In some workplaces, I’ve also encountered quite a few union hardliners whose actions didn’t improve the working life of anyone doing more than the minimum. So I’m certainly not putting all the blame on employers. The head of a stevedoring company once cursed aloud that if stevedores believe the union will take care of everything for long enough, soon there will be nothing left to take care of. In recent years, they have indeed lost two major clients due to continuous strikes.
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Here are the largest boutiques in the United States by revenue. 
https://x.com/dividendology/status/1941505345337295039
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A truly comprehensive answer!
And for my part, I admit my mistake, I didn’t know that “KELA defines full-time work as 30 hours a week.”
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I’ve looked into this a bit.
The good thing is its location near the Kittilä gold mine and the Ikkari gold deposit. Both are in the order of millions of ounces. So, a lot. I wouldn’t get too excited about that 95 g/tonne hand sample; it’s just one piece of rock out of context. But those mechanical grab samples tell more, and they had a maximum of over 4 g/t, which is roughly the good grades of Agnico Eagle’s Kittilä mine, if I remember correctly. A friend apparently works at the company, so I might ask them sometime. Diamond drilling starts in August, waiting for that. I wouldn’t really invest very large sums myself yet, but this could turn out to be a good discovery.
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It was in this other thread, and there was also an interview with this artist.
https://keskustelut.inderes.fi/t/alokas-haastattelee/35425/789?u=sijoittaja-alokas
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I now see an incredible amount of necessary billable work and opportunities here. We could get mobile SAP consultants on the road to fix cars!
“Oh, now I just realized that you’ve indexed that radio channel completely wrong, and the engine got, like, a timeout.”
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The companies mentioned in the article, along with K2’s comments, have been hidden in Inderes’ threads.
It’s a good idea to start hunting in the Herantis Pharma and Nexstim threads.
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The market for unlisted companies is a great opportunity for investors – it offers growth, innovation, and fresh ideas. At the same time, however, investors using their own money face three significant challenges:
Abundance of capital: There is plenty of investment capital in the market, which often drives valuations sky-high.
Influence of public funds and institutions: The participation of large public entities in investment rounds artificially inflates valuations.
Oversupply of entrepreneurs, shortage of talent: In good market conditions, more new companies are founded than there are genuinely talented and capable growth entrepreneurs. This increases the risk of weaker investments.
Investing in unlisted companies therefore requires precision and a selective strategy – successful investors know how to distinguish genuine growth potential from just a good story.
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Looking for an employee again. Ad placed in Päijät-Häme and Kymenlaakso portals. Two days and a few applications. Both from Ukraine, Finns are not interested. Well, we’re used to this.
We’ll go with these, hopefully, I’ll get a good worker from the Ukrainian guy.
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You’ll probably get a better one than a Finnish wimp.
Hard-working Finnish workers are either entrepreneurs themselves or employed by others in long-term positions.
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Or else the salary is so low that Finns realize that going to work is not worth it.
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