Abstract

To those of you who go to work every day thinking, "This job could be done by someone else."

◆A direct interview with 20-30 year olds who feel "it could be done by someone else" and "AI will take over."
◆Rethinking the meaning of creating your own work in an era of cost-effectiveness and AI anxiety. Includes 6 worksheets.
◆The first book by Yuuki Tanaka, an embroidery artist with 160,000 followers on Instagram.

"This job could be done by someone else"--have those words ever crossed your mind? A 27-year-old University of Tokyo graduate working at a foreign bank, who was at the pinnacle of cost-effectiveness, honestly faced that question and quit his job. This is the complete record of how he started embroidering from having never even touched an iron and created his own work in a 4.5 tatami mat room. Anxiety about AI taking over jobs, days without a sense of accomplishment, fear of what your boss will be like in 10 years--this book quietly answers those anxieties. For those who want to know what lies beyond stepping away from the right answer.

Author’s Information

After graduating from the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, he joined the investment banking division of Citigroup Securities. He quit his top-paying job and, starting from scratch with no experience even touching an iron, founded the embroidery brand "Kita-ku no Shishuya" (Kita Ward Embroidery Shop) in 2024. He has 160,000 followers on Instagram, and 91% of his works are sold out. With the philosophy of "making carefully and delivering carefully," he aims to become a global brand from his tiny 4.5-tatami mat atelier. Born in 1999, he is 27 years old.