Working in Denmark. Or: Being drunk at work on a regular basis.

I find working in Denmark quite nice. They have a pretty flat hierarchy here, so the atmosphere in the office is generally very relaxed. I am even more lucky with my company because it's a pretty young start-up company and the whole thing is made up of my two bosses and currently 10 interns. It's a very young and very international team (from Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Romania, England, USA, Poland and Germany of course...more people from South America and Italy will join us on Monday, actually).

Our bosses consider themselves more like "our mentors" and repeatedly told us that it's them working for us, not the other way around. We basically sit in this completely new office space all day and do our thing and only when we're stuck with something we go and ask them to help with their expertise.

I learn a lot every day because I am being thrown in the cold water, so to speak. My official title would be "Maket Manager DACH", meaning I am solely responsible for the complete move into the German speaking countries. That includes everything from the very first market research over the contract negotiations and marketing campaigns, to customer care after the successful implementation in the new market. It's exciting.

So we work a lot. But those who work hard also party hard.
Another thing about working in Denmark is the traditional "Friday Bar" every company apparently has. That means on Friday we end work early (1 hour early) and sit down to drink a couple of beers (or wine) and sometimes have cake with everybody. We listen to music, chat, lounge on the new, super big couch and have fun. It's a super neat tradition, if you ask me. ;)


And in between we have those "team events" we hold in order to get closer. These are of course hold during the week (we end work about 2 hours early) and the next day we can come in about 2 hours later to nurse our hangovers. Where else in the world do you find a working environment like this? Certainly not in Germany or China, haha. ;)

For our first team event about 2 weeks ago we first had a private wine tasting at the office, for which the bosses bought about 8 different wines. Afterwards (yeah, maybe having smth in our stomachs before we try all the wine and get very tipsy would have been smart...XD) they cooked for us a really delicious meal of beef, potatoes, vegetables, salad and tiramisu for dessert. Then we went out for beers and cocktails at three different bars all over town. It was a really great night. =D

Wine tasting. With some great bread and olive oil.

Almost everybody, one is missing. Bosses are the fist two guys on the right, of course. ;)

Men in the kitchen. =D

So so so good this food!

Pretty far into the night at the first bar.

Another bar. I just loved this, haha.
That picture on the right says "Step aside coffee, this is a job for alcohol", in case you can't properly read it. :)

Ah, see our office space? It's so big and light and new. ♥ We just moved into it like 3 weeks ago and everything was renovated before, with new kitchen and everything. We're still working on getting some plants in there to make it look more homey, but I like it a lot! :)