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[Gollum] Busy 263: People who light up the dawn of the city <I'll clean it for just a year>
"The reason I clean the art center is because people visit this place, and I want more people to come The more I cleaned the harder, the more people hated it, the more I hated people coming in. I came up with a feeling that no one would touch the place I cleaned. Yalta miwotda for nothing.
so I hate myself for some time while the people have no sin, suddenly noticed the spirit seemed to stick in my view to the wrong, "cleaning is the one that is not working to clean things serve the people ..." I recalled again that it was not for the toilet, but for the people that I was cleaning the toilet. I tried to use myself again and again."
I am in charge of the'Friendly Economy' section in SBS's morning news program [Morning Wide], so I go to work every morning. When I go to work, less than 1% of the people who will come and go to the SBS headquarters building all day are not present. So, until you arrive at the company and enter the news studio, the people you meet and greet are set. (People who go to work at that time have a uniform movement.) People in the dressing room and dressing room, and the environmental cleaners who clean the floor of the press office.
It's actually something I didn't notice until dawn. Each environmental cleaner is assigned to a designated area and cleans at a certain time. So, an early morning commute like me meets the same person every morning to get acquainted. Then, overnight, the area in charge changes and another person comes. "(Oh, he was so kind...) Where did you go?" I am asked about things like this, and I am grateful for sharing oranges and so on.
That's what I came to realize by saying hello to the people who clean the office every morning and sometimes even having a short conversation. That the company is cleaner than our home. ㅎㅎ I never noticed the'cleanness' before going to work at dawn. As always, it seems natural that the trash can be empty, the sink is dry, and the railing handle is shiny without a handprint. But it can't be natural. Unless you pick out a time when people aren't there, clean up, and take a break in a cramped space where most people, except for early morning commuters, don't see it, your office becomes a terrible mess in half a day. Often I feel it again every time I go to work on the weekend. How unpleasant is a company on days when beauty workers don't go to work? Just yesterday afternoon, it was so clean.
After the early morning work, I came to realize that the beauty salons, who have a great influence on my environment, move carefully in a system designed to avoid encountering other people as much as possible. After seeing this once and becoming conscious, it became a little stuffy. I haven't even cleared up my thoughts until I can just tell you how the system should change, but I think it's a more'natural' thing to stand out more with each other. And I found out that vacuum cleaners are always run by men, and most of the beauty salons are women, and as a kind of leader, I have often seen the man give instructions. I wasn't able to intervene and ask, but I couldn't help but wonder how the'sequence' and'work division' were decided.
The book I want to read together today is a hot new book published on September 18th, [I will clean it for just one year]. Ji-eun-yi Choi Seong-yeon graduated from a well-known university's college of music, and is a theater actor, a New Year literary writer, and a yoga instructor who appeared in hits such as [Taxi Driving] and [Come to see me]. Having been recognized for such a variety of work, he wrote about what he felt and learned when he quit all activities and started working at the beauty salon where he could earn a stable income when he was exactly 50 years old.
“At my age, I lived a year as a cleaning worker. The reason
I wanted
to make money was the biggest, but that wasn't all.
…….. At
that
time, I was upset because there weren't a few audiences who came to watch even if I put my dedication on the stage. I used to say,'Why can't people afford to come to see a play?','Isn't there too much interest in culture and art?' But after a glimpse of the warlike life of salespeople, I realized that it was truly stubborn to bring theatrical and cultural arts to
such people, thanks to the bloody tax subsidies provided by such people
.
When I came to the idea that I was able to do what I wanted to do in the name of artistic activity, I felt guilty and embarrassed. Looking back, I saw the world in an overly simple composition and moral vanity was considerable. I suffered from a sense of original sin against this. It is relatively recent
that I
became free from this.
At
that
time
, in
order not to become the limit to joining art, the beings that I came up with as mirrors to reflect on myself were farmers and cleaners."
""Most young people don't have long enough to quit."
