There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job Quotes

“Nobody's life was untouched by loneliness; it was just a question of weather or not you were able to accept that loneliness for what it was. Put another way, everyone was lonely, and it was up to them whether they chose to bury that loneliness through relationships with other people, and if so, of what sort of intensity and depth.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Whoever you were, there was a chance that you would end up wanting to run away from a job you had believed in, that you would stray from the path you were on.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“There are pitfalls like that everywhere, lying in wait to trip you up. The more feeling you put into your work or whatever it is you're devoting yourself to, the more of them there are.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“The time had come to embrace the ups and downs again. I had no way of knowing what pitfalls might be lying in wait for me, but what I’d discovered by doing five jobs in such a short span of time was this: the same was true of everything. You never knew what was going to happen, whatever you did. You just had to give it your all, and hope for the best. Hope like anything it would turn out alright.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Nobody’s life was untouched by loneliness; it was just a question of whether or not you were able to accept that loneliness for what it was.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Accepting those ups and downs, choosing to take on difficult jobs - that's what life is about. That was the conclusion I came to.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I just felt like I didn’t understand a thing any more. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, what I was living for.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I didn’t have a diverse body of work experience, but as time went on, I’d come to understand the simple fact that every single workplace had an entirely different set of people working there.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Now, it struck me that this feeling wasn’t specific to the profession that Mr Sugai and I shared. Whoever you were, there was a chance that you would end up wanting to run away from a job you had once believed in, that you would stray from the path you were on.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Nobody’s life was untouched by loneliness; it was just a question of whether or not you were able to accept that loneliness for what it was. Put another way, everyone was lonely, and it was up to them whether they chose to bury that loneliness through relationships with other people, and if so, of what sort of intensity and depth.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Accepting those ups and downs, choosing to take on difficult jobs – that’s what life is about. That was the conclusion I came to.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Whoever you were, there was a chance that you would end up wanting to run away from a job you had once believed in, that you would stray from the path you were on.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I wanted a job that was practically without substance, a job that sat on the borderline between being a job and not. The sort of job where there was no chance of a genteel old lady with more time on her hands than she knew how to deal with showing up out of the blue and saying, ‘You look so tired!’ and ‘We’re counting on you!’ Above anything else, I wanted a job I could do alone. I knew that I’d need to leave that stipulation behind me at some point, but at least for the moment, that was how I felt.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Which is more important, I wonder: not to be lonely, or to live the life you've chosen for yourself.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“needless to say, money was of utmost importance to me right now. I had no idea when I might burn out next.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“There are pitfalls like that everywhere, lying in wait to trip you up. The more feeling you put into your work or whatever it is you’re devoting yourself to, the more of them there are.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“My job was really tough, but I’d always manage to get through the challenges it posed. And yet, I had the sense that another thing would always be following close on its heels. As soon as I’d crossed one mountain, another would appear, even higher than the first. I think to a certain extent, I’d accepted that was just the way it was,”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I’m thirty-six too,’ I blurted out, with no idea why I was confessing something like that at this juncture. Mr Sugai looked at me, tilted his head slightly and said, ‘You look younger than that.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I liked this job quite a lot, but I ended up feeling unconditional respect for anybody who engaged in their work with such passion. I was all too aware that such a trait was destined to cause me a lot of hardship in my working life.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“As far as the easy job in the small hut in the big forest went, things were going smoothly, although the job was so lacking in complications it was probably impossible for it to go any other way.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Put another way, everyone was lonely, and it was up to them whether they chose to bury that loneliness through relationships with other people, and if so, of what sort of intensity and depth.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Which did she really mean? Or did she mean neither? Maybe it was all just meaningless conversational fluff – or was this what they called a double bind?”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“The Black Bean Curry Koban from earlier this year had a series on the World’s Baddest Women, with the packets I examined featuring Agrippina and Bloody Mary.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I got the sense that he wasn’t a bad sort, all told. Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn’t always a bad sort.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Feeling a sense of futility I probably didn’t need to feel, I squeezed together my hands in my lap.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“Of course! Whenever you want to talk, we’ll be here,’ he said, his eyes glinting. The way he said it reminded me of a shop person saying, ‘Have a nice day, please come again!’ and I felt glad I hadn’t shared my worries with him.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I smiled at him. I’d never done a job with a sales-like element to it before, but there was something I found enjoyable about behaving this shamelessly.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“We think it’s important that people enjoy themselves when they’re eating crackers.’ ‘Well, yes, of course.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“I wanted a job that was practically without substance, a job that sat on the borderline between being a job and not.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job