Can You Kill Yourself For Just A Job Hunting?

by Natsumi

Have you ever seen the inside of the Japanese train in Tokyo, in job-hunting season? It might be full of students who are wearing black suits and white shirt with no pattern, having square black working bag. They must have black dyed, neatly combed or tied hair. All of them look almost same, it sounds strange; however, it is considered as formal job-hunting. If you want to get a job at ordinary company, you should dress up like that, or you`ll be regarded as a person who doesn`t have an ability to adjust to rules, regulations and the environment. These days, the job-hunting war is getting harder and harder in Japan and students are needed to spend harder time comparing to previous  decades.

Usually, collage students start job hunting at the same time; winter of junior in collage because Japanese government regulates companies about the start date of recruiting students. Until 2012, the annual job-hunting had started on October 1, but the scheduling will have been moved back to April 1 from 2015. It means the term of job searching will be shortened. Consequently, the period of job searching will be shorter, so people may consider that it`s good for students…but no in reality. It is going to increase the stresses of job searching extremely since students have to get job offer in shorter time. Moreover, university students have to write a graduate essay or report of graduate study. It takes so long time for every student, and of course it is so hard that a few students fail because of the luck of time. Nevertheless, as you can see, it is extremely hard for students to be successful at both study and job hunting. However, the people who failed to find a job will be considered as stragglers. 

As you know, Japanese people care other’s eyes too much――as a consequence, some students commit suicides; last year, over a thousand college students commit suicides and died. The Japanese suicide countermeasures of suicide officially announced that the severe situation of job-hunting market affects the number of students who committed suicide in these days.

Probably Japanese people are too serious about job-hunting――it is ridiculous; to die for job? No, in fact, people should find a job for life. Since I came to the US, I seriously feel that. Here in the US, people enjoy their life and their job. There might be a small difference, but they seem they are always happy. But in Japan, almost everyone complains about their job and keeps saying that they want to quit the jobs. If so, people should just quit and find new one. They should feel free for their life. To be too serious will bring bad result for our life, I believe.

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