Eventually, I resigned from my baito (part time job) at a cafe. The reason I told my manager was what I am starting to look for an official job so I don’t have time to do a part time job anymore. However, the real reasons are more complicated.
Indeed, my studies in school are becoming heavier and heavier, not to mention my personal projects. In fact, people around me rarely work in a restaurant or cafe. They may have a part time job or internship in a start-up firm or a decent company. Most of them don’t do part time jobs in the first place for their low cost performance. You see, my salary is only 30,000 yen a month.
On the other hand, I’m not able to bear the weird human relations and discrimination. For human relations, it’s not easy anywhere on the earth anyway, so I don’t have too much to say about it. However, the manager taught everyone including several freshmen how to use the cash register except for me. This is the thing I couldn’t accept the most and made me really uncomfortable. I don’t want to regard this as a Japanese against foreigner thing, but I couldn’t think of any other reason.
I am about to start my job hunting, which means this part time job will be my last baito. Except for the time working at the shrine, when I think back on my part time job career, there were no successes. It was the opposite, I lost my faith in Japanese companies or even Japanese people. My part time job makes me looks really contradictory. On one hand, I claim I love Japan more than average Japanese people. On the other, I keep away from Japanese companies when I do job hunting.
My failure with my part time jobs frustrated me a lot. People including my family think I am lazy and useless because of that. A part time job is regarded as essential for college students, but it makes no sense. I don’t know how the experiences in a cafe will help my career at an audit firm or a bank in the future.