姫路猫不動産

January 21, 2020

第１話　臆病な人間 A coward person

<p>In the occupation columns of all the questionnaires i have done in my life, i always wrote “employee”. But i have never written things like: “real estate”, “self-employed” and of course, never wrote “CEO”.<br> It was just embarrassing to call myself a CEO in a corporation that had only one person (me).</p> <p>I didn’t have any confidence in this job, which i took over from my parents.</p> <p>Less than a year after graduating from an art college, I decided to quit my design office. The main story is all about that lazy person who just dropped out from everything, me, who created a estate agency out of nowhere.</p> <p>Even if you say “estate agency” it makes no sense, because it hasn’t even a single employee. I would rather say it’s just a typical “daddy&amp;mom” store, because is just my parents and me.</p> <p>Even at that huge size, our bubble-built realtor seemed to be pretty glamorous i would say.</p> <p>After my father and my ex-military grandfather got out from a “Crysis resuscitation”, our estate agency started to grow up super fast!</p> <p>Because we were extremely poor, every single goal we achieved, we use to celebrate like crazy!</p> <p>You can easily understand what i’m saying by just looking at the pictures from that time.<br> Only the old pics could transmit the good moments.</p> <p>At that time, every single day i was ridiculed by my classmates by calling me as a “land shark”, and even as a “rich boy”. Well, at that time, I didn’t even know the meaning of a “Land shark” so I didn’t even notice I was being ridiculed by them.</p> <p>My only talent at that time was “insensitivity”, so when i came with that in my mind these days, i just realised that i had been saved by my “insensitivity”.<br> My father’s job in the real estate business was not well understood by me, and also i didn’t have any interest at that time.<br> I thought something like “Is this a illegal industry?” right after I saw someone who use to come to the company all the time. I was not interested at all. I would rather say, it was a world unrelated to me.<br> It didn’t seem like a job for a coward person like me.</p> <p>I wasn’t really prepared to be honest.<br> My father told me at that time that rather doing a part time job, i could just come back home and help him with his business.</p> <p>But like, wouldn’t he be worried about handing over a real estate company that has been in his hands for more than 30 years for a stupid person like me?</p> <p>I was just rubbing my forehead against my desk while looking at my license number on the wall and thinking…<br> “I think I’m done …”</p> <p>The procedure for renewing a house building license once every five years felt quite troublesome so I could just think “Is there any point in renewing my license?”</p> <p>Export reselling, which started as a side job, has completely reached its peak, because a business that can be done 100% at home and start without anyone else, it’s just obvious that will not scale.</p> <p>It took me two years to realize that “no-risk” was a loss just because the keyword flickered inside of my head.</p> <p>“Let’s just forget about everything and get a job somewhere …”</p> <p>Just looking up at the ceiling of the house office, where my family was sleeping, hours and hours passed.</p> <p>No more tears are coming out anymore.</p> <p>“I want to escape from this place now.”<br> “I just want to escape.”</p> <p>“Is there no other way but to escape?”</p> <p>“Even if i run away it will be considered as courage.”</p> <p>That’s what I thought, every single day.<br> From morning to evening.</p>