“If you’re not into school, ski and soccer, you are labeled as an outsider”, says Anders. He got bored at school, and a new school reform demanded more than he was willing to offer. Subjects he had lost out on had to be redone the following year, and there were many subjects that did not interest him.
Young men who drop out of school are defined as a problem in Norway. Still Anders refuses to take on any negative stereotype as a looser.
He has been working on engines and cars since he was a kid, and this passion has given him solid knowledge. He simply claims there must be more ways to recognition than following the setup of the Norwegian school system.
Anders lives in Kirkenes, where he is working as a process operator in the iron-ore mine Sydvaranger Gruve AS. Before this he had several different jobs in technical professions, despite the fact that he never finished high school.
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