Office Work Supporting Event Sites

I work in the event industry, handling administrative tasks. It's a shift-based job. My main tasks include managing shifts for equipment and personnel, processing invoices, and sending request forms to carriers.

The reason I joined was because someone who was a teacher at my vocational school recommended it to me. They said something like, 'There's this company, why don't you give it a try?'

Well, mainly mass media-related subjects. In our department, we studied things like direction.

Originally, I wanted to do something like direction in mass media, but when I actually studied it and felt it wasn't quite right, the company that my school teacher recommended was there, so I thought, 'This is perfect.'

Well, basically, it's routine work where I repeat what I've learned every day, so I think it suits me. Rather than doing new things, once I get used to it, I can do it more efficiently and quickly, so I think routine work suits me better.

First, I check emails and the company's communication tools to see if there are any new messages. If there are any changes in the schedule for tomorrow or today, or if there are any new requests, I start dealing with them. After that, I check if there are any new requests on the software we use in our company. If there are any requests, I deal with them. The main task is to create request forms and send them to the relevant vendors for communication.

Since the counterparts are often machines, such as cameras or lighting systems that can be controlled with a single button, there are many irregular situations. For example, it's not necessarily true that someone with 10, 20, or 30 years of experience can do everything. Maybe it's unique to our industry that someone with 1 or 2 years of experience might notice and fix minor issues. That might be a bit irregular.

When sending emails to carriers or workers, since they are from other companies, I need to be careful about my choice of words and phrasing to avoid being rude. That's when I use my head the most.

When my colleagues say 'thank you' to me, and when I receive my salary.

When there are 3 or 4 urgent changes that need to be made immediately, and I have 2 or 3 of them piling up, thinking 'Oh no, which one should I do first? I have to inform them within the next hour,' I feel like I'm about to crash.

Probably the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, although we were supposed to work from the office, we were told not to come in, so I set up everything on my home computer to work from home. I think I won't forget the experience of working from home for about half a year.

No, I don't think I'm doing anything too difficult, so I don't have any dissatisfaction. If I had to say something, I would like to work remotely.

Well, I think it's something to earn money.

Well, in terms of time, I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, so I think work probably takes up about 50% of my life in terms of time. But in terms of mental aspect, work as a concept probably takes up 50%, but including my current company, it's probably less than 10%.

If you ask me that, I don't really want to work remotely all the time, and although I'm in Tokyo now, I want to go back to Shizuoka, my hometown, so I don't think I'll continue working here forever. But I think I'd like to continue doing administrative work.

Well, I think administrative jobs involve a lot of routine work. Although systems, times, and machines may change with the era, the tasks themselves often don't change much. So, rather than focusing on the tasks, I think it's better to consider human relationships and the environment, such as whether the workplace is far from the station and difficult to commute to.

I really want to be completely free. I want to have a work-life balance where I can decide to work only 2 days this week or work hard for 6 days this week.