Mathias Wahlund worked at a restaurant in the large shopping center which is right next to the Norwegian border.
Last year, the mall had almost five million visitors, today it echoes empty.
When the border opened for a while last autumn, Mathias Wahlund was offered a job at a candy store.
- I saw a small light in the tunnel but then I heard that the infection started to increase again and so the manager called from the candy store and said: "sorry, I hope you understand".
And I said, "I see, you can not help it, thank you anyway," he says.
"Feeling rude"
Now he keeps in touch with the employment service via mobile phone, all contact is made digitally and looking for a job, even if it sometimes takes over.
- You feel almost rude when looking for a job today, when you know that the employer is struggling to get the company to go around, he says.
It is only just over a year since he graduated as a chef, but he has already started thinking about retraining.
Right now, everything feels very insecure.
- Sooner or later, cooks will be needed, there are roadside taverns and but it feels like my education of three years is in vain, that I did it unnecessarily.
That's how it feels now, he says.