[Work Style Reform] Friction Also Becomes a Pattern — The Richness Given by Parallel Work🍃

How is your heart feeling today?

Pouring all your energy into one job is wonderful.
However, for me, "just one" is not enough to satisfy my heart.

I support my livelihood with long-term temporary work,
and bring in a fresh breeze with short-term assignments and freelance contracts.
In counseling work, I stand by someone's heart,
and in writing, I carve myself into words.
And, in between, I refresh and catch my breath.

If even one of these were missing, something would feel incomplete.
But when I lay them all out, I finally feel like I am weaving a "fabric that is uniquely me."

What the period of unemployment (paid leave consumption period) gave me was not a void, but white space.
I think the richness of my current parallel work was born from that white space.

Among my parallel work, what I feel is particularly rich is "self-expression".

Temporary work gives me a connection to society and stability.
However, there is a "voice of mine" that cannot be fully expressed within that framework alone.

In counseling work, by standing by people's pain, my sensitivity and experiences turn into words.
In writing, the emotions and realizations that had accumulated deep in my heart take flight as text.
When they reach someone's heart, I can confirm in a small way the "meaning of my existence."

Self-expression is not just output.
It is a "place where I can be myself,"
and an irreplaceable richness that parallel work has brought me.

During my unemployment (paid leave consumption period), I focused on counseling and writing.
Wishing, "I hope I can make a living with this," I gave it my all.

However, what I realized after trying it was—
that counseling and writing alone felt somewhat lacking.

Although my heart was satisfied, it lacked a daily rhythm.
Interaction with people and stimulation from the outside world.
Without those, the fabric of my heart looked a little monotonous.

It was because of that period that I realized:
"Self-expression is important. But it doesn't have to be the only thing.
It is precisely because there is a connection to the outside world that self-expression comes alive."

I think the unemployment period didn't just give me white space,
but also drew the "sketch" for weaving my current parallel work.

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