Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Interpretation of Coronavirus Experiences, Their Meanings, and the Prospects of Young Finns in Education and the Labor Market in Lapland
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Well, here last year in the spring, I lost a work position in a café due to the situation, but I was lucky to find another job in a store, but in the summer and pretty much in the fall, I did what was planned, and they weren’t affected. For work, everything was all right in the end. …Social life has been cracking; you can see that people don’t care to come visit because there are a lot of tourists from the south, and the number of visitors has been decreasing, and now I haven’t seen friends as much; being in a group is in the past for the most part. And, like, evenings out and so on are clearly decreasing in my life too.(A 21-year-old female student applying for art education, interview in Lapland, April 2021, Maija, 21-year-old female student.)
2. Youth Studies of the Corona Effects
3. Youth Research in Exceptional Contexts
4. Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Research Framework
5. Research Findings
5.1. COVID-19 Experiences
Horizons of Young People
I came for the first time last season. I started in January. Was just looking for work here somewhere, wanted to go downhill skiing, I was in Helsinki. Then I just applied and decided to come this season. Now I have been here since November. …I got COVID here last year.(Maija, 21-year-old in Sport Shop.)
…Yeah. When we went, like, earlier. Around the time when we closed, in the apartment where I live, we all had COVID. I think there were 10 of us. …One day I had a very high fever and felt sick, but the next day I went to the arctic hills to cross-country ski. I didn’t have anything more than that. …I have been in quarantine already once this season. So, it has affected my life quite a lot, has changed how we do things normally …that you think about parents or grandparents. I’m not scared about it personally in any way, but I think about older people, and for them it’s a bit scary for sure.(Lauri, 26-year-old in Ski Rental Company.)
Well, I would say that it hasn’t really affected my life directly. I have a lot of hobbies that I can still do. A lot of the hobbies happen outside, like skiing and downhill skiing and other things like that. And in downhill skiing, it’s mostly in nature rather than the hills that are being maintained for it. And here, the number of friends is small anyway.(Ritva, 22-year-old in Ski Shop.)
…So, although it’s confusing, sometimes even feels wrong that life is going so well for me when others are struggling, and in cities it’s probably a completely different thing, but here it seems like life is going on, and then reading the news and being like, “oh no”. …but here you somehow feel that life goes on, and this gives opportunities for extensive action here; it also allows me to work on a flexible schedule …I’ve been able to do a lot of work remotely even before the coronavirus. It has been very important to allow yourself that freedom. Not so tied to time and place. That of course some things have to be taken care of carefully, and sometimes you have to be in a certain place, but in general.(Pekka, 27-year-old in Nature Center.)
Clearly, many young people, especially students, certainly have quite a lot of pressure and difficulty to complete school, and so a lot of content is shared through …that is gracious to yourself and try to take it easy at times.(Erkki, 21-year-old in Sport Shop.)
I’m also thinking about work stuff …that I’ve somehow built everything in my own life anyway, in such a way that it isn’t the end of the world, even if the work goes away. Or I have a rather optimistic way to think that everything will always be in order anyway. Well, now it’s going to go deep, but then there’s a lot of contemplation, so if it’s the end of the world tomorrow or something happens, you wouldn’t die, if there’s something I must regret, not really.(Pauli, 26-year-old in Ski and Hiking Centre.)
…on social media…Well, not very active. I have all the social medias, but I don’t really use them. …Well yeah, it’s been less active in the past few months, but sometimes something, checking in on others and updating my own things. Usually something related to the outdoors or being outside, I put a lot about what I do here …go in like seasons, like the last couple weeks I’ve been very quiet on social media, and at some point, there will be more content there again, but it’s also like, this is a cool picture, I should post this here.(Laura, 20-year-old in Ski Rental.)
It’s not a thing I must do, or that it would be a routine somehow, more just when I feel like it. …For example, making and producing a music video is quite a big thing, so in that industry, there should be a lot of work, especially if you know how to do it. Well, in the music industry, you just got to take your own path and know your thing, or pretty much on any career path, if you know how to do it well, there should be work, but now due to COVID, a lot more is done on social media, and it’s used much more, and for example, all arts are followed very much there…(Erkki, 21-year-old in Sport Corner.)
