2nd week of unemployment

After nine months, he finished his final petrol-station shift, felt liberated, and entered unemployment after recent low energy. Translation work arrived rapidly, providing income from Japanese skills but proving stressful, time-consuming, and difficult with scientific or medical texts. Without work’s routine, he feels lost, keeps a 5 a.m. bedtime, struggles with productivity, and remains ambivalent about returning to Japan.

Autonomy reduces stress, but removing employment also removes structure, exposing recurring home-versus-social-life tension.