I'll just say it: Honestly the only reason for the historical artifact is that 1000km board with Russia. It's always the same: "we need enough men to prevent a potential attack from Russia being to costly to do", or something along those lines with the main argument of preemptively preventing any possible attack.
That's tough on young people to force them into something they may not agree with..
Well, at least there's civil service for people like me who don't want to support such institution. And I get some daily and food money, large chunk of which I get to save and invest into crypto or purchase myself something useful because I live with my parents who largely provide the necessary expenses of living. So, could be worse.
Only thing still bit iffy is that it lasts 347 days, as long as the longest serving time in military. Sure, military is harder bla bla and such but usually what mostly matters in the decision making is how long they are "locked up" in duty as DAYS. That's why most people go to military and try get away with 6 months (minimum serving time). But the serving time isn't even fully in the hands of draftees and they might be forced into something they don't want to do.
Wow, that's all news to me, at least there was the civil service option like you say.. I suppose in one way it does give you valuable work experience, and everyone has to do it, so everyone should be equipped with at least a basic skill-set for the world of work.. For me though, I really don't like to be told what to do, so I would struggle with having to do something because someone told me I had to... It's a good point too about the border you share with Russia. Given, the lessons of fairly recent history Finland obviously needs to protect itself, regardless of how likely or unlikely any sort of action is..
Yeah, even though it is forced work you can always learn from it. But the funny thing is that usually I literally don't have tasks for the whole work day but I still have to be there for 7h 51 minutes because of, I don't know, reasons? Some stupid law? The civil service law actually says that the minimum working hours weekly is 36 which would make 6 hours a day. But I'm nonetheless treated as "equal" when I'm actually not.
Sorry about the ranting; sometimes things just make little sense to me. Anyway, the quality of the service very much depends on the place one gets (which is chosen and applied by the servant himself). But the best thing about the whole service was the 30-day education period where we learned stuff like CPR, initial firefighting and lot of other interesting stuff.
In my work service I've now gotten into helping with an intoxicant prevention program. I get to tutor kids and discuss about these things through a story we tell them so it's not all too grim. That's actually way more valuable experience than what I regularly do; archiving, hoovering, repetitive stuff that I don't actually learn anything other than endure dullness.
Not ranting at all.. It's good that you are at least getting some use from it, like the CPR, which is a wonderful thing to know how to do.. You could save someomnes life some day.. Your involvement in the "intoxicant prevention program" is very commendable as well and you could again be helping save someones life here... The archiving and hoovering must be a pain in fairness, I would not like that either... It definitely beats being shouted at by some sergeant major though! :o)
Haha, definitely!