Raamenchan

Opportunities are created! That’s a belief I live my life by, and it’s definitely working right now. In a short period of time, I may very well have both a work visa AND a job that I’ll enjoy at the same time!

Last night, my thoughts on how to take my next step just clicked. And it’s funny how that works sometimes, because it should have been obvious all this time (or at least that’s what we tell ourselves in such situations).

The fact that I may have to work at an English teaching job for a year or so bothered me when I first came to Japan, but recently I came to terms with it as I realized that it really wasn’t going to get in the way of my dreams. So recently, I started gathering all the resources I needed to make it happen.

Now, it happens to be that I have a friend here in Japan by the name of 丸く (Maruku, or Mark). That’s not his real name (it’s Yamada Souta), but it’s what he goes by. I met him about one month ago after the Ken Honda seminar, when ガクチャン (Gakuchan) introduced me to him. (Gakuchan was one of the people who noticed me when I asked the question during Q&A, and then approached me afterwards.)

Turns out that Mark is one heck of a guy. He’s 23, and he owns his own order-made suit company. He wanted to get started with his own business so badly, that he quit college shortly after he got in, and just got started. Now, his company is doing great and he employs seven salespeople!

I’ve hung out with him a couple times since then, and he’s a fantastic guy. Full of energy, loves an adventure, not afraid to take risks, is straightfoward and honest, confident and easygoing. I’ve never met anyone like him… sorta. Actually, he reminds me of myself!

I guess there are personality types out there, and he got equipped with the same one that I got! Even to the characteristic where both of us generally better at listening than talking. Or to be more specific, we draw on the energy of others to strike a good conversation. Which, unfortunately, sometimes leaves us with nothing to talk about, lol. But put both of us with someone who likes to talk, and it’s a party!

If I had to work for someone, I would not at all mind working for Mark! And in fact, from day one when we met, we were both saying how it would be great if there was a chance to work together! Which brings me to my moment of genius (or realization of the obvious)!

I’m not the type to break promises or contracts, so if I do start a job with a an English teaching company, I’m probably going to stick with them until the contract is done, which will be a year or two. And afterwards, my plan is be be on my own, living as a stylist.

But if that’s the case, then I won’t really have much of an opportunity to work with Mark. And that’s what hit me. If I’m going to spend the next year or two working somewhere, then I should do it somewhere I’ll enjoy working! And such a place was in front of me this entire time! And as an added bonus, working with custom suits will actually get me headed in a directly not all that far from styling!

So having made the decision that I would like to work with Mark, I sent him an email this morning sharing my thoughts with him, and suggesting that we should find some time to talk about it! And it was definitely the right move, because I got an email back saying that yes we should talk about it! How about Monday?

Time to make things happen!

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