Chapter 34: Becoming a CEO (6)

“Ara-ssi.”

“Yees….”

“Say what I said today one more time.”

Ara, who had been scolded for half a day, repeated the story she had heard so many times from Hiro.

“If you don’t know well, just don’t use spacing….”

“Why was that?”

“Because the spelling checker fixes it better if you don’t space at all than if you space a lot….”

“Good.”

Hiro didn’t add anything else, probably satisfied now.

At Hiro’s words that it was good, Ara thought that she was finally free.

“I’ll check the spelling carefully from now on. Should we set aside time for a regular meeting?”

“Eueh…eueueh….”

“You don’t want to?”

“No….”

Listening to Hiro’s words, it seemed that today was just one of the many difficult times to come.

Ara groaned in frustration, but Hiro didn’t care and just smiled and notified her.

“And now that the basic explanation of spelling is over, don’t worry.”

“Waaa… that’s a relief….”

“Then from next time, I’ll tell you the parts to fix about the video itself, so take a rest today.”

“…Are there many parts to fix in the video too?”

“Hahaha.”

Hiro just laughed at Ara’s question.

“Rest.”

“…Neeee.”

Hiro left the Miscode call first, and Ara was able to follow suit.

There’s no law that says you have to, but the social life style that’s ingrained in her doesn’t change easily.

“Ugh… I’m doomed….”

Ara felt that something was seriously wrong.

“I never thought I’d be learning while being scolded like this….”

Until now, when she edited videos as gifts for other streamers, they all liked it, so she had vaguely thought that it would be similar this time.

But after being scolded by the boss today, she realized the reality.

Until now, they liked it because it was a video they received as a gift.

Now that she’s in a position to edit for money, the standards are bound to be completely different.

Ara could now understand why people say not to make hobbies into jobs.

“I thought the conditions were too good!! Ugh… should I say I can’t do it even now…?”

Ara clutched her head and threw herself on the bed.

Lying on the small bed that takes up most of the narrow studio room, her head hurt when she tried to think about what to do in the future.

She didn’t have the confidence to do the editing job properly if she continued to do it like this, and it was hard to find another job because of the current situation.

She couldn’t afford to be picky about jobs when her living expenses were tight.

Ara picked up her phone and made a call to someone.

【~♬♬♪】

The basic call connection tone that hadn’t been touched came out of the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hanaaayaaaa….”

When she heard a familiar voice over the phone, Ara called the other person’s name, crying.

“What’s wrong, Araya? What’s wrong?”

“Hanaaaya, I think I’m in big trouble….”

“Yeah….”

Ara explained the whole story to Hana, and Hana listened to Ara’s words to the end and then repeatedly confirmed that what she heard was correct.

“So, you went in as a video editor for someone who broadcasts on the internet this time?”

“Yeah….”

“But you don’t think it’s right for you to work?”

“When it was a hobby, I just did what I wanted, but it’s so different now that it’s a job….”

“Hmm.”

Hana hesitated for a moment, then warmly embraced Ara.

“That’s right, Araya, they say it’s hard when hobbies become jobs? It must be hard, our Ara.”

“That’s right… It was fun when it was a hobby, but it’s so hard when it becomes a job and I get criticized for the videos I made!”

“How’s the treatment? If the job doesn’t suit you and the treatment isn’t good, you should just quit quickly.”

“The conditions are good– I didn’t ask about experience separately, and I said I would support everything I needed to work, and I might raise the pay later….”

Looking at Ara saying that’s why she was worried, Hana said as if she was sorry.

“Ara, you would have been fine if you had gone into modeling in high school… It’s a shame, really.”

Hearing Hana’s words, Ara clicked her tongue.

Her face and body proportions were decent, and she was tall, so she had been offered a job.

But

“I had to earn at least a little money right away, how could I go to a modeling academyㅡ”

“That’s right… that’s why it’s a shame.”

The reality wasn’t easy.

