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  • Good morning!

  • Welcome to a new work vlog of the year.

  • There have been a lot of changes since we last spoke.

  • One of the biggest ones would explain why

  • I'm speaking so quietly.

  • As of yesterday, a lot of schools across Japan have suspended their classes.

  • Boomer is actually doing tele-school...

  • His language school is doing online video courses

  • to make sure to people don't have to do any unnecessary travel.

  • For this video, I thought I wanted to show you more of my office life

  • and the bentos that I pack every day,

  • and like, I want to show not just my remote days,

  • but more of what my office days are like.

  • Um, but I can't really do that.

  • My work schedule has been...interrupted.

  • I've been told by many of my contracts

  • not to come in, to work remotely.

  • I have a meeting today, so I am going into the office,

  • and I think I am going in a couple more times this week to one of my other contracts,

  • but

  • we shall see.

  • I'm not personally worried. I'm not personally scared.

  • I'm just generally frustrated and kind of exhausted because

  • it's like everywhere you turn

  • all you hear is more about people getting sick,

  • people getting hurt, being scared, people cancelling plans

  • people cancelling travel...

  • This was supposed to be a big year for Japan.

  • This was supposed to be a big year for me.

  • And...people are stressed. People are anxious.

  • And a lot of people are actually being hurt by this.

  • Not so much even healthwise, just like economically, socially

  • I've been reading on Twitter a lot of people who are contract workers

  • basically said that

  • their contracts, because they can't go in this month,

  • their contracts for March are cancelled.

  • So, a lot of people are out a full month.

  • Me, personally, I'm okay.

  • This whole toilet paper this is ridiculous. But I actually ran out...

  • I was on my last roll, and,

  • when I heard the whole announcement that they may be canceling school,

  • I immediately bought like liters of water and a pack of toilet paper.

  • And it turned out it was good, because that 8AM delivery

  • was the last stock of toilet paper on Amazon that I can find, so...

  • eesshh

  • I'm good.

  • I'm just kind of grim and depressed and down because

  • every message from my family,

  • every conversation at work,

  • everything,

  • you know,

  • every sign you see everywhere, every announcement on the train,

  • everything, everything, everything.

  • The anxiety about it is really making it grim

  • and exhausting. So...

  • For today, I am going into the office. But I am kind of staggering my commute time.

  • I'm going in a little bit later.

  • I'm not bringing my bento this time

  • because I have been eating so much food at home

  • and I am sick of it.

  • So, instead, I'm going to show you guys one of my favorite things that like to eat by the office

  • since I can't show you my bentos. And...we'll go from there.

  • Made it to work.

  • I'm actually going to take you guys

  • on my lunch break now.

  • Ok. So, I'm taking a little lunch break.

  • I thought I would show what I was going to eat for lunch

  • while I'm eating it.

  • I got a message from Taylor

  • saying that she's actually coming to our closest gym.

  • So, I'm going to meet her at the gym

  • and go to the gym for lunch

  • and then eat my lunch at my desk.

  • Its a bit of a climb though.

  • One of the cool things I love about my gym

  • is that it is...anytime, anywhere.

  • So, I can just walk.

  • I need water though.

  • That's Sports Water,

  • normal water,

  • and tea.

  • I think I'm just gonna go for normal water.

  • No tissues... I just happened to notice that.

  • Hi Taylor!

  • Workout done! Time to get back to work.

  • I lost a little bit of eyeliner.

  • The one downside of having to carry all my stuff

  • is that I have to bring my shoes,

  • my real shoes, my real outfit, and my laptop.

  • I always end up looking like some crazy-like saddlebag.

  • At least I got to see Taylor.

  • It's a lot more fun to go to the gym when I have a friend.

  • Alright, let's get back to work.

  • So, I don't want this video to be all negative.

  • I'm going to tell you some good news that Taylor actually told me

  • that's going to make my life easier the next 2 to 4 weeks.

  • On a good note, today...eww...

  • On a good, note... today is absolutely beautiful

  • it's like 17 degrees?

  • Like, what is that like 20? 60? 65? I dunno...

  • Fahrenheit? I know Fahrenheit.

  • I'm glad it's not raining. Yesterday was really rainy.

  • Today it's not. So if I had to be out and about,

  • today is definitely the day.

  • I'm home!

