A toxic workplace! And my wife who works there... (#12)
Actually, my wife works in a toxic workplace.
As for household chores, I handle the laundry and cleaning on weekdays, and my 84-year-old, very energetic grandmother handles dinner. I'm grateful for that.
I only handle simple hot pot dinners on weekends. It's almost always pork shabu-shabu, though...
1. Average time of returning home
The average time she gets home is 8:30 PM. Looking at this time alone, it might not seem like a big deal.
So, except on snowy days, she commutes 10km each way by electric bicycle every morning.
Moreover, for the past few years, her only time off has been Sunday afternoons.
If it were me, I couldn't handle it.
Despite this kind of life, my wife is actually always incredibly energetic and cheerful. It's almost strange...
In the morning, she gets ready while playing upbeat music that people in their 20s listen to,
and at night, she has a theme song she memorizes the lyrics to every month, which she belts out in the bath.
When she gets out of the bath, I'll think she's watching Chinese dramas on her smartphone while eating dinner, only to find her sleeping like a child while still sitting.
Even when I tell her she should change jobs, it goes completely over her head.
She's already entering her 19th year.
2. Her job is a visiting nurse
She works as a visiting nurse.
When she sees an elderly person, she can guess their approximate age, and if they say they were born in a certain year of the Taisho era, she immediately knows how old they are.
If she gets an emergency call, she flies out, and she'll say things like, 'Today, the grandpa who was a social studies teacher and a huge Hanshin Tigers fan suddenly lost his energy, so I sent him to the hospital,' and
despite calling her own company a black company, she keeps on working there.
3. What you really love changes your perspective
My wife, who lives by her own values and does what she truly loves.
If it were me, I would definitely quit due to the terrible working conditions, but she has a perspective that transcends that. She lives completely on her own terms, has maximum self-affirmation, accepts others' values, involves people, and is immensely popular with her clients!
This is what I have been seeking.
I realized after I developed a mental illness that my wife was amazing for doing that so easily.
I just thought she was simply cheerful. Haha.
How embarrassing. Sorry, honey.
But I'll also praise myself for realizing it.
Of course, I know that having so little time off is legally wrong.
I'm worried she'll overwork herself, so I have to do something about it eventually...
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