A person with drive who rarely sits still, but continually finds new projects, often almost before the last one is finished. He is happiest when he can see progress so is often on the lookout for challenges. In between studies he has worked part-time as a sound technician and at a timber yard as a sawmill worker and truck driver. He has completed his military service and worked in the Swedish armed forces abroad, has a Master Mariner degree from Kalmar Maritime Academy and experience from many types of ship in the merchant navy, is a voluntary Sea Rescuer for the Stockholm Sea Rescue Service and currently works as chief officer on the sail ship T/S Alva, a sail training schooner operating between Sweden and the Canary Islands.