  • Little confession: I never actually ate my salad.

  • I ended up grabbing a coffee and snack with Taylor on my way back.

  • So, I brought my salad home to have for dinner. Now I want to show you guys.

  • It's not technically a salad. It's a grain bowl.

  • It has kind of like a mexican flair to it,

  • which I think is why its called "Chihuahua".

  • Quinoa, grilled chicken, tomatoes, black beans, like

  • anything with black beans, I'm like "Whoa!"

  • Kale and jalapeños. Pickled jalapeños.

  • Sometimes I just want like a colorful bowl of spice, flavor, and bright and acid and

  • MMM!

  • Look at these big bites

  • texture

  • cheesy

  • Say, "Ahh"

  • Look at that, its like party.

  • Mmm.

  • Mmm!

  • Mmmmmmm!

  • This "salad", from this spot

  • is from one of the first jobs that I got here in Japan,

  • originally, actually, through a friend that I knew in New York.

  • A lot of you guys are asking about my job,

  • and what it is specifically that I do.

  • It's a little bit as colorful as this salad, um

  • but, basically, what I do in Japan isn't all that different from what I did in New York.

  • The work that I used to do is basically, like Biz Dev (business development)

  • and, also...ah...a lot of design elements as well.

  • If you were buildling a website

  • or if you were building an app

  • branding, wireframing, designing

  • graphic designing, marketing

  • you know, the user interface, the UX, the design

  • checking on, like "does it actually work?"

  • Ah, when you working on that small of a team

  • It's hard to say what you do, because, really

  • you kind of do everything.

  • Now in Japan

  • in addition to website and app design development

  • I now, also, kind of do services as well.

  • So, that has been, kind of interesting for me

  • learning how to build a service that's not built around a single app

  • or built around a single product.

  • I mean, at the end of the day everything has a web page

  • and... most things have an app so, it doesn't change much.

  • But,

  • really cool to do the same stuff.

  • but... that's my update.

  • Ahh! Foot cramp! Foot Cramp!

  • "and here's the mail it never fails..."

  • "...and when it ... I ... yell 'Mail!' "

  • ~shout out to Blues Clues~

  • Ok, nobody needed to hear that.

  • Mail time.

  • So, I spent a good chunk of time preparing,

  • traveling to, staying in and filming at the Akita Inaka School in Akina Prefecture.

  • You'll see in the video

  • it was going to language school

  • in like a foot of snow

  • Just seeing all this snow

  • This was actually the only snow I saw this year

  • and I was like, "oh, you're so beautiful!"

  • I'm going to spoil the video,

  • but I will say

  • I lost my lens cap

  • in the front yard of the school

  • while trying to film

  • this... ankle-breaking scene

  • ~laughs~ in like a foot deep of snow

  • so, I ordered a new lens cap.

  • Ohhhhh, baby!

  • We're back in business.

  • This week, I have three days where I have to be

  • in for a meeting

  • one of which was today

  • but the rest of which will be tele-work

  • so, for now I'm going to get back to work.

  • Good night.

  • Hello everyone! It is a new day.

  • So, yesterday, I actually went into work

  • It was a rainy day, and

  • there really wasn't anything to show.

  • We're still kind of staggering work schedules and figuring things out

  • Quick update

  • I did get some new news

  • now, some good news that Taylor shared with me,

  • and I'll show you that in a second.

  • If you haven't guess yet today is another day at home

  • I was supposed to go in today, but last minute, we switched things up

  • Most of my stuff is pretty modular,

  • so if one thing slows down or shuts down, I can just pick up something else instead, but

  • Let me shows you a bit of good news...

  • One of my biggest worries recently was that right about the time

  • when they annonced the whole school closing thing

  • in Japan, right at the time when all that was happening

  • was about two weeks before the tax deadline

  • in Japan.

  • This is my first year doing

  • this type of Japanese taxes on a work visa

  • with multiple income sources.

  • So, I want to, just like I do in the states,

  • I prefer to have my first time done by a professional

  • to study it and then, from then on do it myself.

  • But, for this first year

  • you know, I really wanted to have a professional's eyes on it.

  • And I got an email from the guy saying,

  • "You know, nevermind. I'm not going to do the Japan taxes. But I'll do your U.S. ones."

  • And I was like ...??? I don't need that.

