Learn Hardcore Icelandic: Okkur finnst gott að hafa stöðuga vinnu, þó að starfið sé stundum erfitt. - We find it good to have stable work, although the job is sometimes difficult.

Breakdown of Okkur finnst gott að hafa stöðuga vinnu, þó að starfið sé stundum erfitt.

Why is it okkur and not við at the beginning of the sentence?

In Icelandic, the verb finnast works impersonally and takes a dative experiencer.

With finnast, the person who “feels / thinks / finds” something is put in the dative:

So okkur is required here because the verb demands the dative case.

Why is the verb finnst (3rd person singular) and not finnum (1st person plural)?

Although okkur refers to “we”, it is not the grammatical subject; it is a dative experiencer.

The construction with finnast is grammatically like:

So the logical pattern is:

Because the hidden subject is this dummy það (“it”), the verb stays in 3rd person singular: finnst, not finnum.