Tuesday, December 3, 2013

They choose family and leisure over the profession - OBI Online

Occupation group consists mainly of men.

fishermen choose leisure, parent and ‘gullrekka’ rather than profession, writes forskning.no.

New attitudes in society means that the father should be far more involved in child rearing than before.

– There are few of the fishermen who leave, stating that they are being pushed out of the profession. They even chose to quit, says Professor Jahn Petter Johnsen at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, according to the website.

Along with colleague Jostein Vik, he asked 200 fishermen who have found a new profession, why they chose as they did. Occupation group consists mostly of men.

– It may be that the boat is sold, which causes him to sit down and take stock. Or that he incurred an injury that does the job is not as pleasurable anymore. So he thinks of leisure, the family, the wife who wants him to go to the parent, describes Johnsen forskning.no.

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