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Hello. I’m Yasui Shacho, a solo company owner running a business mainly focused on inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
Today, I successfully wrapped up work for the year.
Throughout this past year, I was able to keep moving forward with the support of many people involved.
I am truly grateful. Thank you very much.
The final job of the year was piping work.
I reached out to my mentor and had the opportunity to work together with him.
Since piping work isn’t something I regularly do, I’m not very experienced, and the job itself had a reasonable volume, making it fairly demanding. In that sense, it felt like a fitting way to close out the year.
I’m also deeply thankful to the project manager from the prime contractor for staying with us late again yesterday.
Now that the year is coming to an end, looking back on the past twelve months,
from a work perspective, I feel that there were more jobs this year that couldn’t be handled by just myself and the people who usually assist me. As a result, I found myself relying on help from many others more often.
Once I accept a job, I always make every effort to meet expectations.
However, this year was also one in which I learned that there are things I simply cannot do, and boundaries that should not be crossed.
Even if subcontractors are willing to respond when asked, I learned that requesting unfamiliar types of work can end up placing unnecessary burdens on them and, ultimately, causing inconvenience instead.
There are limits to what I can personally oversee.
And when it comes to relying on colleagues, I need to be mindful of the nature and appropriateness of those requests.
These are areas where I must continue to exercise caution.
In my personal life, I feel that the number of moments in which I sense happiness in everyday life has increased.
Even small chores that my children casually ask me to do feel special when I remind myself that these days are fleeting. By viewing them this way, I can live each day while feeling grateful and content.
With inflation progressing, even grocery shopping has become an exercise in careful selection, and household finances are tight. Still, being able to buy food and eat every day may be happiness enough in itself.
There are issues such as the logistics “2024 problem” and the labor shortage expected in 2025, but countless services and people’s work continue to support our lives—comfortable lives, at that.
I found myself feeling grateful every day that these ordinary services continue to function.
I also became more aware that I do not live in a society of my own making, but rather as one member who supports society as a whole.
Looking back, I think it was a good year—one in which hardships never truly stopped, but I was able to spend my days healthy and fortunate.
What kind of year was it for you?
Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve.
I plan to tidy up the house and give my trusty HiAce—who always drives me to job sites—a good wash.
Oh, and I also promised my wife we’d go shopping together.
I’m looking forward to spending a relaxed day tomorrow.
Thank you very much for reading all the way to the end.
See you again!
