Geir resigns director job to become a teacher in Lofoten – Avisa Nordland

Geir Bakkevoll (38) has resigned from his job as Director of Communications at the Norwegian Seafood Council.

It writes Nord24.

The job he has held since February when its predecessor Christian Chramer notified transition to NHO, but Bakkevoll previously substitute a year in the role.

The position is one of the most important in the communications industry in North -Norge, and entails a lot of traveling to distant climes.

After three years in the Seafood Council elects Bakkevoll to terminate this to make a total career change:

– I shall be Norwegian teacher. In Western Lofoten high school at Leknes, he tells Nord24.

Bakkevoll, who is originally from Vesterålen, says he now makes reality of a lifelong dream.

– I have a Norwegian education that for many years I’ve wanted to spend on education. This is a dream I’ve had a long time. Now open up a vacancy and when I took the step. Sometimes one must choose whether the dream will remain a dream or whether to let it become reality, he said.

– Such choices suit never

Bakkevoll does not deny that it is sad to leave both seafood Council and Tromsø city.

– It suits never take such a choice. Moving from Tromsø and my colleagues in Seafood Council is very sad. It’s like donating half a heart and a kidney. Nevertheless, I want a life where I leave something with grief and look forward to something else with excitement, he said.

Bakkevoll insists that there is no disagreement or dissatisfaction in the workplace that makes him now choose to leave Seafood Council.

– No, not at all. Seafood Council is a great place to work with an incredible number of colleagues. I know that I am giving up on a really exciting job and move from a delightful city, he said.

– Living well with teacher salaries

– You know you go to a lifetime of lower wages, try correcting the evenings and stacks with special assignments every spring?

– Haha! I realize that many people think this is a special election. But I’m burning for Norwegian art and has always done so. The subject is the study of how people use literature to express ourselves when we lack words for how we really are. For example, we seized in the period after July 22 for something Nordahl Grieg wrote in 1936, and use Ole Paus his poems to help us to express something that was happening in our own soul. Working with transferring this cultural capital to the next generation is something I find very interesting, answer Bakkevoll, before adding:

– And teacher salary I live well with. Money is not everything.

For now, Bakkevoll standing job at Seafood Council, even though the school year at Western Lofoten high school starts over the weekend.

– There is not totally nailed when I start the job, but it gets the autumn, he said.

– Students get the fun

Before Bakkevoll starts in the Norwegian Seafood Council, he worked for Apeland Communication.

Terje Martinussen, CEO of Seafood Council, it seems a pity that Bakkevoll continues.

– He has done a super job and we would like to see that he was with on. But he has chosen to follow a lifelong dream, and we have great respect for his election, says Martinussen to Nord24.

At the same time points out Martinussen that Bakkevoll goes from one important job to another.

– Norwegian subject is incredibly important, and one of the subjects I have the most valuable in my career. We need skilled Norwegian teachers and Geir will undoubtedly be a good teacher. I think students get the blast, said Sjømatråd boss.