Work-life balance

 I managed to get a job at a bank, but I quit after a year and a half. The reason is not because I turned to religion, but because I realized 

"I couldn't be happy there. "

The eyes of all the superiors at the branch are dead. There's no sparkle in their eyes. And the one thing they say casually is, 

"I want to live a life like a human being." 

The female employees are better. They're general employees, but they're not too bad. Where does that difference come from? It's because 

"they can leave work almost on time. "

The male employees work overtime until late into the night. That's what makes them feel exhausted. And they're exhausted by life. In the end, it's a problem of 

"work-life balance." 

If your work-life balance is broken, you won't be happy no matter how big a company you work for. Everyone judges their happiness or unhappiness in life just by the title of a first-class company or a large company, but I think they're just looking at things superficially. Now I work as a freelancer, so people often say to me, 

"Maybe you should have stayed at the bank,"

 but that's not true. I never want to go back to that place again. My senior from university was a branch manager, but he never looked happy. He was like, 

"Why did you come to a place like this?" 

to me. It was like he was saying, 

"There was another (better) life."

Even if I had been successful and become a branch manager, I would have been like, "Oh, no. I can see my future now." In the end, it's very difficult for salaried workers to maintain a work-life balance because they can't decide the amount of work they do. Capitalism means that companies have to pursue profits to the maximum extent, so the pressure to pursue profits is constantly weighing on employees as excessive quotas. As I said before, the capitalists think, 

"Don't let people live, don't kill them." 

In other words, corporations are

"don't let employees live, don't kill them"

in other words, they are corporate slaves. Moreover, this trend seems to be spreading not only to corporations, but also to all kinds of workplaces such as public servants, schools, and hospitals. In any case, 

"the collapse of work-life balance"

can be seen everywhere. If you really want to maintain work-life balance, you have no choice but to become independent so that you can decide your own workload.

So I became a freelancer. I am treated as a "self-employed person". And I lost all the social security and benefits that companies provided. The company no longer protects me. Also, whether I get work depends on my skills.

However, I'm proud of my work-life balance. It's perfect. Or rather, it's my only good point.

If anything, I feel like I'm too biased towards life. I'm "a person who is content with little", so I feel like "this is enough" for my income, and I often turn down work that I'm asked to do, even though I'm sorry.

My ex-deputy branch manager also told me, 

"You're living a luxurious life."

 Even though he earns much more than me. No matter how much you earn, if you don't have time, it's not a luxurious life. Also, my friends often contact me secretly and ask me for advice, saying, 

"Actually, I want to quit my job, too." 

But the job depends on your skill, and there are no guarantees, so I tell them, 

"Yes, it's surprisingly good, but I can't recommend it to others." 

Because it's not guaranteed that everyone will succeed. Also, this job is bad for public opinion. I'm sure it helps people, but it's too plain. So, you're probably wondering what kind of job I do, but I can't tell you here. This is supposedly a religious blog, so if it's discovered that I'm doing that kind of thing, my clients will be put off. Especially in Japan. I used to do this kind of blog before, but somehow it was discovered (it seems like the company is investigating it too), and after that I stopped getting work. I was frozen out. So I'll leave it to your imagination.