Friday, January 21, 2011

Unusual job

When I was a student, I was mad about skiing. Therefore, I had to do part time job to in order to go to a skiing ground. I did many kinds of part time jobs, for example, selling lottery, hair cut-model, experiment of cosmetics, ski tour attendant, survey passersby etc.
This time, I introduce to harvest SHITAKE mushroom. This is not an unusual job but it's interesting job.
At the first, an employer collected us at midnight, then, he took us to a mountain which was located in Mie-prefecture. It took us about 4 to 5hours from Osaka. On the middle of the mountain, we were had a lecture about our job. The job wasn't difficult but it wanted me to instantly measure size of mushroom. And we were given a quota that had to fulfill 3large baskets within 4hours. In the moutain, we couldn't recognize the time because of a little sunlight, so, I warked very hard. By the time of the end, I had a high pride with mushrooming for I thought I could become an expert. I felt thoroughly satisfied.
However, miserable things came later. When I closed my eyes to go to sleep, my brain flashed back mushrooms figures as a ghost. Moreover, I was not able to sleep and eat for 3days.
After graduation, I got a kind of usual job, I think.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, Rie, what a great story!

    You do not think that being a mushroom harvester is unusual???? I think it is pretty unique! I am sorry to hear that you were haunted by mushrooms after you farmed them :0 that sounds spooky.....

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  2. I'm interested in selling lottery in Japan (not in Thailand because we don't have different style).

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