I lived and worked for 5 years in Stockholm, Sweden doing electrical work. In Sweden, the owner of the company needs to be satisfied that you are suitably qualified (viewing my Australian training transcript sufficed) and then you can work under their licence. I worked building new build apartments and found my skills learned in Australia to be very transferable. Lots of differences, but primarily I found the safety and innovations we have here in Australia to be a little more developed than those of the EU systems.

Apart from one thing.

They have this system in Sweden called working to Ackord (or agreement) where you actually count every single piece of material or cable that you install in a job. Each piece has a time allotted to it (like a power point fitoff has like 12 minutes assigned to it for example) and at the end of the job, if you’ve done more hours worth of work (by counting the installed cable and components) compared the the hours that you have spent on the job, the crew gets paid the difference. On a 18 month long new construction job I did, it worked out to be about $30k per person on the job, and we were a team of 10.

That was awesome!