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I Got Fired After 90 Days, But I’m SO Happy Now.
One book made me deeply think about my life and change the way I work.
Hi, I’m Yuichiro Aoki, a 24-year-old Japanese man living in rural Japan as a software engineer. Today, I’m going to share with you how I got fired last year and why I’m so glad to get fired.
Couldn’t Do the Job I Wanted to Do
I got hired as a software engineer at a tech startup selling medical software applications in Osaka, Japan in May 2020. Back then, I have little experience as a software developer, so I was pretty happy to get a job offer from them. However, I never got to write code or even see them, which I wished to experience. If a software engineer, working experiences do matter to your career and job satisfaction. I was installing the company’s application on clients’ computers, and that doesn’t mean anything like a working experience for a software developer. I was so excited to code at the job before I start to work, so the gap was extraordinary for me.
One Lesson from a Book
If you have a 9-to-5 job and don’t like it, every day is so depressing, at least for me. One day, I read a book on the way to the office, and that book changed everything. The biggest lesson I learned from the book is as…