Reading 'Job Consultation Center' | Reading Log

Just reading the table of contents made me feel a little nervous and excited. That's surely because I am (for the time being) an adult who has been working independently. The questions about work and working that I have faced in my life so far are written exactly as they are in the table of contents.

Ah, it's like I'm actually at Hello Work, listening to a conversation next to an amnesiac alien.

The 'unusual jobs' introduced to the alien are full of Shinsuke Yoshitake's signature humor, mixing a little bit of reality into the dreams. The way various jobs are introduced between conversations is a little similar to 'Aru Kashira Shoten' (I Wonder If There's a Bookstore).

Personally, my favorite jobs are this one, this one, and this one.
(Please try to guess what kind of jobs they are. The corresponding numbers are the order in which they are introduced as jobs in the book.)

Illustrations (3 pieces) partially excerpted from
Job Consultation Center: Unusual Jobs

While the many dream-like, unusual jobs are wonderful, the conversations between the lady and the job-seeking alien in between are also great. The world of Shinsuke Yoshitake is appealing not just for its illustrations, but also for its soft yet well-thought-out philosophical words and sentences.

As a working adult (me = currently on leave) who has experienced labor, overtime, and crowded trains, I think, reality is different. It's actually like this. There aren't many dreams. I could spit out plenty, plenty of complaints about labor.
But, this is what work and working were all about, right? Such exchanges continue.

That's right, I was working because I wanted to be happy.
That's how it was.

The view I was seeing through strong-prescription glasses returns to naked-eye vision. It's blurry, and quite unsettling. But I can look at my feet and my hands.
Even though it's a fluffy, dreamy book, it allows you to face work and working with your feet on the ground once.
It's that kind of book.
I'm glad I read it. I want to open it again.

My personal number one Shinsuke Yoshitake book is definitely this one.

By the way, it seems that the 'Shinsuke Yoshitake Exhibition: Maybe' that I went to see in Tokyo is back as a much larger version.
Whether you didn't go last time, didn't know about it, or even if you did go, please definitely check it out.
The merchandise is also wonderful, so be careful not to spend too much...

I really want to go. I wonder how crowded it will be...
Even though it has dreams and a future, it's a little bit negative, which feels like life, and that's why I like it. Shinsuke Yoshitake.

I talk about the struggle of not being able to read books due to depression here💭
I've finally been able to return to the mindset that 'sometimes things are just like that.' I wonder what I should write about next.