There is no job without anxiety.

Meku Gunji, giraffe researcher (@AnatomyGiraffe)

Whenever I give a talk to junior high and high school students, I always ask them, “Weren’t you worried about going into a maniacal field? or “Weren’t you worried about choosing an unstable job?” I am always asked questions like “Weren’t you worried about going into a maniacal field? I feel that “How to deal with your own insecurities” is a very important skill, although I don’t think it gets as much attention as the ability to build relationships with others.

• I think it is important to know the root of anxiety within oneself and to deal with it well, because it is impossible to make all kinds of anxiety disappear.

• Today’s middle and high school students may be sensitive to “social instability” because they are the sons of the generation during the ice age of employment.

• As for “anxiety about choosing an unstable occupation,” I had quite a few classmates who changed jobs within a few years of starting their careers, so I thought, “There seems to be no such thing as an absolutely stable occupation anymore. If that is the case, I thought that doing something fun would be closer to my happiness.

• As for “anxiety about going into a maniacal research field,” the more people there are in research, the more competition there is, so I didn’t feel “anxious because I am a maniac. Rather, I have an image that rule of right fields seem to be more difficult… I think that niche and maniacal fields were more suitable for my personality.

• I am also often asked “What are some of the difficulties you have faced in your research? This is because the joys of research are often difficult for a third party to relate to, whereas the difficulties of research are often “easy to understand,” such as hard work and human relations.

• I’d rather hear about the fun than the hardship~!

• By the way, I have given a relatively wide range of lectures, from private elementary and junior high schools to public junior high schools, from JST-subsidized projects to events at local children’s centers, etc., and this is a question that is asked universally everywhere. I have never been asked by adults, so there may be a common view among working people that “There is no job without anxiety.

• Increased competition by selecting major areas

• anxiety

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