様々な分野でグローバルに活躍する「普通の人々」が体験を語り、次世代の普通の人々のお役に立てればと思っているサイトです。

日本在住歴約40年のRon McFarlandと外資系勤務が長い齋藤信幸が、それぞれの海外体験を語ります。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (2-e) : 学費、生活費・・・お金の問題を解決する。

2022-05-22 10:30:15 | Ron's Life Story
またまた蒲田で飲み会。飲み会が目的か、セミナー開催に向けた打ち合わせが目的か、多分、両方。



さて、RonさんのLiife Storyの続き。

まずはお金の問題の解決から。学費ローンは、現在の米国の学生の問題の一つでもあります。

So, I decided to go out and get some kind of part-time job, which would keep me active and stabilize my finances. I got a job as a security guard at a refrigeration plant. You can’t get a more boring job than that! For insurance reasons and safety, this refrigeration facility needed security guards around the clock as a person from the local bar may wonder over to a freezer (which is the size of whole warehouses in which fork lifts can drive in and out of) walk in and freeze him to death. I had to walk around the facility once an hour and had to clock-in at various locations. It took about 15 minutes per hour. There was also a weigh scale there for truck to weigh their produce, as they brought produce into the storage areas. So, I weighed trucks the rest of the time. I worked from four o'clock in the afternoon to midnight, and really had nothing to do about 45 minutes of every hour.

私も学生時代にビル管理の夜勤のバイトをしました。結構、いい収入になりましたし、勉強の時間も作れた。一方で、親から十分な仕送りをもらっている人が羨ましかった。

The average person who took a job like that was about 60-65 years old. It was a mindless job, but for me, it was ideal, as I could study and get paid at the same time! I did that for about two years and came out of college with not only a degree, but also a bank account that was relatively healthy.
I did have student loans, but I was able to pay for them off within one year after I started working full-time. During that period, the government was offering very favorable student loans. My mother needed some extra money, so I got some loans just for her also. She was giving our home in Sacramento to my sister and moving into her own apartment, so she required some cash. She paid me back within a year as well.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。











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