Fredrik Johansson is one out of many in my social sphere to have begun his life in the under-developed parts of Sweden, Rural Sweden. Carrying just a few possessions and the right mindset, Fredrik as a young writer fled Mariestad, pursuing The Stockholm Dream of a job in media, politics, consulting, or something else that makes one feel important. To flee tiny and cute Mariestad for a terra incognito tells at least some about determination. But wait – there is more.
When this young, ambitious boy with only some experience from farming in the family home and writing for the student paper and the local paper arrived to the communications industry of Stockholm, something very interesting happened. Yes, you laugh at his lack of past positions at the time and that he was just a guy with a simple hillbilly background. Well, maybe it’s you who lack the brain capacity to realize that farming and communications are basically the same and being from the countryside is a really great heritage if you want to become something in the latter. Both are simply about planting stuff. Oh boy, he does plant stuff. There are sparks and “bzzz”-sounds when Fredrik cuts through the energy field of communications and strategic counseling.
You know that sometimes when you take a countryside person and put him in a city there’s some sort of mutation happening and that person becomes even more urban than someone with an urban heritage is. That happened to Fredrik. When he came here he started working for the free market right-wing, became gay, interested in fashion, went to all these modern urban lifestyle kind of places, may it be restaurants, boutiques or bars. He did it all. This adaption says at least some about his strength – his ability to adjust and survive.
I’m writing this on a Sunday and, as you know, Sundays are not really a manifestation in structure and concentration and straight-forwardness. So that’s why this recommendation suffers from stringency shortage. Oh my god, you don’t even know where he works yet – 331 words later, and counting.
Today, Fredrik works for the government. To be more precise, he is working for a guy called Uffe or, more formally, Uffepuffe. Uffe (I’m a rather informal person) is the Minister for Social Security here in Sweden. As I understand, Fredrik is an architect or consiglieri behind Uffe and his interventions in social security. So it’s pretty qualified. And before that Fredrik has been on numerous qualified positions. He was once a trend analyst at United Minds. That’s how we met. We have also been to a right-wing training camp together. Fredrik has also been working for the right-wing think-tank Timbro, as I mentioned something about earlier on. He was also once a Special Advisor to the Moderate party in Stockholm. Cool stuff, and he has made it all at the age of 30, I believe his current age is. That tells a little more about determination.
So the young boy from the countryside, carrying just a few possessions and the right mind-set, turned out pretty fine after all. You should work with him, really.
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