Do you mean the 80% of mean salary thing, for permanent recedency? Self-support is probably a weird traslation. Self sufficient is probably the meaning. That you don’t need monetary support.

After some really quick checking i would say fastest safest way (to get permanent recedency) is probably study permit, look for work during studying with an employer open to up your hours once your studies are over. So you can get a work permit. And before you known it 4 years have passed you can apply for permanent residence. One more year then apply for citizenship.

Edit: since you said you were open to studying

Edit 2: you probably already knew all this. If so read this as someone trying support your decision rather than some rando on the interwebs over splaining.

I’m not in or associated with that Union but, what I could find is that they have some prerequisites that need to be met in order to be eligible to join.

According to their statutes :

"211 Rätt till medlemskap i förbundet har den som har avlagt ingenjörsexamen omfattande minst 180 högskolepoäng vid svensk högskola eller den som har likvärdig utländsk examen och har svensk anknytning. Förbundsstyrelsen får efter särskild prövning bevilja annan person "

English translation: “211 The right to membership of the association is granted to those who have completed an engineering degree of at least 180 credits at a Swedish university or to those who hold an equivalent foreign degree and are Swedish-affiliated. The Federal Administration may, after special examination, grant other person”

My interpretation of that clause; is that if you reside in Sweden and work here, you should be eligible to be a member. But that’s not for me to decide.

They refer all questions to their contact form and welcome all questions regarding becoming a member, but ask that its done through the contact form. Could only find the contact form page in swedish.

Hope this helps.

https://www.sverigesingenjorer.se/hjalp-kontakt/kontakta-oss/

Edit: you of course also have to have an engineering degree minimum 180 swedish university points or equivalent.

Well depending on the size of the organisation and the nature of the work. You either hire a temp or balance the team/workload for the vacation time. As an example; in Sweden, it is mandated by law that workers have the right to take 4 consecutive weeks between June 1 and august 31. So as long as the team is no smaller than 3 you should only have to balance or extend time frames for work during this period. Even if the work is qualified.

There is something referred to as a industry vacation here as well. Its when a factory just shuts all production for 4 weeks and everybody goes on vacation at the same time.

Do note, that you don’t have to take 4 of your 5-6 weeks of payed vacation during this time. But you have the right to.

Every year the employer has until first of April to schedule, plan and approve all vacation for the summer.

Hope that helps. If you have more questions I’ll gladly answer them. I’m a union man and have negotiated quite a few vacation plans.

I refer to the short, quickstep with pants around the ankles, walk to where the toilet rolls are stored. As the shuffle of shame.