When 57-year-old Finn Hausager became unemployed, he chose to try out the consultant role – it led him
for his dream job at the North Jutland space company GomSpace, where he is currently permanently employed.

“In the end, it was silly to keep extending my contract, so we changed it to a permanent position,”

This is according to Finn Hausager, who since 2020 has developed and tested hardware electronics at the satellite manufacturer GomSpace. First as a freelance consultant for Homatic for two years and then as a permanent employee.

GomSpace is a long-standing partner of Homatic, and when they needed an expert in antennas, Homatic was given the task of finding a consultant.

“I had become unemployed at that time and was considering what should happen next. And then Homatic showed up on LinkedIn with exactly the place I wanted to be,” says Finn Hausager.

However, the consultant role was unfamiliar, as Finn Hausager had only had permanent employment since he completed his engineering degree specializing in telecommunications at Aalborg University in 1988. It was especially the uncertainty of the fixed-term project employment that worried him:

“It could be stressful when a project period was nearing its end and a new contract had to be renegotiated. Could I continue? Would there be other tasks elsewhere? You also have no safety net in the event of termination, you do not earn any holiday and you have no insurance. An uncertainty that can only be compensated for by the higher earnings. Fortunately, it developed, the contracts were extended and I continued to sit in the same place.”

Great freedom

A number of other unfamiliar tasks also came with having a CVR number. VAT accounting is not Finn Hausager’s core competence. His advice to others who are considering the life of a consultant is therefore as follows:

“You have to do what you’re good at and leave it to others to take care of the tasks you’re not so good at. Otherwise, you will spend too much time on it. My accounting is not that complicated, but even though there are not many items, there is still a lot of hassle with it.”

Once these considerations have been made, Finn Hausager believes that the consultant path offers many opportunities and a great deal of freedom. He is very pleased with the place where he has landed:

“The tasks are exactly within my field of interest. There are good colleagues and a good canteen. Then you can’t complain,” says the engineer with a laugh.