The "company employee" ranks high on the list of occupations that children long to have.

The analysis was based on the fact that remote work during the Corona disaster allowed the children to see what it was like to be a "company employee" by watching their parents work. That means,

-- Parents who work are cool

A parent using difficult business terms, having serious discussions, and attempting to converse in English is "another parent" different from the parent at home.

I believe this is a window to the real society for children, conveying their yearning for society and, at the same time, the harshness and fear of society.

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I was the son of the president of a subcontracted wood furniture company -- that sounds good,

I have watched my father and mother hauling massive custom-made furniture by human power alone in a factory filled with toxic thinner-type gases, the same temperature as a sauna.

From time to time, I also went to help out.

It was an adamant site, so tough that even I, a teenager, could have collapsed in the factory.

There are no words to describe the fatigue and pain of my father and mother, who were elderly.

Still, life was not well-off, and seeing my father and mother in such a state, I could no longer talk to my parents about "money" (school fees).

Having seen the realities of my parents' work, I have come to have both respect and gratitude for them and hatred for a society that does not fairly reward those who work hard.

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A society in which children think, "Parents who work are cool," is a good society.

This is one of the few benefits that the Corona Disaster has brought, and I believe, one of the greatest.