For the last week I was sent to the Western clinic of Vantaa city's drug services as a substitute for the janitor who had gotten sick, only after one week from the start of my service.
Previous posts you might want to check out if you're not familiar with what the civil service is about:
My Civil Service #2 - First week in the education center - The worst is already behind
My Civil Service #3 - The civil service center in the middle of a peaceful countryside
My Civil Service #4 - Mindfully increasing my life saving skills
As I explained in the previous post (My Civil Service #7 - First week in the work service) I was thrown into my job with only one week of introduction to the job description from the standing janitor in the Eastern clinic which is my "home base".
The job is quite simple: receiving clients and answering phone calls, along other miscellaneous tasks, like buying or fixing random small stuff. The phone calls were the exact thing I had had no first hand experience; I had only followed my instructive janitor on it.
When jumping alone to the job in the new Western clinic my co-workers were very supportive: they told me not to take any pressure and ask them for help any time I needed. And indeed, there was nothing to stress about as I quickly picked up the rhythm for the occasional phone calls. The whole week in the work went peacefully with my chores and some writing on the side as sometimes there's simply nothing to do than to just sit and wait, and to look outside the window of passing trains and pedestrians under the drifting clouds and airplanes landing to the airport nearby.
The scenery from my working room, not that bad of a view. The view was quite pleasing to let my eyes rest looking to the distance. And looking to distance is actually very good thing to do at times for it relaxes strained eyes from the constant looking of close screens. I've noticed my eyes getting "lazy" when looking to distance after prolonged watching of a close target. But after a moment of relaxing my eyes in the scenery my vision gets from blurry to sharp again and my eyes gain the focus to the distance.
Unexpectedly we got the first snow already in October in the Helsinki Metropolitan area so the scenery changed completely after one night. Though the snow is only temporary as the temperature won't yet stay consistently under 0 Celsius.
So, remember to relax and maybe have a look at the sky!
Oh, and I got a big thank you from my principal chief for keeping the building running; hard to function if there's no one connecting the phone calls to the workers ;)