From Oct.1

On October 1, I will be hired by a company in Tokyo as a permanent employee.
For newcomers, the company hold a ceremony and trainings in two days.
I will fly to Shikoku where the company's laboratory is present.

This is the first time for me to be employed as a permanent worker.

I am not young as a fresh newcomer. Who cares?
I can watch and learn many things and ask anything to anybody around me.

Sounds so exciting.

small trip

After spending three days in Kansai, before I left for Tokyo,

I had a small trip to Tokushima.

I booked a bas ticket and went to Tokushima.

The destination was a museum. (Otsuka Museum of Art)

There is a museum along the beautiful beach of Naruto in Tokushima.

The museum has a great collection of world famous masterpaintings

which were reproduced on ceramic boards.

Using a special manufacturing technique, the paintings are created with the same size of the original art works.

When you enter the musium, you can enjoy full-sized reproductions

as if you enter in a art book!

That was a fantastic experience to me.

Traveling alone in such a sunny day near the beautiful ocean is really great.

my work

I have moved to Tokyo about 7 months ago.
This is the first time for me to live in Tokyo, alone.
I was working for the company as a temporary worker dispatched from an agent.
Now, I am about to be hired as permanent employee.

my job

I work at a Japanese pharmaceutical company as interpreter.
I work for a project that the company is engaged for a global clinical trial.
The trial is conducted in Japan, Korea and China.
In this multi-national study, our project team is developing medicine for patients with respiratory disease.

Aug 17, 2009

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I am still working in Tokyo at the same place for the same job.

However, things become complicated a little.

First, my job contract will be changed on October.

So far I was hired by IG, but the contract was expired last week.

Now I have lots of free time till October!

I can do anything.

What will I do?

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Three months have passed!

I spent busy days for the last three months.

Last week, I visited South Korea to attend a conference
on business trip with my collegues.

This was the first visit to South Korea.

We had a pulmonary function test training. We went there
as a sponsor, and we invited PFT training trainers and
trainees from medical institutions.

I will go to there on June again.

Nest time, we will have a CT scanning meeting
with radiologists and respiratory doctors.


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April, 26 Sunday

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I have many teleconference at work.

As an interpreter, I attend the teleconference to talk with people
from China, South Korea, Singapore, Belgium, Germany and U.S.

When I have a teleconference with people from Washington,
I have to go to my office at 8:00AM.

When I exchange email with a vendor from Germany,
I sometimes stay at office till 11:00PM.

It is busy, quite busy, but so far I enjoy. I have a fun.

My boss works in Beijin.

He works far away from me with one hour time difference.

Every day I exchage email with him and make phone calls
and sometimes see his face on televideo.

I was a little bit worried about this situation first,
but right now I am accustomed to this situation, I guess.

Working globally is sometimes not easy. Sometimes I feel alone.
Even if I feel the necessity to be around with my boss,
he is not here.

However, before losing confidence to work with this team,
getting working skills and working smart is the biggest goal
and eventually this is for him, too.

Working in this team gives me lots of fun, lots of tasks, so I can learn a lot.
It is fun to me. So far.


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