Well, yeah, through social media it has come through, at least to me, or it seems to me that the influencers have encouraged people and somehow help the people in this situation through social media.(Emma, 21-year-old in Sport Shop.)
5.2. Meanings for Coronavirus
5.2.1. Concerns
…Like, if my own finances are safe, it’s easier to breathe. …For example, my parents live in the south, so I always have to think if I can now go there, and I always take a COVID test before going anywhere further. There’s always a bit more organizing to be able to see friends. We are very close with our colleagues during free time, because we are in the same groups anyway. But if you go outside the bubble, you have to think about these restrictions and so on, so that you don’t risk others’ health. …Well, I have noticed that, for example, parents, even though they live in Joensuu, we can keep in touch remotely, and we have done Zoom meetings with the family. Even though we can’t always physically see each other, remotely works. For example, my grandparents make me worried. They have received the vaccine, but my grandfather. …He has had cancer and other things. …So I’m worried about that, and about my own career, that the work can end at any time.(Ritva, 22-year-old in Sport Shop.)
…A friend’s brother had COVID, and sadly my friend’s grandmother died from COVID, but her health was also very bad anyway, but it’s like …I don’t feel I’ve had a lot of contact with COVID. They’ve all been quite distant, for which I feel lucky. …It hasn’t affected my long-term goals.(Emma, 21-year-old in Sport Shop.)
5.2.2. Loneliness
I could have studied for five years without thinking if this is the correct field of work for me. …And now I have spent a lot of time on it, and I have been thinking if this is the correct career and this field of study is the one I like. …So, it’s, like, something that I can partly be happy about. So at least now, if I am here in Lapland, I would be happy to continue my studies, so I know my career is correct, and it’s a career that somehow COVID has shown that I can make a change with in the future …that I could work on a master’s degree maybe somewhere else and then graduate from somewhere else, because …Hopefully abroad. But of course, it’s not like …I don’t know how COVID will impact in the longer timeframe…I have learned to appreciate different things, that for example even though I have spent much more time alone and my number of close friends has degraded a lot, I know who the important people in my life are and who I really want to spend time with, and those are people I want to find time for daily, when …For example, you have an important hobby you can’t do due to COVID, now you’ve seen the impact of that hobby on mental health and …Yeah, just like being able to concretely think about the things you value in life, but…(Aino, 20-year-old student in Pizza Restaurant.)
5.2.3. Thoughts about Future
…When I was younger, getting closer to being an adult, I was dating for a longer time, and back then I was living more calmly and planning things in life more. I had different dreams, but now that I’ve lived here and have been free, that’s now even further away. The five-year plan is, like, that I want to do a lot of things and go abroad, etc., but after the five years, I am over 30 years old, 31, 32, and at that point it would probably be the time to think about the next moves. But now it’s not very present, and I am really excited about snowboarding, so if you don’t have that as a hobby, you won’t understand why someone must be there 150 days a year and go down the hills. And it’s more difficult to fit, and I don’t really want to compromise either, because everything seems good in life already.(Lauri, 26-year-old in Ski Rental Company.)
…well, last year when I came back from here, I was supposed to have work, etc., but all of that went away because of COVID, and I didn’t really find work, so I was unemployed last summer because of COVID. It does change [the plans for the future HH]. …Yeah, I was living with my parents. Here, I started off in a communal cabin, and one positive thing COVID has brought to me was that I was moved to an individual one, so I got a new cabin. I got a better cabin because of it. There is one positive thing. …Well, I have always been that type of person, that I have enjoyed sitting down, or just being an introvert, so I must admit that when there’s a lot of people, it feels like the walls are closing in and I can’t deal with it, I am too used to living like this, where no…Quarantine, the time, went with no problems. …I played games and watched movies and went outside a bit too.(Aatu, 20-year-old in Ski Rental Shop,)
Well, as for the near future, I have decided to spend the summer in Helsinki, where all my friends and family are, so I won’t go during the summer…again in the further future, this has made me think about my future career more realistically. That I feel like if it was a normal year, I am the type of person that would…I would have integrated into the student culture. …It would have pulled me in very strongly…which are things that you want to find time for in your daily life, because …Well, for example, if you have an important hobby that you couldn’t do because of COVID, you have noticed its effect on mental health already, and …Yeah, just like that, have been able to concretely think about one’s own morals, but…(Aino, 20-year-old student in Pizza Restaurant.)
