Translated from 日本語 • View original I was worried before I got a job in my fourth year of university and became a member of society.
"When you join a company, there will be many things where you will have to bend your beliefs and obey reluctantly, and this will continue, and eventually you will become a completely different person from who you are now."
Even though I didn't know anything about society or the company I was joining, I thought that the company would ask me to be subordinate and that if I didn't follow it, I would be kicked out.
I couldn't imagine starting my own business, so I was afraid that if I was kicked out, I would die socially.
Before I joined the company
I say it myself, but I seem to have a rather confusing personality. Since I was a student, I have been told a lot by people around me, so I am aware of it.
You may be more particular about your own way of thinking and policies than others. Even now, I hate being instructed and ordered by people the most.
Rather than succeeding by doing what others tell you, you are the type to choose to fail by doing what you decide.
I was so afraid of going out into society.
Looking back now, I think that not knowing leads to fear.
The Reality of Joining the Company (After Five)
It was the early Heisei period. At the age of 22, I graduated from university and joined a company.
My anxiety was half right and half wrong.
The part that was hit was "unreasonable due to the relationship between seniors and juniors".
30 years ago, and it was a trading company. You can't imagine that there is no unreasonableness. Laughter
First of all, talk about things outside of work. I was prepared that there would be unreasonableness at the drinking party, but there were times when I clearly went too far.
I once took a junior who drank too much alcohol to the hospital.
However, for the sake of the company's honor, there were very few strange people. Most of the seniors were very good seniors. This is true.
The problem was that there was no atmosphere where people around me would scold such a strange alhara senior.
Later, I wonder how unreasonable drinking parties have become funny and fun memories, but it was hard at the time.
By the way, in my 20s, I almost never went out drinking with my seniors and paid for it.
Come to think of it, I went out drinking with someone from that company the other day, and they treated me up that time as well. The good old Showa era (!?) I don't hate the atmosphere.
The reality of joining the company (work)
And now it's the main topic of work.
When I listened to the stories of my peers around me, I often wondered, "Why am I being forced to do such meaningless work?" Such people were people from the so-called mainstream department.
The job is to maintain the business created by the great predecessors. Our predecessors may have gone through a blood-pumping chaos, but the work that maintains it is often not necessarily a job that individuals find rewarding.
I was lucky.
I was assigned to a department that was out of the main stream for the company. Since we were a trading company, we bought and sold things, but at that time, our department was a company that had no political relationship with suppliers or customers, so there was almost no order from the company to "do this here."
It was a job with freedom and responsibility.
With just one exception, I did a little work for a group company.
At that time, even if I and the person in charge of the group company talked and decided, if each other's bosses didn't like it, everything would be turned upside down and we would have to start over. I can't argue about what I think is right.
I don't really know what I'm working so hard for.
It was also at this time that I vaguely thought that if I continued to do this kind of work, I would eventually be unable to assert myself and would be domesticated by the company.
Let's get back to the story.
The department I was assigned to was a business that competed with one of our own arms.
There is no guarantee that such a business will continue, and when a problem arises, there is no way to solve it politically. The difficulty of continuing to establish it is high, and troubles are commonplace.
However, there was almost no unreasonableness in the company, so my mental health was extremely good. I was also lucky to be able to acquire skills that were not limited to that company.
At this point, I realized that I haven't gotten to the point yet. It's been a long time, so I'll write a sequel next week!
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