Returning to Society After Pension Grade 1 (Part 10): Life After Returning is, of Course, Full of Ups and Downs

Continuing from the previous chapter.

Retail Warehouse / Information Systems Department

The company where I was hired through a closed recruitment process using an agent was a stationery retailer with about 20 employees.

I initially joined as a contract employee, with plans to become a full-time employee after six months.

There, few people were proficient with PCs, so I taught the staff Excel and wrote programs to automate simple copy-paste tasks.

That said, when I first joined (despite having been in the IT department of a major company as a new graduate), I knew absolutely nothing about Excel functions, so I desperately taught myself every day while pretending I knew what I was doing.

Self-study and research are the only special skills I, a clumsy person, have acquired while drinking muddy water.

Even with such incompetence, because the IT literacy of those around me was low, it worked as a job.

I was scolded a little for being late, but thanks to psychotherapy, I managed to maintain the mental toughness to endure the stress.

In my late 30s, for the first time in my life, I experienced being relied upon at work.

However, the company was actually in a bad state.

By the time I joined, the management had long since been tilting.

The second-generation president was someone who couldn't do the math, and despite being on the verge of a deficit, he expanded into other businesses, and for that reason, he fired high-paid (meaning long-experienced and capable) employees one after another.

The fact that he splurged on a major agent to hire me was probably because he thought he could find someone who could handle the situation alone.

That's impossible. In that case, you should estimate an annual salary of over 10 million yen.

Six months after joining, I was forced to choose between lowering my salary to become a full-time employee or remaining a contract employee.

I immediately gave up on that company, and chose the latter.

Taking advantage of the lack of instructions from above, I began to learn programming in earnest during work hours.

Of course, I was making tools related to my work, but I put more effort into improving my own skills than into practicality.

I thought I would be 100% cut at the end of the six-month contract, so I did it to acquire even a little bit of skill and find re-employment at a thriving IT company.

And 10 months after joining, I requested a recruitment agent again.

In case I didn't get hired, I also looked into unemployment insurance.At that time, I was already able to predict and act on the near future to that extent.

A year after joining, as expected, my contract was terminated, but I had already received an offer for my next job.

IT Solutions Company - Full-time Employee

Through such circumstances, I joined the company where I currently work (as of 10/2023).

It is a so-called IT solutions business that proposes and customizes big data management software for large companies.

There are about 400 employees, and in this day and age, performance is on an upward trend.

Thanks to studying during work hours at my previous job, I was able to become ready to contribute to some extent, which is expected of mid-career employees.

The way I am treated at work is worlds apart from when I worked at a famous company as a new graduate.

I have finally become a normal person who is a bit strange but can do the job reasonably well.

I think the fact that remote work is allowed was a big factor.

Since I am not good at time management, I am still not good at getting dressed and going to work on time.

I am trying to correct that point with treatment to normalize dopamine.
(I wrote about the fact that the sense of time is related to dopamine metabolism below.)

…This is the process by which I returned to society from a depressed state and inability to work.

I am writing this for those who want to get some hints regarding employment.

The next chapter is about how I moved toward brain function improvement and problem-solving after that.

That is all.