Meet the people

25 years of smoking and now periodontitis — quitting has never gone beyond the attempts.

Likes the warehouse, but failed two subjects — is retaking them on his own worth it?

A year and a half overdue on her master's — the more pressure, the more paralyzed.

52-year-old maintenance technician who has worked for the local council for 24 years, married with two adult children, on sick leave for almost three months with a painful lower back, and hates feeling like a burden.

57-year-old man who has tried gym memberships, diets and good resolutions many times before, but who now feels his belief that he can succeed starting to fail.

55-year-old man who has been told by his doctor to eat more healthily, loves good food and sweets, and is unsure where to start in a busy everyday life.

52-year-old man who was referred to rehabilitation after a heart attack three months ago, and who still smokes despite pressure from his doctor and family.

Shows up because he has to — a mandatory meeting to keep his benefit.

A 21-year-old man who lives at home with his parents, has turned his days and nights around and fills his days with video games while his friends move on with jobs and lives of their own.

A 47-year-old man, formerly an electrician and carpenter for twenty years before the back problems started, who has been in and out of the system for ten years and meets you with resistance and distrust.

Says yes to everything and pins nothing to a date. Pictures how it goes wrong, in detail.

31-year-old man with an engineering degree from his home country that isn't recognized here, in a program to get into work and looking for a way into working life.

42-year-old engineer, recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, who works a lot and sits still a lot, and who is now trying to turn the illness into a project he manages himself.

The system's goal and hers point in different directions – do you dare to be honest about the constraints?

Motivated for work, but doubts whether he can manage it again

A 45-year-old woman who worked in retail for over twenty years, from sales assistant to assistant manager, until wear and burnout made her body say stop and she had to leave the job.

Three abandoned programs and a vocational qualification he talks about as if it's settled. Good with his hands, tired of not counting.

43-year-old man, former foreman at a mechanical workshop for over twenty years, who learned early that a man sorts things out himself — now on his way back after anxiety and depression.

34-year-old woman who always showed up at work and took an extra shift whenever someone asked, but who now lives with a rheumatic illness with both good and bad days.

23-year-old woman who is living with her parents again, and who after a year of therapy and steady routines now feels healthier, on her way back from depression and anxiety.