First Reflective Journal
Topic: career&job
Interview time: 1h50min
Communicating tool: Wechat (in text)
Language used during communication: Japanese
|Name |Qian Yiwen (me) |Zhung Byung-tuk |
|Hometown |Hangzhou, China |Busan,Korea |
|Gender |Female |Male |
|Age |23 |26 |
|Status |Graduate student |Seeking jobs with a bachelor’s degree |
|Details |A Former Japanese major, now studying |A Japanese major |
| |English interpreting | |
[Before the interview] Zhung was introduced to me by a friend of mine. Before our first formal discussion, we talked briefly and settled a date and time through wechat(in text).
At that time, I didn’t know his gender. However, I automatically took him as a girl, mainly based on 2 reasons: a) He was very considerate and polite in a Japanese way. At one time, he even used the highest rank of honorific language to me; 2) The emojis he used during our communication are all cartoon girls. So I was quite surprised when we formally made self-introductions in the beginning of our first discussion. In retrospect, however, his wording or choices of words alone weren’t revealing enough to tell his gender. He even told me he was drinking with old friends when we were chatting. It’s the deeply-rooted image of those soft-spoken Japanese-speaking girls I used to dealt with and the girl-cartoon emojis that affected my judgment and filtered information that suggested otherwise.
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[During the interview] After a warming-up chat, first we talked about our choices of career, harmoniously complained about sluggish job markets and tiresome peer pressure, and mourned the death of teenage dreams. Then we moved on to discuss part-time jobs. I listened to him about his fascinating experience of working in a ship factory. Since few students I know take a part-time job, I didn’t have much to share. I told him my personal analysis, that the pays of part-time jobs for students in China are extremely low and are not enough to cover daily expense, so most of us, still receiving supports from parents, think working in a restaurant or Familymart is a waste of time and does not help us in the job market. He’s surprised about me saying part-time job ‘a waste of time’, but agreed students should do things that may be helpful for future job-seeking.
In the end he talked about his 2-year experience in the troop as compulsory duty, which he referred to as ‘a long part-time job in some way that pays as low as China’s student part-time jobs’. When asked about his gains from this experience, after joking about becoming better at using rude words, he said something that made me think. After the 2-year service, he said, there is nothing difficult in this world. All the hard things in his memory are dwarfed by troop life. You grow stronger after being forced to walk for 10 hours into midnight, carrying heavy luggage.
[Reflections after interview] I am struck at the lack of experiences as a Chinese girl. I thought I’ve seen ‘a lot’, but he made me realize that all my life I never left my safety zone–the campus. And that affect our views of the world and ways of thinking.
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I plan to find out more about the differences in the next interview.