At the age of 33, which is a significant milestone for me, I happened to catch the dream of ten years ago.
Digital Transformation
I became 33 years old. I have no time to be deeply moved, but I have been promised the most exciting experience of my life in my day job and university since October.
As best as I can write, I am assigned a very responsible role as a lecturer for skill enhancement training which is for hundreds of employees, including beginners in databases, to master the use of MS Access, etc., and to be able to create EUC tools that can withstand actual work on their own, as part of a project for a client company. As DX has become a buzzword in today’s world, I believe that this kind of initiative, which aims to raise the data literacy and market value of each individual, rather than simply renewing systems and improving operations, is essential and significant. I am very much looking forward to being involved in this project, and I hope to do my best.
Planned Happenstance
It was an honor to be recognized simply for my work experience as a financial IT engineer. Not only that, is it a coincidence that I have a high school teaching license for information science, a card that I thought would remain in the dust and never see the light of day? It is indeed a bitter memory that I had seriously dreamed of becoming an information science teacher about ten years ago, but what I have learned from many teachers in this process will never betray me, and it can be a trigger to attract something unexpected. I am often asked, “Why did you start volunteering at the aquarium?” Actually, the roots of this question lie here. When I was an undergraduate student, I had the opportunity to study mathematics and information science as much as I wanted, even though I was a physics major, and I earned enough credits to graduate twice. In the process, my motivation to give something back to society through civic activities and my determination to join a career in the financial industry came naturally.
It is the season of entrance examinations for graduate schools. What is the purpose of all the effort we are putting in now? As I wrote in my last article, we may stop thinking only about whether or not it will lead to the future. Instead, I think one of the axes that we should respect in this age of unpredictable future is “whether it is something that I really enjoy doing now.” The experience of steadily accumulating grounded work in such an area will surely come in useful in some way in the future, and if anything, the opportunity to utilize it will naturally come near us. Even if we were to take the approach of just letting our passions and pursuing straightforward results, it might work in the short term. However, any corner-cutting in the system development will be exposed very quickly and will not lead to good results in the long term. After all, I wouldn’t know whether this project had been successful or not until long after I was gone from the project.
Defining solvable problems
The previous year was not only the great amplitude but also the enormous differential of acceleration. It was a year full of hatred without exaggeration, where I faced a really massive reality in the way I dealt with each of my work, community, and family. In such disappointment, one opportunity led me to disclose the truth that I had never shown to anyone before, and as a result, I was able to define my “difficulty in living” as a solvable problem that can be linked to the abnormality of my way of efforts, which is a big step forward. I have drawn my own past life chart in various workshops, and I always told a universally acceptable fiction about the first half of my life. As an instructor, it is tempting to let the trainees do it as soon as possible to get to know them, but I realized once again how shallow and unreliable the insights we can gain there are.
Due to my unstable mental state, I wondered if I should take a leave of absence, but in the second semester, I am going to go into the specialized subject of Mathematics, Finance, and IT by myself as a compilation of the past 15 years. I’m used to diving into classes in other academic divisions, so I have absolutely nothing to fear. When the textbook was written by the professor who taught me finance when I was an undergraduate, it got my blood pumping. After finishing my master’s thesis, I will continue to reinvest in my skills to upgrade my base further. My hidden quiet enthusiasm is still alive, and the blood is almost dripping from my fists, which are clenched in my calm face. I appreciate your support this year as well.
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