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Blue-Eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi
by Niall Murtagh

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 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8218721?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars Bought this a few weeks ago and apparently forgot to register it. Very good read - another different look at life in Japan, almost the male version of <A HREF="<a target="_blank" href="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4906826">The">http://bookcrossing.com/journa...</a> Accidental Office Lady</A>.
 
 <A HREF="<a target="_blank" href="http://www.travellingcari.com/2007/10/22/a-frog-in-a-well-knows-not-the-ocean/">A">http://www.travellingcari.com/...</a> frog in a well knows not the ocean</A> indeed, really made me think of Japan in general.
 
 "Foreign students are visitors. Visitors should not stay too long in faraway places or they will forget to go back." Really sums up the ex-pat life well and makes me wonder about the future of some Nova fossils.
 
 "Your hobby is something outside of work that you do at least once a year. If you do nothing but watch TV and sleep, your hobby is what you did, at least once, when you were a student." Then why on earth is sleeping a favorite hobby? If I had one yen for every time I heard that I'd be independently wealthy.
 
 This was a very interesting read, I can't imagine life as a salaryman to begin with -- although he made the point that 'real' salarymen don't have blue eyes - and certainly can't imagine working for a Japanese company for fourteen years. 
 
 Timely read with the demise of Nova.
 
 Possible ring.
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status: Read in October, 2007 — I have a copy to sell/swap

Bought this a few weeks ago and apparently forgot to register it. Very good read - another different look at life in Japan, almost the male version of <A HREF="http://bookcrossing.com/journa... Accidental Office Lady</A>.

<A HREF="http://www.travellingcari.com/... frog in a well knows not the ocean</A> indeed, really made me think of Japan in general.

"Foreign students are visitors. Visitors should not stay too long in faraway places or they will forget to go back." Really sums up the ex-pat life well and makes me wonder about the future of some Nova fossils.

"Your hobby is something outside of work that you do at least once a year. If you do nothing but watch TV and sleep, your hobby is what you did, at least once, when you were a student." ...more

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