Comparable to the Social and Ego Changes of 2000-2001

I have experienced a major value change in my social life over the past year. I'm not talking about Covid-19, but talking about a career change. I left a startup where I worked for about 8 years as a director and joined another startup. The title of this article was not clear, sorry.

This was the second major milestone in my nearly four-and-a-half decades of life: the first was at age 26, when I quit graduate school, despite being admitted as a principal, to become a high school teacher, which I also quit after a year to move to a startup. I was immersed in a business that was unique from the start, with people I had never had any contact with before. This was my first startup.

The first company's business domain was education, but with a clientele of people I had barely snatched up in the cultural space I had experienced before leaving college. It was a service for low-achieving children, for which I developed video-intensive teaching materials and, of course, taught the classes myself. I was amazed that the very conversation of empowerment and encouragement had value and brought compensation and profit, and at the same time, it was the first major regret of my adult life. I thought I had a smattering of sociology and demography, but in the end I was unaware of the diversity of society, and I thought I knew Tokyo life, and that for some children in each town (and there are quite a few), the monotonous back and forth between educational institutions and home does not provide them the growth opportunities they need It did not occur to me that the

I might put it this way: I was only discovering problems and not trying to commit to solving them. When I did an inspection of the way I had been living for over twenty years, I realized that I had been doing only what I was good at and, therefore, had made my place in a space where I was easily appreciated, and suddenly I began to think of myself as a boring person. I guess I had prioritized what I was good at and left behind the world of hobbies, obsessions, and ambitions, or I had not developed the physical, intellectual, and sensory strength to move toward them.

With that in mind, I decided to leave my first career. Even though I received stock options and promised to work hard until the company went public. After leaving the company, I became a sole proprietor. The domain of my business started with photography, then advertising, publishing, and journalism. From the time when a very small project bought me a photo for $5 per photo for an agent on the other side of the world, the unit price of my quote was fished out until I was quoted "3 million yen per person per day" for a company with a market capitalization of 3 trillion yen in the course of 6 or 7 years of continuous private business. The eye-catching image in this article is the route of the 2011 earthquake coverage. Earnings from the production of advertising media helped me to make up the deficit in activities that did not require profitability.

However, around the age of 30, I again began to wonder if I wasn't doing work that I found interesting, or if I was only doing what I was good at. That was the reason I got involved with a SaaS startup.