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Dialogue "Tarzan Yamamoto ×Toudoukan Director" 6.
6. "Ticket Acquisition Agency"
Director: I burned out once at the Hokuto Flag, and when I looked around, I saw that everyone had already started looking for a job in the middle of three years.
Tarzan Yamamoto: That's right! I was in the film studies club, and I had a passion for cinema
In the third or fourth year, people around them start looking for a job, and they are trying to be incorporated into society.
It's going to be transformed. I'm going to make my youth look like it's for a limited time.
Director: That's right.
Tarzan Yamamoto: On the other hand, I felt a kind of despair.
So, what have you been doing for the past three years?
This is it. That's what it is, and it's going to go into society. It's come to my head, isn't it?
Director: Fufufu
But even after my fourth year, I had no intention of getting a job at that point. After graduating, you can start a business for anything.
I had an unfounded confidence that I could do anything.
Anyway, I should start my own business. But I didn't have anything specific to do.
Tarzan Yamamoto: yes yes
Director: So, while I was doing various other activities other than KARATE, I happened to know someone who had a connection.
There was a person who was doing business alone.
There was a president who was doing something called "ticket acquisition agency business". For example, a ticket to Takarazuka, a ticket to a giant game, etc.
Tickets to concerts of popular artists, or tickets that are difficult to get due to competition,
Tarzan Yamamoto: I can't take Takarazuka.
Director: They take care of reservations for tickets that are difficult to get on their behalf, use a special telephone line machine, quickly connect them to the ticket pier, and get them as soon as they go on sale.
I'll take a ticket for anything. Instead, I will give you a fee of 3,000 yen per ticket.
There was a president who was actually eating with it.
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's a rare profession, isn't it? Amazing, isn't it?
Director: It's a little suspicious
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's very suspicious. It's a way out
Director: But I have to think about how it works and earn money and eat.
I was impressed by what it means to live on your own.
While I was impressed, I asked the president, "Please let me bite you too."
He said, "I'm going to pull the customer, so if you can get it, give me a part of the 3,000 yen, 500 yen."
Many people usually apply for two tickets, so if you can get it, you will get 1,000 yen back out of 6,000 yen.
If you can get 10 cases a day, you can get 10,000 yen. 20 cases will cost 20,000 yen. If you can earn 20,000 yen, that's a pretty good amount of money for a student.
That's how I calculated it (laughs).
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's hard to earn 20,000 yen a day as a student
Director: At that time, mobile phones were just starting to become popular, so I signed up for my first mobile phone and made a flyer.
I wrote "I'll get a ticket!" by hand in dirty letters (laughs).
At that time, we were able to use the printing press of the Student Government Association, which was still in charge of leather maru, so we printed a large number of them at the expense of only the paper cost, in the same way as printing flyers for a circle.
I go around general residential areas in Tokyo and Sting it steadily (laughs).
That's what I tried to do.
That was my first "game" with "society". It's like being baptized into the ring of the market.
▲ Leaflets distributed at that time
Tarzan Yamamoto: Hahahaha, I joined the marketing! Well, it's a dark job. Shadowy business.
Director: Yes. Objectively, it's suspicious, and in terms of conditions, now that I think about it, it's not a story that will go very well.
At the time, I believed that if I worked hard, I would get results.
Well, it was sweet.
If you Sting a thousand sheets, one phone rings.
Tarzan Yamamoto: Hey, it's bad
Director: So, sometimes the phone rings, even if it says "reception hours 12 o'clock ~ 21 o'clock"
It suddenly rings from morning to late night, regardless of the situation.
So, I've never done a part-time job as a receptionist, and I don't know anything about the basics of answering phone calls, so I'm not good at responding.
Tarzan Yamamoto: Oh, I'm not used to it
Director: "Ah, that ~, I'm sorry for calling me、、、 (laughs)" Why are you apologizing first (laughs)
Tarzan Yamamoto: Ahaha. Normally, "Welcome! I've got to be fine
Director: It's a suspicious and unstable response that makes me disgusted. Moreover, the signal is bad and it cuts off quickly.
I thought it was an order, but it was a complaint phone call saying, "Don't post it to my house" (wry smile)
So, even if I managed to get a reservation application, the president couldn't get all the tickets.
There are quite a few things that I didn't get well.
In the first place, it is super difficult to get a ticket even if you pay a fee to such a suspicious vendor.
They say you can take anything, but the actual success rate is about 50%.
Moreover, there were more applications for only one ticket than I expected.
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's a mess
Director: In the end, with all that effort, I could get about 10,000 yen in one month. If you subtract the phone bill from that、、、
Tarzan Yamamoto: There's nothing left
Director: I tried my best for a few months, but it was not profitable. It's difficult to do business in real life.
Also, I was really disgusted or shocked by my inability to do as a member of society before the sale.
I reflected deeply on it, and that's when I thought about it.
This is something that you need to learn about once and for all.
I need to study.
Until then, I thought there was something in the extension of Pro Wrestling , martial arts, Nagabuchi, visiting used bookstores, and delving into my hobbies.
I don't think I can grasp anything if I continue like this.
In the future, I want to start a business, but if I don't get a job and study society, it will be so bad.
Tarzan Yamamoto: You have to study within the organization
Director: I thought so, but at that point, I was in the second half of my fourth year, and the job-hunting period was almost over.
This needs to be reorganized.
That's why I decided to repeat the year on purpose for another year until the fifth grade.
That's why I start preparing for job hunting a year later.
Then, around December of my fourth year, I received a message in the mailbox of my boarding apartment saying that if I graduated at the last minute, I would be able to get a job in time.
I said, "I'll still be able to put it in." I said, "I can be an editorial writer for the media."
Well, I thought it was suspicious because the address was Kabukicho, but I thought it looked interesting.
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's suspicious. It's like a sex industry
Director: That's right. So I went to the briefing session. When I went to take the course, there were about 10 students who had not been able to get a job offer so far, and they participated in the information session.
In the middle of the explanation, a person from the company actually comes out.
"We're a sex magazine."
Tarzan Yamamoto: Of course! It's a sex newspaper.
Director: "If you are not comfortable with customs, please go home." Then I got up from my seat about half and went home.
But I was very interested, and I was listening to the story while taking notes in front of me, and after the briefing, a person from the company came up to me and called out to me
He said, "Actually, I'm from Waseda, so if you don't mind, let's go out for a drink."
That was my first OB visit.
Tarzan Yamamoto: Hmmm
Director: He tells us a lot about the sex industry, the stories behind covering it, and the hardships he faces.
I thought this was interesting, and I wondered if there was a life like this.
My feelings start to shake a little, but on the way, I get a call on the OB's cell phone, and I'm yelling at the person on the other end of the phone (laughs).
He smiles and talks to me in a gentle voice, but when he calls me, he suddenly changes and yells with a scary face.
It's complicated. I wonder if this is society (laughs) There are two sides to it.
Tarzan Yamamoto: Hahaha, oh yes. Because there is a difference between true intentions and pre-construction.