Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

I finally made it back to Nagoya the other day and am feeling relieved, but I’m planning to be running all over the place again this week, lol.

It's great, but sitting too much makes my butt hurt, lol.

While we were traveling, we were using social media to discuss how we could improve the image of the construction industry.

I also thought about how we could appeal to young Japanese people to encourage more of them to join the construction industry.

 

I shared my view that I’d like young people to gain more experience in the construction industry, and the event organizers agreed with me.

Ultimately, even with all the PR, I think the construction industry is just a facade—it’s an industry shrouded in mystery.

Don't you ever wonder if the construction industry can really attract people just by promoting itself as "the people who build bridges" or "the people who build dams"? lol

What's more, since most of the job postings are for major PR firms, they're all written from a manager's perspective.

In the construction industry, it’s not just the supervisory work that should be highlighted—the actual construction work itself should be promoted as well.

However, the companies actually doing the construction don’t engage in that kind of PR at all. They wouldn’t waste money on PR like that.

 

At cake shops, they offer job shadowing opportunities, right?

Firefighters have those job-shadowing opportunities, too, right?

Is there such a thing as the construction industry? lol

Even if there were any, would you use a level (a device like an auto-level to check for levelness) or a transit?

So you definitely don't know anything about the construction industry, do you?

The hands-on work we'll be doing includes installing gutters, assembling formwork, and trying our hand at shotcrete.

No way, that's dangerous, isn't it!?

I suppose people might say that, but aren’t we the ones who place the highest priority on safety out of all industries?

 

Accidents happen as a result of unsafe behavior. I think our industry is one where safety is taken extremely seriously.

If you do that, I think you’ll be able to get quite a bit of safe work experience.

 

The same goes for internships.

After all, what can you really understand just by skimming over what the director is doing??

Don't you ever feel that way?

Just because you get a certificate at the end of an internship, does that really make you think, “I want to do this job!!”?

 

If you work for a major company, I think people say it’s the kind of job that gets marked on a map. These days, if you search on Google, it even shows the area around the worksite, doesn’t it?

However, what really matters is that this is the kind of work where making each and every part by hand leaves a deep impression on my memory.

I think the appeal of the construction industry is that the experiences etched in your memory are still very much a part of it today~

I think there are few industries other than construction where experience is made tangible and preserved over the long term.

As a subcontractor, I can’t help but think it would be great if the national and local governments, as well as the general contractors, would highlight that aspect a bit more, lol.

Well, I do think it’s important for us subcontractors to put some thought into how we present ourselves.

 

Anyway, I'd really like to let them experience our work.

I’d like to try doing some actual construction work on-site. It seems like the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is on board with that and is basically saying, “We’ll give you points for it.”

Even if that means losing two or three days of construction time, since it’s an investment in the future, we need to carry out both our current and future work simultaneously, don’t we?

Let's do our best for the future of the civil engineering and construction industries!

 

See you later.