Ara, who was a high school student at the time, was in a situation where her family’s livelihood would be at risk if she didn’t work part-time.

She had to skip the mandatory night self-study that almost all high schools forced at the time and work part-time, so it was not easy for Ara to follow the school’s progress, let alone go to a modeling academy.

“Still, you have to somehow protect your savings. It’s not long now, is it?”

“I think there are about 3 months left…?”

“Then let’s try our best for at least 3 months! You might be able to find another job during that time?”

“That’s right, Hana is rightㅡ.”

Ara agreed with Hana’s opinion without much thought.

In the first place, Ara would have known what to do.

She just wanted to hear those words from someone she trusted and be comforted.

【~♪】

“Ung? Wait a minute, something came.”

“Okay~”

Ara brought the phone that was on her ear to her eyes.

Judging from the icon displayed at the top of the phone, it was a deposit and withdrawal message.

Was there any money going out today?

Since she was living a life of tightening her belt, Ara knew exactly when and what money was being withdrawn from her account.

Even so, she couldn’t guess what the deposit and withdrawal message that just rang was.

No matter how much she thought about it, there was no money coming in or going out today.

To satisfy her curiosity, Ara unlocked her phone and checked the deposit and withdrawal message, and Ara’s eyes widened like a rabbit’s.

[Deposit and Withdrawal History / Deposit 400,000 won – Hiro (Year-end Bonus)]

Ara, who checked the deposit history, was dazed for a while and then checked the messenger.

There was a message from Hiro, the boss, in the messenger.

[It’s the end of the year, and we’re going to work together, so I deposited it as a year-end bonus.
I don’t have a good situation right now, so I couldn’t put in that much, but I look forward to working with you in the future.]

“…I have to work hard.”

“Okay~ Fighting, our Ara!”

[Thank you, boss! Happy new year!
I look forward to working with you in the future!]

“…I wonder when I’ll be able to distinguish between ‘to’ and ‘eh’.”

I sighed after seeing the text Ara sent.

Still, I couldn’t point out the spelling even in private messages, so

[The new year is still far away.]

I held back by only subtly appealing to it.

‘Still, she won’t have any nonsense thoughts for a while, right?’

I tried to be as kind as possible because it was the first day, but I was secretly anxious because I couldn’t stand the spelling of the video that Ara had edited and yelled at her in many ways.

I didn’t have that much social experience, but I had experienced the situation where people who made mistakes or were scolded from the first day disappeared without saying anything the next day or ran away, leaving only the words that they couldn’t do the job.

I thought she would definitely run away if I left it as it is, so I quickly took action, but….

When the balance came into view, a headache came.

“Tablets and year-end bonuses… I spent a lot of money.”

But I didn’t regret it.

Hiring people, especially in the early stages of starting a business, knows that there are a lot of initial costs, so I was prepared for it.

But whether I was prepared or not, the expense was still a burden.

How many people can smile while looking at the numbers in their bank account being cut down little by little?

Still, I was able to decide to hire someone this time because the loan review was successfully completed.

If I received a jeonse loan in addition to the money I had saved, I would be able to move and invest the extra money in broadcasting?

Broadcasting is a business, so if you don’t do anything, you slowly dry up.

Especially when it grows a lot in an instant, it disappears like a bubble if you don’t make proper investments.

I knew that fact, but I couldn’t touch the money, so I couldn’t invest in broadcasting until now….

Fortunately.

This time, I was able to hold on while maintaining the number of viewers until the loan review was over.

Yeah, I’ve always lived with hardships, but there should be times when things work out well!

“It would be good to organize it in advance to teach video editing.”

For tomorrow, I turned on the video that Ara had edited and sent and made a note of the parts that needed to be fixed.

[Since I pass out when I drink alcohol, I won’t do a drinking broadcast….]

Aoh.

Looking at it again, there were more spelling mistakes.

[ㅡ Meanwhile, some are of the opinion that it is necessary to regulate loans to control housing prices.]