  • For Japan specifically, that's the one thing that I needed.

  • and I was like, "Wait, what am I supposed to do?"

  • You know, alot of people aren't going into the office.

  • alot of projects, even if you send out an email

  • people are starting to get really slow to respond and in

  • whoops!

  • What's with this focus thing?

  • It was a worry for me, because I was like,

  • great, now I have two weeks to figure out how to do my own taxes

  • and or find another accountant

  • but, no one is going into the office anyways...

  • Its tax season, but I was like, is anyone still working??

  • Is anyone still there?

  • I don't

  • I ... I need to be able to renew my visa.

  • When I was talking to Taylor,

  • she pointed me to this little tidbit of information

  • that I didn't realise, is that, the tax deadline was postponed.

  • It was pushed back like a month.

  • That honestly was like the biggest relief

  • because I last minute lost my accountant

  • and didn't know what to do, and

  • whambambambam

  • That's my bit of good news, sounds pretty drab, but

  • Yay!

  • Things being normal

  • being able to do my job

  • and being able to keep things going is all I want.

  • That's all I want at this point.

  • There are alot of resources out there if you do want to do taxes by yourself.

  • Even in Japan.

  • The blue ... 色申告...thing

  • there have been ads all over youtube and

  • oh, my god...

  • As much as we do like to give Japan crap about being in the stone ages,

  • in the last year, its really been stepping it game up.

  • Online banking is now a thing,

  • even with the Postoffice bank.

  • One thing that I was really happy to see is this cool app

  • called "Smart HR"

  • It's basically like your HR hub.

  • and this is where I can get all of my tax documents,

  • if I need to update things about like dependents,

  • my address, any sort of tax, tax, tax, tax stuff...

  • This sort of sounds like a weird ad. This is not an ad.

  • This is not sponsored.

  • But if you want to sponsor, let me know!

  • Its pretty cool. I wasn't expecting to see such a slick

  • looking service here in Japan. And pretty smooth!

  • It's pretty sexy.

  • And I can just download PDFs of all the stuff I need

  • and do my taxes, and be done.

  • So, I am very relieved about that at least.

  • My shining beacon

  • is doing my taxes in peace.

  • The perks of tele work. I can't decide if I find it cute or creepy.

  • But the amount of rare and mythical animals

  • that have been watching me work

  • on these documental days is

  • hilarious.

  • Japanese Uparupa, the Wooper,

  • Its so cute.

  • Hey buddy... Don't worry, I won't miss the deadline.

  • Before, there was a narwhal and a lemur.

  • Now that my office schedule has been kind of

  • rolled back a little bit

  • one thing I've noticed is that my Japanese has become

  • very rusty. Like even yesterday, I was trying to say

  • "I'm worried about the event," and I was like

  • and he's like, "What event?

  • Literally he's looking at me like...??? "What event?"

  • I wanted to say,

  • but I completely forgot

  • So, yeah. I should use more Japanese, because

  • if I'm going to be home so much...

  • But yeah, so that basically where I am now.

  • I have to keep going. Boomer is done with his school for today.

  • Uh, so we are going to keep working,

  • keep getting stuff done, and

  • I'll see you guys, hopefully in a more

  • normal video.

  • Like I told you guys last night, I have the Akita video and

  • alot of other stuff coming up.

  • Like even just stuff like that, like one last round.

  • But, like I have this whole video that I filmed about how to get jobs in Japan.

  • And now its like, are people even interviewing anymore?

  • I'm like worried about is my work, is my job

  • is any of the stuff I am doing even relevant anymore?

  • I worked on the scholarship video because in normal years, this is scholarship season.

  • I thought you guys would think it was in poor taste

  • or, would wonder

  • How KYMI? Does this girl ...

  • I was scared, you guys would think that.

  • But, I'm gonna keep pressing forward.

  • I'm gonna keep doing me. And I will see you guys hopefully in one of the

  • other videos very soon.

  • I'm really excited to show you guys the Akita video.

  • I know you guys are in Sakura (Cherry Blossom) mode, but, hold on

  • for a little bit of beautiful snow.

  • I'll see you guys next week.

  • I'll see you guys next time. Bye!!

Good morning!

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我在日本的工作現在怎麼樣了? (What's Happening to my Job in Japan Now)

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