"I think cleaning is valuable. It's about helping people by keeping the environment hygienic and clean. Because I have these values, I can work happily while feeling rewarding for a long time... … "
I wanted to talk too much, but I thought it would be better to show a strong figure, so I was trying to finish, but a question asked if I could clean the toilet. At the moment, I was very embarrassed. Why? It is natural to clean the toilet in a beauty salon. Even when I was interviewed to do the cleaning job, I thought I wished I didn't do as much as cleaning the toilet in my mind. After leaving behind a lot of thoughts that passed by, I replied with a louder voice.
"Of course. Of course you can!" "
These essays are said to have been popularly published on OhmyNews under the title of'The World When You Sweep and Clean'. Honestly, I didn't know when it was published. There is a preconceived notion that the books that are collected and grouped together in a series of columns (there are often very cool books) are divided into interesting and non-interesting topics to some extent. However, I can tell you that [I will clean it for just one year] is fun and content is even from start to finish. It's not long, but I really read it all in one place. Though careful, clear and plain writing was comfortable throughout. When I went to work at dawn, I met environmental sanitation workers more often than other office workers, and the thoughts and thoughts I thought were,'Is this the feeling of being noticed?' It appeared without exception to the extent that I wanted to. There were also questions about familiar scenes and situations that could be answered'Ah, that was this kind of thing', and there are things that the author still has about the questions I had. The author's reflection on him also unfolds with a sense of weight.
“Mihwawon's older sisters, who had been doing cleaning work for a long time, were already learning how to work with their minds. You must have experienced and realized that things will not work properly if you don't share your mind in what you do with your body. Rather, I think that it is'doing you.' I have a mind to take care of the space and the people who use it. I don't have the knowledge and skills, so I don't raise my body heavily by complaining about cleaning more, "Oh, if I don't remove it, "What will this be?" He stood up, saying, "Once the payment of the requested equipment was delayed, the necessary detergent ran out, but an older sister bought a detergent with her own money. I have to'clean' but I don't have detergent, so I bought it. I was inclined to say, “I have to give it to me.” There was an
absurd instruction that
I was
told to pull out all the grass from the bottom of the bench on the grass. why should a useless thing did not wholly understand all forced on bringing one complaint seureowotjiman which I have complained all into yet unplug the pool, but my sister will put somehow ukyeo heart eda doing it.
"But It looks neat after doing this. Isn't it better than not doing it?"
I was amazed. Two thoughts came to mind. At first, I wondered if the fox, who learned that he couldn't pick up the high grapes, was consoling himself that those grapes must be sour grapes. But sooner or later, I thought it was precious to try to put my heart into what my body was doing:'If I want to make money, I have to do what I tell him to do. Isn't it much healthier than to lament and lament?"
If you are an office worker who has taken for granted something like a smooth corporate bathroom, a dustless corridor in a large building, or someone who has ever worried about'where and what will I be doing tomorrow'? , I think that in this book, everyone sympathizes with and wants to be in close contact with, and the dignity as a living person. These are wonderful articles that remind you of various aspects of so-called work ethics that you suddenly realize and worry about as a worker, professional, or professional. I think about the professionalism of cleaning and the expertise of each of our jobs, which we all work hard on. Also, I came to think once again that it would be a good idea to change the work world of the US Hwawon in a more positive direction, which is a part of the work that is part of the work that is moving in a system that should not be conspicuous while showing such expertise.
The excerpts and reads from [Busy and Bukkake] are the passages in the early years of the year when the artist Seong-yeon Choi learned the expertise of Mihwawon in his body and mind. They are the ones who honestly confess that when they do something they haven't done, no matter how smart and calm they are, even when they are fifty years old, there are times when they become'stupidly' with false words. Maybe it's not that people can continue to grow if they always make little by little things that will experience such'stupidity'. After reading [I will clean it for just one year], I am reminded once again.
Seongyeon Choi is said to have made travel expenses with the money he earned while working as a beauty salon for a year. Because of Corona 19, he couldn't take that trip, and he published a book.
The book concludes with the words that he seems to have received
"
a
gift of a magic broom"
while working on a new horizon where he could not travel, but he did not know existed
. I think I know a little bit of that feeling. We may not all experience the new horizons that Seong-yeon Choi has opened, but you can look into it in this book.
*I received permission to read'Wizdom House'.
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