There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

by Kikuko Tsumura

Recently, I’d started pondering the fact that, up front, a bottle of eye drops was actually cheaper than a yakisoba roll. But then there was the chance that if I went overboard with the eye drops, I might have dry eye syndrome by the time I left this job; so if I factored in long-term as well as upfront costs, it was possible that a yakisoba roll was actually more reasonable over a certain number of years. But then there were all the additives and preservatives in the yakisoba roll to think about – I couldn’t rule out that they might actually take an even greater and more costly toll on my health than dry eye syndrome would. So it was impossible to say at this stage which would work out more economical in the end.