[thinking about the future, HH] …it’s quite short-term, but I do have some kind of bigger picture in my mind, that there are different steps that you know or have some kind of picture where you want to be in 20 years, but it’s very foggy and on the higher level. But then otherwise, I don’t know. In my current work or other things, I don’t think ahead very much; now the plan is to work the next half a year and look again in the fall …for example, talking about working life, thinking about income, I have some accommodation services here …[name removed, HH]. I don’t know if I will live here myself at that point …but I want to, anyway, to have a place here in Finland, and in the upcoming five years I want to do as much downhill skiing as I can and go to the big mountains when I am still young and able, or at least think I am. I would like to challenge myself on that too. Then also balance it out, so that I also go ahead in my career, so that I don’t completely stop one thing or another. But the business mindset has been very strong for me, especially in the past; now I have been here for a couple of years, but after upper secondary school, I had a business for around four or five years. For the most part, it is what I will be doing mostly. It’s hard to imagine that someone would offer interesting and good careers, that I would jump into an office after this. So, here I have been very satisfied.(Pekka, 27-year-old in Nature Center.)
…of course, it’s related to my career too, climate change, that is. Now I think anyone who is around the same age as I am thinks of it at some level and is also scared of it. And COVID goes hand in hand with it, that the pandemics like that will become more common, but…I would say climate change is a good umbrella term for my biggest fear. The future dystopian scenarios are part of it, which I keep thinking about. Maybe the fear of not being enough, or can I somehow take part and make a big enough impact to make an actual change…that’s quite difficult too, because Finland is such a small country and the COVID situation has gone all right in Finland, but I don’t know if that’s because of the government actions or because we don’t have as many residents spreading COVID as much. In my opinion, or the only thing I wish from the government, not that it’s directly related to COVID but all decisions, is to have even more transparency in who makes the decisions and what the decisions are based on. And when there have been some conflicts in the decisions made by the government and…statements, you just want to know why they exist.(Ritva, 22-year-old in Sport Shop.)
…I have been thinking about it a lot, that if and when the borders open, everyone is going to be really excited about traveling. I would like to go traveling, but I also would like to do it the way where there’s the least possible amount of flying, for example. Or that you spend a long time in the one destination. I am a bit scared that now that the flights have been limited and their amounts reduced significantly, how will it go when there are more of them again, and overall, will the pointless wasteful consumption blow up again? I hope that it would still stay controlled…like last year, there were more things, like, about the water in Venetian canals, that the water was so clear that fish would swim in there again…or somewhere in China, they could see the sky again, because there’s been so much air pollution, that now when the borders open, if they open, it’ll make the Venetian canals go back to a horrible condition and the environment overall because of traveling, so yeah, but I mean, nothing really scares like that, but these are some of my worries.(Erkki, 21-year-old in Sport Corner.)
5.2.4. Concerns about Tourism in Lapland
The nature of Lapland…Well, it is a topic that is a bit worrying, where I personally, I see it this way, that it’s nice that the travel industry is growing and we are trying to make it more year-round and so on, but we should focus on making sure it’s built on a sustainable base. The difficulty is there, of course, that money matters a lot. And also, how far into the future we are looking.(Maija, 21-year-old in Sport Shop.)
