…and other ‘spicy’ books for women

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Leaving the job/homelessness in Japan/some rambling thoughts about AI

Flawed but enjoyable finale to the franchise

Why

Common everyday things that annoy me

Short-staffed/fear of a nasty summer

Rocky, Aliens, Seven

An angry tourist/here comes the heat

Open plan vs. open air

An extract

My first day off sick

Minarai: Rosco and I

I won’t change my mind

I won’t change my mind

How I hate ye fucking things

Catch up on my blog about cleaning train stations in Japan. This is Part 28, in which I open my first full paycheck. Subscribe to read more about my coworkers, my money challenges, and manual labour...

I open my first full paycheck

Needles and heat

First full payday

The immediacy of manual labour

Hope and addiction

The immediacy of manual labour

A world without cleaners

Have I been unfair to Japan?

Details of the job/feeling poor/a low quality beard

Reckless plastic bag placement/stabbings

Alcohol

Ambivalence

Lunatics in the rain

Loner at work/helping tourists/LinkedIn: a wacky corner of clown world

Shitty pants/Noisy sneezers/Losing my sense of time

A couple of interesting conversations/stray thoughts/everyone addicted to their fucking phones

Incest porn at the old folks’ home

Gripes about management; back to freedom; ‘rousai’ repayments

Post-injury return to the grind

An odd dinner, new trainer, and trip to the hospital

An aside about job options

Sadness, debt, and empty apartments

YouTube video by Phantasmal Bard Studios

Invited out by a stranger

This is a fun, well-written series of short articles based on adventures of an author from the UK working at a new job in Japan’s rail stations.

Bit of a rant to start…

Training as a cleaner – day one

Some gentle motivation for you

Cram School Cleaner Interview and Talking Toilets in Public