I worked late today. This morning, after the daily English Zoom session, I went to the main house of my group home. There I talked with the admins about several topics such as purchasing a small, reasonable radio or trying to find any used newspaper to enjoy to ease my mind (or, to kill terrible anxiety). Certainly, every "work-late" day, especially in the morning time of it, even now I have to struggle with a certain pressure or anxiety (therefore, to get rid of them, I join the Zoom English session). The admins said they would try to find any interesting ones to read. After that, we wrote a letter to get the extra money this city could afford.
After that, as a trial of my new morning activity, I enjoyed the BBC's podcast program "6 Minute English" for a while on my smartphone. This week's content was about how young women use social media such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. However, definitely, my listening skills in English were still so poor that the narrator's English was too fluent for me to follow it. But the content was really interesting, therefore I enjoyed it a few times to train my ears to get used to it.
From 1 p.m., I started today's work. During the work time, I thought about how I could have/keep the "professional" spirit with my job. As I've written, I've done this job for about 20 years (or more). Once, when I was young, I thought my job must have been a sort of "bottom" class job (oh my!). In Japanese, we have a unique word to describe workers' reality as "a company slave [社畜]". However, even though I actually have some claims/complaints I want to share with my friends and my admins, I never want to use that word to blame my company/workplace, nor to use that word to describe my work... I believe it must not be a "labor".
Today, my job coach and I saw each other at the workplace again. We discussed several things a lot. I won't get suspicious about her diligent, honest efforts for me at all. However, TBH I couldn't trust her fully even at that time because of my doubtful personality. So, I decided to try to "rush" myself to tell her about several things as honestly as I could. She accepted them all. It's really a great time.
