During the last couple of days I have met with new students and former students at work. While the new students don’t really know me well enough to talk about, my former students (and repeating students) are very surprised about my recent move to Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Apparently there was some sort of announcement made that included all the new employees from April, and my name was included in the list. And in Japan, foreign names really stand out in a list.
I guess the hardest thing for me to adjust to is that now all the people at KHI are co-workers, not customers. When I first started working there through a staffing company, I always had to keep in mind that KHI was paying my staffing company to have an English teacher there. They weren’t paying to have Bryan Fredricks there – just an English teacher. In other words, I could be replaced in a second. Now that KHI has bought the cow, so to speak, and I’ll be doing my best to make sure that they are satisfied with the investment.
