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Just thought of sharing my take after reading amnosxmatsujun's translation of the following:
http://amnosxmatsujun.livejournal.com/63405.html
It's a translation from a TV Guide's staff blog, which in summary highlighted Aiba-chan's work ethic and attitude and show how he is off screen. Despite his busy schedule, he read through the questionnaires given to him beforehand (51 questions of questionnaires is no joke especially when you have to think how to answer it politically correct and those answer have to cater to the target market intended), prepared his answers (and I don't think they're just short answer of 5 words judging from the way the staff blog's written) and when he met the staffs, in which slotted at the end of his day, without showing tiredness, he smiled and offer to run through his answers with the staff. Having read that, it's a no wonder why people want to work with Arashi. It's the professionalism and their appreciating people around them despite them being on the top now.
Now, how many of us will do the same if our boss ask for status meetings at the end of the day? How many of us will prepare things wholeheartedly before that meeting? I'm definitely guilty in all of that and I've come to a point that I don't even prepare for those meetings and just brisk my way through from on top of my head because... oh so many reasons. So, this piece of translation pokes my conscience to reflect on my current work ethics. I don't think answering questionnaires is something that Aiba-chan likes, especially if you have dozens of similar questionnaires from various magazines and you have to remain consistent while giving different variety of answers and again, catering your answers to the target readers.
It's not much different from us. Similarly, we have lots of things that we don't like from our work, at least for me, not because I totally hate my work, but just because it's so tedious and めんどくさい that we're used to call it 'dirty work' but somebody still have to do it. Yet to have the same level of energy of enthusiasm to do those dirty work is really difficult. In other words, Aiba-chan just showed me that I need to buck up my level of professionalism in handling my job and shame on me if I'm not able to do so because his schedule is definitely much more hectic and chaotic (though he got PAs to organize it for him, but I also have at least a shared secretary helping us so that our meetings don't clash) can maintain the consistent level of work ethic, why can't I? If he can make time within his schedule to do something like that, why can't I make time reviewing more things in between my meetings?
Truly something to reflect on...
http://amnosxmatsujun.livejournal.com/63405.html
It's a translation from a TV Guide's staff blog, which in summary highlighted Aiba-chan's work ethic and attitude and show how he is off screen. Despite his busy schedule, he read through the questionnaires given to him beforehand (51 questions of questionnaires is no joke especially when you have to think how to answer it politically correct and those answer have to cater to the target market intended), prepared his answers (and I don't think they're just short answer of 5 words judging from the way the staff blog's written) and when he met the staffs, in which slotted at the end of his day, without showing tiredness, he smiled and offer to run through his answers with the staff. Having read that, it's a no wonder why people want to work with Arashi. It's the professionalism and their appreciating people around them despite them being on the top now.
Now, how many of us will do the same if our boss ask for status meetings at the end of the day? How many of us will prepare things wholeheartedly before that meeting? I'm definitely guilty in all of that and I've come to a point that I don't even prepare for those meetings and just brisk my way through from on top of my head because... oh so many reasons. So, this piece of translation pokes my conscience to reflect on my current work ethics. I don't think answering questionnaires is something that Aiba-chan likes, especially if you have dozens of similar questionnaires from various magazines and you have to remain consistent while giving different variety of answers and again, catering your answers to the target readers.
It's not much different from us. Similarly, we have lots of things that we don't like from our work, at least for me, not because I totally hate my work, but just because it's so tedious and めんどくさい that we're used to call it 'dirty work' but somebody still have to do it. Yet to have the same level of energy of enthusiasm to do those dirty work is really difficult. In other words, Aiba-chan just showed me that I need to buck up my level of professionalism in handling my job and shame on me if I'm not able to do so because his schedule is definitely much more hectic and chaotic (though he got PAs to organize it for him, but I also have at least a shared secretary helping us so that our meetings don't clash) can maintain the consistent level of work ethic, why can't I? If he can make time within his schedule to do something like that, why can't I make time reviewing more things in between my meetings?
Truly something to reflect on...
