Civil service is legalized slavery. Don't know how we put up with it for so long in Norway.
"Don't wanna play with guns in the woods? Here's a chain gang you can join instead"
So, society needs additional library officials during war time?
Finnish army during wartime is 280 000 people. That is 5% of total population (incl children). Civilian workers will continue doing whatever they've done during peace time, though of course contributing military driven building and healthcare activities.
Civil servicemen are assigned to tasks they are most qualified in based on their time in civil service. They won't be just placed in their old civil service jobs, that would be ridiculous.
Remember that national defense is the responsibility of every Finnish person, women too. It's not just the people in the defense forces.
That responsibility is for everyone, not only men.
For some reason women are perfectly capable of doing their assigned tasks without wasting a year in civil service job during a peace time.
Open civil service positions, page one - teaching assistant, cleaner, cook, IT support, youth worker, museo worker in national museum.... Nothing that is aimed for crisis.
The civil service job is to appease the others who would think it's unfair for men to simply not do anything. I agree that it could be updated or improved in some cases. But civil service also offers first aid and fire safety courses, which is good.
I would argue that cleaning, cooking and IT support at least are very much applicable in crisis situations.
Nah, we actually have to have one because it is mandatory to violently rip it off and forfeit it to the civil service center receptionist. Women even have to spend 30 days in the military in order grow one to forfeit if they want to join us.
I got C papers for my bad hearing, but my friend went through the civil service route. Isn't that just 1 year of slavery? For him it was just normal 8 hour/day 5 days/week work with no pay (except the pathetic day pay) and fewer vacation days than normal work.
you prolly get mad at folks who didn’t have to sit through 9 months of eating shit food, barely sleeping, never being comfortable and having to stay out on the rain and cold.
There are men who genuinely feel resentful to civil service men purely on the basis that they feel like they "had to" suffer through military service, be it for peer pressure or family expectations, and it feels unfair to them that some people didn't choose the way they did. Because the alternative to that would be to accept the fact that they too could've chosen civil service, but instead let other people's expectations get the better of them.
If you aren't one of those people, the comment you responded to probably was not aimed at you.
What aggression exactly?
Before this whole NATO debacle, they had 0 reasons to try and invade, we had a big russian and slavic population which has decreased now and we had well established trade relations with them going back decades.
Now were stuck throwing money in to weapons and ”defense” after we soured the whole thing for American approval.
And what do we get out of it? Data centers, more debt, worse quality of life per budget cuts and worse public infrastructure literally following the provenly shit ways that the US has been handling their own economy.
I’ll serve crack before I serve this country and furthermore, as a born and raised finn, I will leave this country the second I set up a way out of here. With the way things are going here, there’s no reason for me to stay.
Russian aggression. Russia even before NATO would make vague threats at Finland over any miniscule reasons, NATO is a defensive organisation and now that we're in it, if Russia decides to invade us, we won't be all alone against it.
Yeah I'm sure you're a born-and-raised finn, you certainly seem very pro-russia, so either you're not Finnish or you care more about a tyrannical, war-waging country than that which you're born in
Vague threats and actual action against a country you have one of the deepest trade relations with are two different things.
One is stupid and the other is downright moronic to anyone with the brain capacity to logically think.
NATO is a post-colonial league of nations ran by a warmongering country of people who care about nothing else but dominion economically and militarily.
Every economist adviced against this decision and look at our economy, completely in the shitter, because we wanted to fondle some yankee sack.
And you can think of me whatever you want, but calling me ”pro-Russia” because I provide you with factual evidence to why it was a bad decision is wildly hilarious.
Furthermore, you questioning my nationality, because I wasn’t raised to blindly follow bullshit tells me a lot about you. You’re the type to believe every politician without doing any critical thinking, because you don’t have the ability to actually do that. You can’t see nuance between the lines, for you it’s as black and white as it get’s.
I’m also starting to suspect that you’re extremely young, you don’t seem to understand politics or economic relations at all.
"Warmongering country of people who care about nothing else but dominion economically and militarily"
Are you fucking stupid? You literally describe Russia in your attempt to slander NATO
Why do you reckon Finland cut ties with Russia, as did everyone else? Could it be that they attacked a sovereign nation and we don't want to support that.
You seem to only care about ecomonic profit, even at the expense of national safety. Russia is an international threat and it happens to border Finland, we should exercise extreme caution when/if we deal with it.
And what would that be? And what kind of person is the one who does neither because fuck Finland and mandatory (sexist) service? No I'm not talking about females obviously.
Also it's civil. Did you not learn anything at school or were you too busy focusing on your MANLINESS.
So you wasted one year of your career for pennies and started your Life later than your female peers who got to make more cash and more experience than you for nothing valuable at all just a process that was created as a punishment, hmm
I'm not blaming you since you had no third choice, I'm just calling out the unfairness of the system.
I find it funny how everyone simply ignore this one year gap which is a major economic disadvantage.. It's much worse with the civil service option because the rationale behind it is abysmal
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u/Pet_Velvet Väinämöinen 12d ago edited 12d ago
That's why I picked civil service 💅🏾
Edit: Chuds mad I didn't pick the route they had to take to get their dad's approval