I've got an offer mail from an IT company I've been participating in their recruiting process. This is my first time getting an offer from any company, and frankly, it made me ecstatic. It made me ecstatic, for about two seconds, and after that, the feeling of usual life came back in. そしてもう少し心が落ち着くと、どこか鬱々とした感情が、シャツについたシミのように浮き出して、居座った。
Now, that stain on the shirt has spread bigger, and I feel a wierd pain in my back. I hope it will be gone by tommorrow morining, but something assures me it probably won't.
This whole jobhunting thing has been an excruciating stress for me. For about six months straight, there had'nt been a day I didn't worry if I'll be able to get a job at all, if I would'nt end up jobless, die of hunger, alone and miserable. I've met a load of adults in the course of 就活 and a very few of them appeared to me as a decent human being. The other majority were either sadists, narcissists, or complete morons.
就活を通して一つ収穫があったとするなら、それは現代の資本主義社会における独自の言葉の使い方や考え方のテンプレートのようなものを知ることができたことだ。S先輩であればそんなものはクソ喰らえだとか言うのかもしれないが、少なくとも半身をこの資本主義社会の中に浸かりながらとりあえずは生きていこうと思っている僕からすれば、それはやはり、苦しみと自己欺瞞の代償に得た、生活の有用な道具なのだろう。
To be clear, my jobhunting has'nt finished yet. I still have upcoming interviews for two companies and one of them is my first-choice company. I'll try my best with those two companies, but now that I have one 内定, I can confront them without much burden on my shoulder.
明日からは第二章が始まる。そこには異なる苦しみがあり、異なる惨めさが存在しているのだろう。でも少なくとも、俺は多少なりとも自分の苦しみに対する責任を持つことができる。それはまず、苦しみとしては、まだまともな苦しみの部類に入るのではないだろうか。