Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

 

The cherry blossoms at the Iwakura Cherry Blossom Festival are finally at 80% bloom—but it's raining lol

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and it's raining.

It looks like this rain will continue through Sunday, and the cherry blossom festival runs through Sunday as well.

By the way,I'm a rainmaker.

I'm told by my coworkers not to come to the job site because it's raining.

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But that's beside the point.

 

There are freshmen swarming all over the place, huh? lol

This is my 23rd spring since I entered this industry.

At that time, I was working on a project in Kitakyushu with a senior colleague at the Kyushu Branch.

The project covered an area of approximately 3,000 m² within a 300-meter slope and included slope greening. Construction proceeded by cutting down from the top to the bottom in conjunction with earthwork, while simultaneously finishing the slope face as work progressed.

It feels like we're carving our way through the mountain.

Through that process, I gradually learned how to do things one by one—taking measurements, drawing blueprints (by hand), and creating photo albums.

Back then, I didn't have any happy memories—all I could think about was, "When should I quit?" lol

I guess I was basically working just to have fun.

I worked to have money for fun, and I figured I could quit anytime if things got tough.

My paycheck was gone in a week, lol.

 

There was a news story recently about freshmen saying on Twitter that they wanted to quit as early as their first day.

It's just like me... There isn't that much of a difference between young people back then and young people today, is there?

I was like that too, though now I'm totally into slope construction, lol.

When it comes to work, before you know it, there comes a time when it’s actually fun, doesn’t it?

Even if you do it reluctantly, once you keep at it, you start to see the fun in it, don't you?

I didn't like my boss, but I really enjoyed interacting and talking with the craftsmen.

My boss used to say this to me all the time: “How many times do I have to tell you before you get it!?” lol

When you work at a large company, there are a lot of internal documents.

Even though they told me, “That’s part of the job,” we ended up arguing over which was more important: making money on the job or filling out paperwork in the office? lol

For all meaningless, routine documents, I create macros in Excel to generate them in bulk or apply random coefficients.
I used it to make something that looked the part.

But since the main goal was just to get it submitted, my boss’s review was pretty cursory, lol.

Come to think of it, there are still parts of our internal documents that say “???,” aren’t there? (I think people at big companies will know exactly what I mean, lol.)

That said, there are definitely some internal documents that are absolutely necessary.

 

Well, in this day and age, when we’re increasingly finding ourselves in a position where we have to say, “We’re counting on you young people for the future!” I’d recommend getting along with them while you still can, lol.

After all, it’s likely that in another 30 years, there will be quite a few jobs that we (people aged 30 to 50) don’t even know about yet, and

There are bound to be some jobs that make people say, “That brings back memories, doesn’t it?”

After all, we’ll need to learn that from young people.

I've got high hopes for this year's freshmen! lol

 

By the way,"How many times do I have to tell you before you get it!?" isEpisode 532Apparently lol

 

See you later.