Those Who Enjoy Their Work Win / Entertainment Content Sales Tips 5

Sunday nights are depressing.

The next morning, after a night's sleep, I have to start on the work I left piled up from the previous week, and I have to list out everything I need to do for the week, including the things I don't want to do.

I think the business of handling entertainment content looks like a fun world from the outside, but the people actually working within it aren't necessarily enjoying their work.

Doing what must be done. Doing it even if you hate it. Doing it even if you don't feel like it. Everyone is just being driven into a corner like that.

However.

In a job where the product is entertainment content—something that brings joy to people—I believe the people involved must work with joy. If the people providing the joy are suffering, the fun inherent in the content surely won't be conveyed.

I have experienced sales, marketing, and planning roles in the entertainment content industry, covering everything from the so-called upstream to downstream. I am working from a different angle now, but what I handle is still entertainment content, and I haven't strayed from the professional duty of delivering entertainment to people.

I am as depressed as anyone on Sunday nights, but I am aware that I work at full speed and without forgetting to be powerful during the weekdays.

By the way, an indicator of whether a person is enjoying their work can be observed by the reaction you get when you explain the work you are currently doing to someone from a different workplace.

I think people who, while including the difficult parts and stories of hardship, have an overall sense of "fun" oozing out are indeed enjoying their work. And people who seem to be enjoying their work generally do good work.

The entertainment content industry has a charm that makes it hard to leave once you've stepped into it. However, a certain number of people leave the industry every year out of disgust.

They are captivated by the flashy appearance and manage to sneak into the industry, but the hardship outweighs the fun, they become exhausted, and at some point, they quietly withdraw from this world. Even though they should be enjoying their work, they find they just can't enjoy it anymore.

So, how can one enjoy their work? Is it fulfillment, compensation, or human relationships?

As for me, I don't think it's about emphasizing just one thing, but rather that enjoyment is born from multiplying complex elements together.

Specifically, I think of elements such as: ・Is it content (genre) that I like? ・Can I get along with the people I work with? ・Is it work that requires me to think for myself? ・Do I have the momentum to act rather than think? ・Do I have the resolve to make this a lifelong career? ・Am I securing enough income to live properly? and so on.

If you don't get paid, you will eventually face financial ruin, and if you aren't blessed with good colleagues around you, the engine of enjoyment won't start. If it's a job you don't want to take action on, perhaps it's not for you, and if it's a job where thinking for yourself is discouraged, there's no need for it to be you.

In this way, by gathering various points of enjoyment rather than relying on just one factor, if you can come to think of it as a job you should be engaged in comprehensively, you will surely be able to "enjoy your work" naturally.

I have been doing this job for 25 years, and looking around, those who have continued longer than me all seem to enjoy their work.I think this is an industry where those who enjoy their work by any means necessary are the ones who win.

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