Watashi Rodo Shosetsu Fusai No Juryoku Ni Aragatte

[Machine Translation] We live under the gravitational pull of debt," but if we continue to live to pay off debt, we will lose our sanity. Sit-job. This is a self-deprecating term used by store clerks, caregivers, and other "parties" to refer to their own work. In a society where those who are responsible for the care of others are treated less favorably, and are even asked to shift the responsibility to "have a sense of self-esteem". There is no need to punish oneself. Work, touch others, and connect with them. Wisdom sprouts from the palm of your hand, people are reborn, and the gray world turns color. A series of short stories in which the author, who has had many "sit-jobs," writes sometimes passionately and sometimes sadly about the days of "private labor" in which she discovered herself and regained her identity.

「あたしたちは負債の重力に引きずられて生きている」だが、負債を返済するために生き続けたら人間は正気を失ってしまう。シット・ジョブ。店員やケアワーカーなどの「当事者」が自分たちの仕事を自虐的に指す言葉だ。他者のケアを担う者ほど低く扱われ、「自己肯定感を持とう」と責任転嫁までされる社会。自らを罰する必要などないのに。働き、相手に触れ、繋がる。その掌から知恵は芽吹き、人は生まれ直し、灰色の世界は色づく。数多のシット・ジョブを経た著者が自分を発見し、取り戻していった「私労働」の日々を時に熱く、時に切なく綴る連作短編集。