There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

Author:Kikuko Tsumura [Tsumura, Kikuko]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781526622235
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

What was more, the name of the woman who had written in was Fujiko, which was deemed a very strange coincidence. Ms Ōtomo had brought me a letter that related a similar story, so I guessed it must be the same person.

The newspaper clipping was stuck up in the entrance hall outside the Rice Cracker Museum, and the sales team started adding it into their sales pitches to clients. It turned out that they had never explicitly mentioned the trivia before.

A week after the article was published, we were contacted by a journalist from the lifestyle section of a newspaper company, who came to interview the director together with Ms Ōtomo, and Ms Sakemoto from product development. I was asked if I wanted to come along too, but I refused, saying that I didn’t really have anything to contribute. I was up against it with my work as it was. Unlike with the other kinds of trivia, writing Ms Fujiko advice necessitated researching various arguments both supporting and countering all the suggestions I was considering making, which made it all the more time-consuming. Added to that, I was struggling to find topics about which Ms Fujiko would plausibly be knowledgeable. Broken plates were okay, but I could hardly have her talking about repairing electrical appliances; and while she might know a thing or two about how to make crispy tempura, a Japanese woman of her ilk was not likely to know how many minutes to cook spaghetti for.

Since starting the Ms Fujiko job, I’d come to the realisation that I was really bad at giving advice, and that I knew absolutely nothing about anything. More and more, I’d find myself stopping mid-task. Now, even when writing copy for the other series which I’d previously got through at a handsome pace, my research became increasingly detailed and I’d stall because I couldn’t find any conclusive evidence, eventually abandoning the topic entirely.

As if inversely to my job performance, sales of Ms Fujiko soared. People throughout the company were celebrating, and there were even rumours circulating of special bonuses. As all this was going on, I sat there in my office behind the Rice Cracker Museum, worrying about my ever-diminishing work rate.

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