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So this is from today.
Hina Korogashi-san today.
Hina Korogashi-san.
Yes.
I think Hina is the first name and Korogashi is the last name?
No.
Hina Korogashi.
No, no, no.
It's a nickname.
Oh, got it.
It's a...
Hina Korogashi.
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It's Hina Korogashi.
Oh, got it.
It's one word.
Hina Korogashi.
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I'm listening to podcasts on the train every day.
I always have a laugh at the easy-to-understand English and the interesting conversations.
I'm a fourth-year university student and I'm a social worker from April.
I'm excited and looking forward to it now.
I'd like to know some good things that you've prepared for when you become a social worker
and how you keep your mental state going without quitting as an intern.
I will be an accountant next year.
I've already finished my homework and I'm studying every day.
I'm sure you've all worked as a social worker, but I'm curious about how you've been working
in the past.
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Hina Korogashi-san.
Yeah.
It's going to be a banker.
Banker, yeah.
They give you assignments even before you enter the company?
Yeah, yeah.
What the fuck?
Did you have any of those assignments?
No, nothing.
I didn't have any.
Did you?
Yeah, I did.
What do you do?
What do they make you do?
I have group assignment actually.
That is...
You know the...
What?
Yeah.
Okay, what?
You've got kind of...
What was that?
Night day?
Yeah, night day.
You've got night day and you still have like what?
Like seven months?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Before the right April.
So you have to...
You know, the company divided us like ten groups and do some...
Have to think about the new business idea and have to give a presentation at the night
day skill.
I guess I'm not...
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What?
Those timing and...
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
I have never attended to the assignment meeting.
Oh, really?
Oh, so it's not mandatory?
You don't have to go there?
I guess you have to.
It's not a must.
There's no like penalty for that.
Oh, okay.
But yeah, you should join if you want to do some...
Is it awkward if you don't join it in April?
You join the company and you're the guy that didn't attend our group session.
Well, not to me, but...
For some people.
Of course, obviously.
Wow.
Otherwise, you know, they make like group line and I was in here in that group line
and replied nothing.
Well, you know, I said, "Oh, I'm sorry.
I can't go to class.
I'm sorry."
But they never see me.
So on that day I went there and "Nice to meet you."
And "Oh, you're..."
You know, those...
Wow.
Was it awkward at that moment?
Like not to me, but yeah, that was.
Oh, God.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the fact that you have to...
So what's the rate of like people joining and not joining?
So you were one of the not people that didn't join the project.
Yeah, it's like 99...
99, 1.
Or 98.
Yeah.
Yeah, 98, 2.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, 98, 2.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
So but you wanted to join, but you couldn't?
Or you were just too like, "Fuck this.
You know, I'm not going to do this.
I'm not even..."
Of course I really wanted to join.
Of course you wanted to.
Of course you wanted to.
Of course.
But you know, my, you know, night day was...
I was, you know, I applied late, you know, it was summer, like late in the fall.
Yeah.
Timing was different from the other guys.
Oh, okay.
So you're like a newcomer.
Yeah.
You know, you weren't able to like really...
Yeah.
Fit in with the...
Yeah.
I really wanted to join, but...
But you couldn't, right?
Couldn't.
Even if you wanted to?
Yeah.
Well, that's too bad.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Well, then I guess, yeah.
Yeah.
But it's not going to hurt you, right?
After April, like it's not going to...
No.
The performance review won't be affected by how you did on the pre-entering activity.
No, I...
I believe not.
I believe not.
But I'm not sure if, you know, those, you know, human resources will see the result and
maybe they, you know, the section, like busho-wake, they use the, you know, the result maybe.
I'm not sure.
Okay.
That's not fair.
You're not getting paid, right?
No, at all.
Oh my god.
No.
And I was in, you know, we all like...
Like your Nancy, so you have to write some papers.
Exactly.
Go to the classes, attend the, you know, that was...
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Sotsuron, right?
Yeah.
You have to do that.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, I guess there are so many Japanese companies that gives you some, you know, beforehand
assignment, I guess.
Is it okay if I tell people that, fuck it, like you don't have to do...
Because from my perspective, I don't think you're obligated to like do that stuff, right?
Well, but you know, at the same time, you have to prepare for the, you know, new year,
new, you know, shakaijin life.
So that's also important.
You have to prepare at least something.
But is it...
Shouldn't it be like...
I don't...
It's obligatory, right?
Yeah, it shouldn't be forced.
Yeah, you should be able to choose if you want to do it or not.
Yeah, yeah.
Like if you still haven't joined the company yet.
Yeah, yeah.
True.
Man, disappointment.
Yeah.
Okay, so after you became a shakaijin, tell me one thing that was the most exciting for
you.
Exciting to me?
And one thing that you hated the most.
In one of each.
For Hinakorogashisan.
Okay, okay.
If I got the name right.
Hinakorogashisan.
Yes, yes, yes.
What excited me the most was, you know, the fact that I got certain goals, like numeric
goals, and what I had to do was, you know, pursue that goal.
Yeah.
That was exciting to me.
Oh, okay.
You know, pursuing a little higher than my, you know, average goals.
Yeah.
And trying to pursue that and try hard.
Yeah.
That was the thing that I enjoyed the most.
And, you know, had to learn new things, train myself.
Yeah.
And you're in the real world, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Everything counts.
Yeah.
It's bigger than a circle.
True.
And also, you know, sometimes the customer gives us, you know, some feedbacks that they
enjoyed the trips.
Right.
The day was so nice.
You know, those arrangements were really gorgeous and those things.
That was the exciting thing.
The most exciting thing for me.
Okay.
What did you hate the most?
What did you hate the most?
Facts.
Facts?
Facts.
Like the fax machine?
Fax machine.
Why?
We used that fax machine on the company, at the office.
Like not emails?
Oh, we did use email, but you know, when you reserve some restaurants, they don't have
some of those kind of emails.
So we had to, you know, use fax machine and send them those papers.
That was so...
Irritating.
Yeah.
Why?
What's the...
Just type in numbers and just bam, right?
But you know, you have to like hundreds of papers you have to send to...
Why hundreds?
Like you know, if the French group come to Japan, they would do some like two weeks,
you know, trip.
And each day they have three meals.
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That means, you know, 14 times three.
And then it would be like nearly like 50.
Wow.
You have to do fax for every one of the meal.
Well, almost.
Almost every meal.
That's crazy.
That was the most thing I didn't like.
I thought many of the places don't even accept fax.
But many of, I guess many of the traditional Japanese places still go with fax.
Yeah, we wanted to send them emails or like system, you know, using those, but they asked
us to...
Go with fax?
Yeah.
So we called them, "Ah, excuse me, can you send me fax?"
Wow.
Very traditional.
Yeah.
Wow.
That was kind of something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about you?
For me, what excited me the most was...
Maybe the next episode, I guess?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
See you on the next episode.
Sure.
