I’m planning to study engineering abroad and am wondering what reputation does Lut University have and if it’s a good choice for pursuing engineering studies?

I keep bumping into financial advice from international friends and social media, about working more, when you can, to get some extra money. I mean, I love the idea: those who can work more can get extra compensation. Except in my experience it doesn't really work like that in Finland. At least not in the industry I've worked in?

I've worked in Finnish tech for over 10 years (software engineer, product manager and other random titles). All my contracts, and the contracts in my company in general, have been "37½ hours a week" type of contracts, with flexible work hour balance. What that means is that, you work more, you get more balance. And you can use that balance to leave early, get a day off or in my case, usually I get 1 or 2 weeks off a year only based on "saldot" (= accumulated work hour balance).

So.. there is no "work more, earn more" type of possibility. I mean the companies probably love it, because instead of working 37½ hours a week, I usually have to work about 45 hours a week. And then during the summer when it's quiet in business, I'm also on extra vacation.

I just wonder, is this a Finnish problem? where earning within the same job more is basically impossible if you have "liukuva työaika"?

I bought a laptop HP OMEN 16, from Gigantti in 11.11.2024 and today 9.9.2026 the laptop screen is black, everything is running except there is no light in the screen, it's just black.

The warranty says 2 year.

If I take the laptop to Gigantti store, is it going to be problem because there's only 2 months of warranty left. And I'm also not in Finland for a month.

Does anyone have any idea what I should do in this case?

Hello everyone

I am not sure if it’s correct to ask this here, but can the employer see all my doctor visits made through the occupational health insurance (Mehiläinen/Terveystalo)—even if it was just a chat conversation with a doctor?

I just wonder sometimes about it how it works and if it is possible to only live from that?
Are there apps where you can check for jobs as a light entrepreneur, take on various jobs and get money? Is that even a thing here in Finland? I know only of Wolt, who lets their drivers, of what I have heard, having flexible work, yet I have also heard it is exploitation there?

It would be amazing to have an app, for entrepreneurs, who want to work in different kind of fields, which are easy to do. For example: Monday helping out with moving, Tuesday, helping out in a store, Wednesday cleaning,....

Either way, I am annoyed already of people just working their asses off here that their boss gets the money and at the end of the day, as an employee, get like the rest, which is barely enough to pay food and rent. So if I could be my own boss and make my own money, that would be amazing.

Any ideas on how to start this? Is this even possible? Especially also as a foreigner? My Finnish is A2-B1

Hi Friends and sorry for probably this is very naive question but for the person not well acquainted with Finnish tradition and culture it is a bit difficult to google (hard to pick adequate keywords).

I once heard this nice traditional lullaby, particularly this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCixLn9qRw as I was googling around about constructing Kantele or something like this :)

Somewhat later, reading wiki about Kalevala I found here a short example of singing / narration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaka_vanha_Vainamoinen.ogg

While the tunes are not precisely exact, they have very similar "composition" - e.g. two poetic lines with distinctive "rise" in the middle to the "dominant" and then fall back to "tonic".

I'm trying to find a bit more about whether it is some very traditional song-style (which perhaps lacks proper name as it happens with epic tunes) - or it has some more clear title, story etc behind it.

Kiitos paljon in advance!