Chapter 12 Special Work

Otaru City is bordered by the Sea of ​​Japan to the north, Sapporo to the west, and surrounded by mountains on the back. It is a natural port city.

In the past, fisheries and coal mining were the pillar industries of Otaru City. However, with the progress of the times, the economic status of traditional industries in the country's overall economic structure has declined year by year. These two industries alone can no longer support the development of Otaru City, and it has to find other ways out.

Following the development of globalization and networking, the economy driven by tourism has become the first source of income for Otaru City in modern times.

This means that most of the current employment situation in Otaru City is related to the tourism industry.

Fujii Itsuki looked at job information on online recruitment platforms Indeed and Rikunabi, and when he arrived in the city, he went to the local labor bureau to ask the staff.

The job information obtained is mostly in hotels, restaurants, retail, telephone customer service and tour guide services, which are basically tourism service industries.

The hourly wage ranges from 1200 to 1400 yen.

Located in Sapporo.

We are only recruiting clerks who can use Excel and Word.

Fujii Itsuki's jaw dropped. This is too little.

In Tokyo, the starting hourly wage for clerks is 1700, while in Hokkaido or Sapporo, the starting wage is 1150.

Not to mention the jobs in Otaru, not only are there few jobs, but the minimum wage is also close to Hokkaido's 960.

This is worse than being a convenience store employee in Tokyo.

Fujii Itsuki calculated that if he applied for a clerk position, his monthly salary would be around 16 yen, with % tax and health insurance of around yen.
With a monthly salary of 16 yen, you only get less than 14 yen every month.

too low.
After deducting the 3 yen monthly rent, the 4 yen monthly food expenses if you save a little, and the several thousand yuan for commuting, how much money will be left?
Not to mention helping the welfare home, he doesn't even have enough money to spend if anything happens.

No wonder young people go to Sapporo or Tokyo all the time. The economy of Otaru cannot be compared with these two places.

He can do these jobs by himself, but currently he still needs to support the welfare home.
After careful consideration for a while, Fujii Itsuki gave up the idea of ​​doing these jobs.

When the staff at the Labor Bureau saw that he had graduated from Kyoto University, they suggested that he become a civil servant or a school teacher. The starting salary for external employment alone is over 25 yen.

Fujii Juichi asked what school it was and where it was.

As it turned out, the staff member’s answer was exactly the No. 1 High School in Jubei where the girl studied.

I wasted a whole morning and didn't get any useful information.

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Fujii Itsuki ate a bowl of ramen on the roadside and planned to go to the agency to have a look. They had more job information.

"Mr. Fujii?"

"Yes."

"You have good conditions and can work for a large company. Why are you only considering a monthly salary of 30?"

"If it's higher than 30, I will consider it if the conditions are right."

"Why do we have to consider Otaru? Can't Sapporo be considered?"

"It's still quite tiring to commute an hour every day. Of course, if the salary is good, it's not a bad idea to consider Sapporo."

"Is that so? OK, no problem. You have excellent qualifications and it won't be difficult for you to find a good job. Please fill out a detailed form, Mr. Fujii. Our company will pay close attention to jobs that are suitable for you, Mr. Fujii. We will call you as soon as we have any news. Please pay a deposit of 5 yen first."

".Your company registration information requires a deposit?!"

The employee of the agency smiled slowly and said, "If we don't find a job suitable for you, Mr. Fujii, our deposit will be fully refunded." Fujii Itsuki stood up and turned away.

"Mr. Fujii.!"

What the hell is this full refund? It’s fine if they find it, but if they can’t, they will definitely find ways to deduct the money.

Protecting rights requires going through legal procedures, which wastes a lot of time.

The time wasted is enough to find several 50,000 yen.

The cost of defending rights is too high, and the Japanese themselves don’t like trouble.

The vast majority of people will choose to swallow their anger and admit defeat.

This is also the reason why most companies succeed every time.

After leaving the agency, it was getting late and the weather was cold.

The continuous snowfall in Hokkaido during the winter has started again.

I wandered the streets of the city with the cheapest cigarette in my mouth. When I got tired, I sat down on a bench by the roadside and watched the passers-by passing by.

Fujii Itsuki would pay attention to their clothes, their temperament, the cell phones they carried and the makeup they wore, and then, like Sherlock Holmes, he would speculate what jobs they held in the city, whether they were married or not, and how much they earned.

Two hours later, he came to the conclusion that most people were ordinary people.

Most men in their thirties do not spend any money on dressing themselves up. At first glance, they look like office workers with the words honest and haggard written on their faces.

Dealing with superiors, dealing with colleagues, dealing with wife, dealing with clients. Life is probably just repetitive like this.

Sometimes when I am stressed out at work, my wife might scold me when I get home, saying, "You just lie on the sofa when you get home. Don't you know how tired I am to do all these things at home?"

Then a family quarrel began, and the long-accumulated negative emotions between each other made the situation worse.

Children also ignore their father's love because they have not received much care from their mother since childhood.

This is a fact that Fujii Itsuki has witnessed with his own eyes. A parent was chatting with him in the office about his family situation. He was unloved by his wife, unloved by his daughter, and full of pressure at work. He was scolded and ridiculed by his boss every day. During the chat, he suddenly had a mental breakdown and cried to him in the office for the whole afternoon.

Fujii Itsuki also noticed that some uncles who looked to be almost 50 years old did not wear any marriage-related luxury goods on their fingers.

You can say he is relaxed, or you can say he is lonely.

At the age of fifty, he still hasn't met someone who can love him, someone he can love.
Fujii Itsuki couldn't help but wonder if his future would be like this, like most people, doing an ordinary job, earning an ordinary salary, repeating the same life for decades and still not knowing what he really wants.

There is no lover, no relatives, no friends to share my troubles with, and no friends to share my life with.
In the end, all pursuits can only be attributed to one thing: "money".

He didn't want to become like this, so he chose to pursue his dream from the beginning, but his dream forced him back here.

The word "dream" was becoming increasingly distant from him. He didn't know how long it had been since he last heard of it.
When we were in high school, our classmates were all full of enthusiasm and passion. They had dreams of becoming bands, singers, voice actors, baseball players, movie actors, etc. But in the end, most of them became social machines who worked just to get off work.

Fujii Itsuki looked at the falling snow from the sky and suddenly felt confused.

Did I really return to Otaru just to open a coffee shop and live the rest of my life simply?

Just then, the phone rang suddenly.

(End of this chapter)