While working at a local textile factory, I still harbored a dream deep down to become a priest.
If that's not possible, then at the very least, I want to do work that helps people in the field of social welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With that in mind, I continued studying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, life doesn't always go as planned.
The path I had been aiming for was closed off in the form of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But life is a strange thing.
When one path is closed, an unexpected encounter may be waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was at that time that he met the woman who would later become his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got married when I was 27 years old.
Forty-five years have passed since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking back now, meeting my wife was the greatest thing...
This might have been the greatest miracle of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life after marriage is,
From the life of a young man chasing his dreams,
His life changed into that of a man dedicated to protecting his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around that time, I started working for a water treatment company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a sales job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be honest, I wasn't very good at navigating interpersonal relationships within the company.
However, when it came to going to clients' sites and solving problems, I was surprisingly able to perform well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I originally had experience working in separation and purification technology at a pharmaceutical company.
Water treatment technology is essentially the same: "separation and purification."<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That experience proved useful, and I was able to achieve results as a technical sales representative very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His sales performance was among the best in the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, my life is,
I wasn't the type to settle down at one company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also took on a position as a part-time advisor for a major local trading company.
I sometimes worked in a semi-independent capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around that time, I took on a new challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
"From an era of material possessions to an era of the heart."<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With such ideals in mind,
I joined a franchise for a painting leasing business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They even managed to get third place in a national contest.
However, reality was harsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can't live on ideals alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultimately, this project failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But at that time,
I met two business leaders who I will never forget in my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of them is the president of a local trading company.
The other person is the chairman of a franchise group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chairman was the former president of Kabaya Foods in Okayama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once had a meal with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had given my daughter some Kabaya sweets,
The chairman was very pleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
"It's important for you to start by learning the hard work involved in making money."<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally, a debt of nearly 10 million yen should have remained,
They exempted me from many of those obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that moment, I thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A truly kind person is,
It means a strong person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the job of a manager is
Perhaps it's one way to grow as a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After that, I went back to working for a company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His experience was valued,
I was hired as a new business development manager in the Environmental Business Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However,
It was by no means an easy environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you don't produce results in three months, you'll lose your position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was truly an environment like "sitting on pins and needles."<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevertheless, I have achieved results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But at the same time,
"I won't be staying at this company forever."
I had that thought somewhere inside me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around this time, I ended up changing companies several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working in a semi-independent manner,
I worked for three different companies over a period of about seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My salary strangely increased every time I changed jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, behind that,
I had great support from my family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moving after getting married,
I've done it more than ten times, including starting my own business and launching new ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each time, my wife said,
They set up their new life without a single complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the children were young,
She even worked for us part-time for a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other than that,
I did not want my wife to work outside the home.
I've managed to get by somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think I was lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife wasn't very good at accounting or administrative work.
However, his kindness as a person was second to none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My husband and I,
They are probably one of the most harmonious couples in the world.
I secretly think that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was baptized into the Catholic Church before I got married.
My wife was also baptized before we got married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife had a unique sensibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I first entered the church,
They said the altar looked like it was bathed in light and sparkling.
I was deeply moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking about it now,
My wife may have had a special sensitivity even back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after getting married,
We rented a room near my parents' house and started living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mother is a very good cook.
They also ran a small restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day, he gave me two Kobe beef steaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the dish that was served was
It was a deep-fried steak that looked like it was swimming in oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife comes from a poor family.
I had never eaten steak before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It's a story that still makes me laugh when I think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, now,
My wife is a very good cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything I make tastes delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was young,
He hadn't realized that his wife was a treasure given to him by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, I even worried about it at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How foolish that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently,
This goddess-like kindness of my wife,
I've come to feel this especially during difficult times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right now, my greatest pleasure is,
It's going for a drive with my wife after work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife loves hot springs,
I'm going on a short trip visiting shrines and hot springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Probably an ordinary couple
I'd say it's about ten times that amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In such a life,
I'm finally going to Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a business unit manager at a venture company,
We launched a drinking water business using groundwater membrane treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This business grew rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Six months after the establishment of the business unit
A contract worth one billion yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subsequently, the business grew to have an annual turnover of 5 billion yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually, the company was absorbed into a subsidiary of a large corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, this technology is precisely what
This would later become something I would work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groundwater air conditioning technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It became the origin of [something].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drinking water business using groundwater membrane treatment is
The industry as a whole had an annual turnover of around 20 billion yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I thought...<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This technology was applied
The market for renewable energy air conditioning is
It's a hundred times that amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now,
I have returned to this business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life is,
It may seem like we are taking a roundabout route,
Perhaps in the end, we will return to the path we started on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It's as if water
Like returning to the sea in a long current.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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