My Career Path Starting from Modeling 2

A recap of the previous part.
I worked as a magazine model from age 16 for 8 years, but then I was fired.
I had no general common sense, so I couldn't get a job anywhere. I was in trouble.
Surprisingly! At that exact moment, my mother started a business in Ginza.
Being on the verge of being a NEET, I couldn't refuse and ended up helping her...

Once I got used to helping out (which was also a form of resignation),
my mother started looking for a husband for me.
It came out of the blue.
I had absolutely no desire to get married since I was a child, but
maybe around the time I was 28,
she started getting strangely impatient. (My mother, that is.)
It was no joke to be forced into marriage on top of being forced to help with work I hated.
At the very least, let me have a love marriage (even if I have no intention of doing so).
But I knew.
My mother wouldn't be happy with whoever I brought home.
Whether they were highly educated, from a wealthy family, or good-looking,
and the person who met my mother's approval was nearly 35 years older than me. He was a good person, though.

I said to that person,
"Please run away. Getting involved with my family will only lead to trouble."
Regardless of whether he was a good person or older,
since I had no desire to get married in the first place,
I didn't think I should be dragging others into this mess,
but the fights with my mother became more and more frequent.

And in the end, our anger exploded over something trivial, and I was disowned.
My mother was a beautiful person,
and what she said was mostly correct, but she was also unreasonable.
I wouldn't go so far as to say she didn't understand the nuances of human emotion, but
her words and will were strong and harsh; there was no one more terrifying than her.

After being disowned, I wondered if I should just go to Tobita Shinchi, but
for the time being, I contacted a relative to act as a guarantor,
and ended up being taken care of by them.
(As for why I couldn't consult my father, as you might have guessed from the story so far,
my family is a mother-supremacy household, so my father couldn't go against her either. Heartless.)

About half a year after being disowned, I got a call from a classmate from Horikoshi.
"Would you like to work for a certain author?"
I replied in a second.
I didn't know what kind of work it would be, but having worked since I was 16,
I found the days of doing nothing and having nothing to do mentally tough.

From there, everything was decided in a flash,
and I did everything from office work and accounting to chores,
but the trouble was that there was no handover,
so everything was trial and error.
However, perhaps due to my experience as a model, I couldn't say "I can't do it."
If I couldn't do it, I had to find a way to make it possible.
And by having helped with my mother's work, I learned to respond to things quickly and flexibly.
Applying that lesson,
I analyzed the previous person's computer, overcame each hurdle as it came, and somehow managed to keep working for 8 years, even now.

Life is a series of once-in-a-lifetime encounters.
If I hadn't become a model, I wouldn't have entered Horikoshi.
It was my high school classmate who led me to my current job.
I cannot thank them enough.

And as for my mother, she continued the shop even after I left,
(we did reconcile, but that's a story for another time)
but she passed away from cancer two and a half years ago.
I had my work switched to remote so I could care for my mother and be with her at the end.
At that time, for the first time, I thought that even though we fought so much,
it was good that we were able to work together as mother and daughter and be together all that time.

There are many things in this world that you only realize after you've lost them,
but everything I had done had a meaning.

That concludes my career history and job-changing experience, which generally won't be of any reference to anyone.