Shoji Morimoto decided to start a business in which he accompanies people in their daily activities, charging 10,000 yen per ‘session’.
A Japanese, called Shoji Morimoto (41) has a private job accompanying people for doing nothing else and getting paid for it. It would be about renting yourself out to others, and you earn up to 185 euros per accompaniment. “Basically, I rent myself. My job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and not do anything in particular.”Morimoto stated.
“There are many favorite moments in this job, such as when I receive an offer message, when I meet a client, when I accompany a client to an unknown place, when I simply listen to a story and feel happy in every moment”, he confessed to CNBC.
Japan: the man who rents himself
Morimoto charges between 10,000 and 30,000 yen (equivalent to between 61.80 and 185 euros) for each side dish. In the last four years it accumulated about 4,000 sessionsbetween two and three hours each, which led him to earn around 80,000 euros last year.
Most of your clients contact you through the social networkwhere it already has hundreds of thousands of followers, although a quarter are regular customers. In fact, one of them has hired him about 270 times.
Among his ‘tasks’ are those of accompanying a person who wanted to play in the park or saying goodbye to a stranger with a smile through the train window. However, there are requests that Morimoto rejected: some have to do with traveling, carrying out heavy transportation, or acceding to intimate requests.
Thanks to this job, he, his wife and his son can live
As Reuters explains, Morimoto previously worked in a publishing house and was often reprimanded for not doing his job and spending long hours doing nothing. For this reason he decided to offer his ability to remain idle for other people and, in addition, to be able to obtain an economic benefit from it.
Thanks to this job, he, his wife and his son can live, although, He declines to reveal exactly how much he earns, although he says he sees one or two clients a day. “People tend to think that my ‘not doing’ is valuable because it is useful to others… but in reality it is okay to do nothing. People don’t have to be useful in any specific way,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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