"I want to live an easy life." With that naive mindset, I quit my job [Part 8]

Good morning.

I'm Matsuda, enjoying a day that suddenly opened up after moving my business trip up by one day.
I'm Matsuda, enjoying a day that suddenly opened up after moving my business trip up by one day.

The REBORN arc.
Thank you for reading.

I finally became a "normal person."

That was the story from last time.

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Since I started reading books,
my sales performance also improved by a notch.

And then one day, I received a substantial bonus.

That debt that had been strangling me—
I was able to pay it off in seven months.

The heavy weight that had
been sitting on my shouldersfor so long,
felt like it had suddenly vanished.

…is what I talked about last time.

It wasn't anything that cool, though.

Competition.

In my case, I was just completely exhausted.

Numbers, numbers, and more numbers on top of that.
Even if you get promoted, you can't escape the numbers.

Ten years from now, twenty years from now.

Thinking about the future feels like being in a torture chamber for the rest of my life.

...

If it's not fun, it's not work!

I decided to run toward the easy path.

I took the plunge and changed jobs to something easier!

I resigned from my current company,
and decided to return to my hometown.

At the time, I was living in Osaka.

That said,
I had no leads whatsoever.

"In times like this, it's time to head to the job center."

While I was talking at the Hello Work counter,
something suddenly caught my eye.

"Mobile phone sales"

"This is it."

I felt ajolt of electricityrun through my body.

Back then, those little boxes were just
starting to spread throughout the world.

But the person at the counter said this.

"This company hardly ever hires anyone.
I think it's difficult to get accepted."

……This person is really good at lowering people's motivation!

But, it's better to regret doing something than to regret not doing it.

"Please let me apply to this company."

I had nothing to lose.
I decided to knock on that door.

♬

To give you the conclusion first,
I was hired.

Even though I was threatened so much (lol).

Now, the mobile phone shop I'd been dreaming of.
Every day would be spent leisurely selling phones to customers——.

Just as I was thinking that, an official notice was handed down to me.

"You are hereby ordered to be assigned to the Corporate Sales Department."

……Huh.

W-w-wait, sales again?

I thought I had escaped from the numbers,
but before I knew it, I was standing in the room of numbers once again.

God, were you watching? (lol)

……However, that wasn't the case.

Surprisingly, it was actually easy.

After all, the times were good.

It was an era when
everyone started wanting that little box.

Even if I didn't do anything,
the phone would ring.

"We'd like to sign a bulk contract with you."

I'd go over, draw up contracts for 30 units,
and get their signatures and copies of their IDs.

Just like that, the numbers kept piling up in an exciting way.

Even though it was the same "sales" work,
it was completely different
from that torture chamber at my previous company.

Whether I liked it or not, the numbers just kept coming.

Could such an easy job
really exist?

I was working while humming a tune.

♬

A sudden transfer order

Just as those days of humming along
had continued for a while.

I was called in by my boss.

……A store manager?

Me?

For me, who was content with just selling things at a leisurely pace, this was a sudden transfer order.

……No, wait a minute.

When I heard the name of that store, a chill ran down my spine.

It was the fifth lowest in sales.

A store famous within the company for being impossible to manage.

And at that store—

There was a very scary "female supervisor" who had driven one manager after another to quit.

I want to live an easy life.

I, who had wished for that, was about to be thrown into an unbelievable place.

……To be continued in the next episode.

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If I had stayed there and just gritted my teeth,

I surely wouldn't have been able to hum a tune.

Happiness doesn't come to you just by waiting for it, does it?

It pops up unexpectedly,
just beyond the point where you've taken a little action.

That "little" action was able to change my life in a big way.

...What if, just for a moment, I couldn't move...

For a split second,
I got scared (laughs).

Lastly...

When I was in my 20s,
everything I did backfired.

Life is so cruel, I thought,
and at the time, I genuinely hated everything about the world, including myself.

But now, I love myself,
including that rock bottom and everything around me.

I will continue to share
the moments that helped me learn to love myself.

Kaito Matsuda

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