…Sometimes, I mean, there is enough space and people coming, and there’s not really problems like that, but in the bigger picture I think we should think about that. It’s very hard to look 40 years into the future, to see how it will be here at that point. I am very bad at stressing out or being scared, I mean, I don’t take it personally or lose sleep thinking about these topics very easily. …I like that people have found Lapland and went there to go to the outdoors. …But for me, it feels like this winter there have been more people of my age than ever before downhill skiing and so on; a lot of people came here to work remotely. In a way, it’s quite fun, that when everything is closed and we are trying to be in contact with people as little as possible, for me it has been quite the opposite. For me it has been the most social winter here. It’s not that much, but usually you could’ve counted the number of people on one hand that you climb and ski down those hills with. Now, the group is twice that, maybe even three times in size. I feel like I have lived the way I wanted, and I feel like I am living the life.(Pekka, 27-year-old in Nature Center.)
5.3. Education and Work
…The time studying has been very…Or I have felt it as very heavy, but I also understand that a lot of people have it much worse. I have tried to somehow outsource the effect of COVID, and I understand that studying has been difficult because of COVID, and remote studying and so on; I have tried to not put as much pressure on myself because of it. …I have been here now since the beginning of February, and that wouldn’t have been possible for me without COVID, because I can now do some studies remotely from here, so…I don’t have any motivation to return…and somehow the negativity caused by COVID is somehow associated with it. …In the fall when the studies started, it was…you could organize some events, so you were able to integrate into the culture and socialize with the people at least a bit. And in that way, we have been lucky that we have very few students in our program, so we have been able to meet up with quite small groups, but during the winter…and there’s nothing in common…[everyone] studies remotely, so there is nothing like hanging out after the lecture, or going out for lunch, or…It requires a lot of initiative to keep in touch with the other students and…there hasn’t been time to form connections with the other people.(Aino, 21-year-old in Pizza restaturant.)
…that it would be nice to study something. I have had that option in my mind, that I would go back to school, but I am not in a hurry with it. More I would like to do it at the point when I actually find something I am truly interested in.(Laura, 20-year-old in Ski Rental.)
…Would it be a master’s degree? Possibly. In that I had realized that originally, I had thought of studying traveling first, and then I wanted to graduate as a Master of Marketing, because this is the field where I am, traveling marketing, but then I realized that with a Bachelor of Hospitality Management, I can’t apply directly for a master’s degree, so since then I haven’t been motivated to study, but I don’t know about the future. …I have always been bad at languages. It has always been a challenge for me. So, it’s funny that I am in the travel industry. Somehow, I end up with my own challenges in life. I have been thinking that I want to live abroad for a moment, because I have never taken part in a student exchange program or been abroad for a longer period of time, where I would need to survive in a foreign culture with a foreign language, so it would be interesting to take myself to experience some discomfort in that. Normally it’s not like, it feels like, that for a lot of people it would be just really cool to go abroad, and especially for younger people it feels like that everything is wrong in Finland and abroad things are better. I have never thought that way; I think it’s amazing to live and be here. But then at some point in my life, I wanted during the next five years to spend more time abroad and challenge myself…But of course, you can’t, like…You don’t know what COVID’s effect will be in the long term. I hope and believe that in the end it won’t be very much, so the travel restrictions will be lifted and so on. I haven’t…Well, at least my plans for the future haven’t changed a lot—at least for now.(Pekka, 27-year-old in Nature Center.)
6. Discussion
COVID-19 as a Transitional Time
7. Summary
Now is the best time to be here. Many other friends think that now I’ve got to finish school, then work, and then something else, and that now, I’ve just got to work. And personally, I find it funny, that life is just amazing all the time.(Lauri, 26-year-old in Ski Rental Company.)
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Helve, H.M. Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Interpretation of Coronavirus Experiences, Their Meanings, and the Prospects of Young Finns in Education and the Labor Market in Lapland. Societies 2022, 12, 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12040112
Helve HM. Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Interpretation of Coronavirus Experiences, Their Meanings, and the Prospects of Young Finns in Education and the Labor Market in Lapland. Societies. 2022; 12(4):112. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12040112
Chicago/Turabian StyleHelve, Helena Marketta. 2022. "Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Interpretation of Coronavirus Experiences, Their Meanings, and the Prospects of Young Finns in Education and the Labor Market in Lapland" Societies 12, no. 4: 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12040112