Daily Life at 67: Come to think of it, I retired 2 years ago, Part 2

Good evening.
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By the way, the man in the photo is not me (｡･ω･｡)

Following yesterday, I would like to continue writing about "retirement" and "re-employment."

That's right. I retired two years ago. Me.

To touch briefly on my work history

To summarize my work history,
I worked in sales for two and a half years after entering the workforce, but I quit because I couldn't see a future in it.

After that, I became an employee at a computer-related staffing agency, and went from being a machine operator to
writing COBOL programs, doing system design,
and becoming the leader of a maintenance team for a securities company's subsystem. While I was suffering from poor health due to the heavy workload, I received an offer to become a computer instructor and quit. I spent about six and a half years in this block.

However, due to the sloppy management of the computer school, the business was closed down and I was laid off. This was three years.
And then, a period of unemployment of over four months...

My previous job was introduced to me through a chance connection, and I worked there for 29 years.
To put it roughly, starting with managing the company's system room, I acted as a one-man IT department while also transferring to the accounting department to handle financial closing, Y2K issues, improving work efficiency by connecting 60 stores to the head office via the internet, handling tax audits, and dealing with auditing firms—I played the role of a utility multiplayer. Phew.

Writing it out like this reminds me of two years ago.
Back then, I was writing and sending out resumes like crazy (^^ゞ

And yet, the number of interviews I managed to get was... zero.

My state of mind at that time.
In my previous job, I used the internet to introduce groupware to 60 stores that previously had no computers, improving administrative efficiency and speeding up communication with the head office.
Infrastructure construction was a breeze. Leave the management of over 200 PCs to me!

I was also challenging myself with studies outside my specialty, such as passing the Real Estate Notary exam, so my brain hadn't hardened yet. I can do any kind of work!

Though I would prefer to refrain from heavy lifting or work in high places <(_ _)>

That was the kind of feeling I had, so I thought if I could just meet and talk to them, they would understand my value!

That's what I thought.

And yet...

I kept sending my career sheet to any promising job postings that came up from Hello Work or were sent via email from recruitment services.

I wonder how many I sent in total... looking into the distance... (・ω・)

And yet... not a single company interviewed me. Oh dear... orz

Why couldn't I even get an interview?
I even spoke to the hiring managers at the companies over the phone, but it seems the bottleneck was that I was over 65... though they wouldn't say it clearly.

But, but, that wasn't written in the application requirements, was it? (・O・)
I suspect that if they write age restrictions, they get glared at by the government, so they make it look okay for now, but in reality, they are screening internally...
Yes, that's my opinion.

Hmph, adults are selfish, everyone is so sneaky (~_~;)
Yes, I am an adult more than anyone else, though (^0^;)

However, looking at it objectively, I think it is very difficult to judge how well the things an old man over 65 has done so far match the aptitude for the work they want him to do from now on. I wonder if it couldn't be helped.

I also talked to the person at Hello Work, and they said apologetically,

"It might be better to look away from system-related job openings and look at other types of jobs... I'll look for those too."

Because (・_・)

That means, in other words, abandoning my own characteristics and doing whatever it takes if there is a company that will hire me...

I retired at the end of May, and this point was mid-July.
It had been a little over three months since I became unemployed.

It had only been three months,which is one way to look at it,but you could also say that three months had alreadypassed by.

My inside head at that time.

It hasn't only been three months!
No, no, I should wait and see a little longer here...
If I keep saying things like that, half a year or a whole year might pass by in the blink of an eye!

And so, it was a complete state of chaos.

This wasn't how it was supposed to be, but...

Going back a little, two months before I retired.
I was drinking in Kinshicho with the accounting manager of the company I am currently working for.

I got along quite well with that person, and we had talked about various things before that.
Actually, they were the person in charge at a company that had business with my previous company, so we had a relationship.
That company was run with a minimum number of people, and as is often the case, they had no employees who were skilled in systems.
On top of that, they were faced with the proposition of having to introduce a system.

So, to put it simply, I was being scouted. While eating yakiniku (^^ゞ

But, I had ties with my previous company, and since I knew the inside situation of that company well, the truth was that I didn't want to think about working for them for the time being.

I will gratefully accept your offer.
I will think about it.

That was the kind of feeling.
And you know... to think that four months later I would end up clinging to that offer...

It continues, as expected <(_ _)>