What do you work for?No. 12

Six Job Offers in One Month — Turning Gratitude into Action

My parents paid dearly for my four years and eight months in Canada. So the moment I returned, I started job-hunting — no break, no "finding myself." In one month, I had six offers. I had no academic credentials to boast of.

What I had was my own story to tell: leaping abroad with zero English, learning from friends, finishing what I started. And I had a deadline — "repay my parents quickly." People with deadlines move sharply. Gratitude is expressed in words, but repaid in action. Who do you want to repay — and what action will your gratitude become?

What do you work for?

— Tomoki Nagano, Chairman & CEO, INSTINCT BIO TECHNICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ: BIOT)

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