Selling sweets
I started working at a cake shop, patisserie last Monday.
After coming back to Japan from the trip, I looked for a job at an office. Nagoya where I live now is not like Tokyo, but here, we have Toyota and many other companies, so I didn’t imagine it’d be so hard to get a job. I looked for a job through some temporary employment agency. There’re plenty jobs and not many but some job require English ability (most of the jobs is to translate e-mails and Fax from branches all over the world). Well, I didn’t get any but a one-day, easy job once. That’s it. I know, I know, I’ve just graduated and I have no experience. Although I have worked for the institute and did volunteer/internship at an NPO, they’re not counted in as an experience since I didn’t get paid. I ended up at a cake shop and I sell cakes 9 hours a day 6 days a week.Fun, huh?
Before I finish school, I didn’t worry so much about my future job, but now I do. What can I do? How can I live in the future? (Marrying? No, it’s not an option. I never ever want to marry to survive. )Getting MA is nothing, nothing for a girl to get a job here or sometimes it works in worse way. How many times I was told in the interviews that I should work at another, better company if you’re from this good university? (It really disappointed me.) I was saying that I wanted to work with them. If they want to say they don’t need me, they should’ve said so!Some people may say to me everybody goes through similar things, not just me. Should I just shut up and hang in to survive in this society? I can’t. But I can’t blame it only on the society. It’s me who decided to depart from the “usual” way (it’s actually NOT unusual to go to graduate school) to live and work in the society. I know I may have to pay the penalty of it, so I have to work harder than others for what I wanna achieve and then to get a job. I often think these days of what I do after finishing grad school. If things allow me, I want to continue to study. Or if not, I’ll apply for associate expert to work for UNESCO (I’ll do so if I go on to Ph.D. anyways.). My friends say when I go to London, I’ll find, meet new people and opportunities. I agree. But there’s no guarantee that it’d happen, right? And since what I wanna do is so vague to find the way to do it and opportunity to do so is so limited. I can’t help being pessimistic..
So, what should I do now? What do I wanna do now?
While I sell cakes and cookies I’m asking myself the questions over and over again...
Boring...
After coming back to Japan from the trip, I looked for a job at an office. Nagoya where I live now is not like Tokyo, but here, we have Toyota and many other companies, so I didn’t imagine it’d be so hard to get a job. I looked for a job through some temporary employment agency. There’re plenty jobs and not many but some job require English ability (most of the jobs is to translate e-mails and Fax from branches all over the world). Well, I didn’t get any but a one-day, easy job once. That’s it. I know, I know, I’ve just graduated and I have no experience. Although I have worked for the institute and did volunteer/internship at an NPO, they’re not counted in as an experience since I didn’t get paid. I ended up at a cake shop and I sell cakes 9 hours a day 6 days a week.Fun, huh?
Before I finish school, I didn’t worry so much about my future job, but now I do. What can I do? How can I live in the future? (Marrying? No, it’s not an option. I never ever want to marry to survive. )Getting MA is nothing, nothing for a girl to get a job here or sometimes it works in worse way. How many times I was told in the interviews that I should work at another, better company if you’re from this good university? (It really disappointed me.) I was saying that I wanted to work with them. If they want to say they don’t need me, they should’ve said so!Some people may say to me everybody goes through similar things, not just me. Should I just shut up and hang in to survive in this society? I can’t. But I can’t blame it only on the society. It’s me who decided to depart from the “usual” way (it’s actually NOT unusual to go to graduate school) to live and work in the society. I know I may have to pay the penalty of it, so I have to work harder than others for what I wanna achieve and then to get a job. I often think these days of what I do after finishing grad school. If things allow me, I want to continue to study. Or if not, I’ll apply for associate expert to work for UNESCO (I’ll do so if I go on to Ph.D. anyways.). My friends say when I go to London, I’ll find, meet new people and opportunities. I agree. But there’s no guarantee that it’d happen, right? And since what I wanna do is so vague to find the way to do it and opportunity to do so is so limited. I can’t help being pessimistic..
So, what should I do now? What do I wanna do now?
While I sell cakes and cookies I’m asking myself the questions over and over again...
Boring...
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