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A DAY AT SITE

Administration Department The Project for the Rehabilitation of Kizilkala-Bokhtar Section of Dushanbe-Bokhtar Road, The Republic of Tajikistan

JUN SASAKI

What I Do

There are so many differences of working environment between overseas and Japan. My job as an administrator is taking care of working environment so that our engineers working together can work comfortably and smoothly at a construction site under these circumstances. I have to manage variety of tasks such like financing, recruiting, staff management, procurement management, and maintenance of office and dormitory.

What I Do

Rewarding at work

Administrator working at am overseas construction site have to deal with problems every day as a manager even if you are yet a rookie surrounded by people with different values in an unfamiliar place. This sound extremely hard but working with people who have different point of view is so much fun. Moreover, I feel great when I accomplish something after overcoming challenging situations in a circumstances which are completely different from what I used to do in Japan. I believe that sharing construction technologies with our motto leads to the prosperity of the country not just handing over good - quality infrastructures.

Rewarding at work

Future goals

This is my first time working as an administrator overseas. I feel I should have done my tasks better, but thanks to other crews, I could solve each problems one at a time. There are so many countries that English is not a common language such as The Republic of Tajikistan. So, learning other language is to be mandatory to be a better administrator. Our business spreads various countries all around the world, so I will do my best to be a part of member who contributes the development of these countries.

Future goals

How to spend a holiday abroad

Our crews live in a dormitory together but we all have own private rooms. So, everyone have a fun time by how they want to be like watching series, reading comics, or playing games. Sometimes we spend our day off together. Things we can do in our day off is depend on which country you are, since Tajikistan is safe, we sometimes go sightseeing or shopping malls around capital region.

How to spend a holiday abroad
  • 01 7:00 am 佐々木　淳

    After waking up, breakfast at the dormitory

    This was a plate of breakfast when I stayed a hotel before our dormitory was settled up. Meals at dormitory are served by cooks and they are made by local fresh ingredients.

  • 02 8:00 am 佐々木　淳

    Morning assembly, email correspondence

    We all do radio calisthenics before we start working every day. First thing we have to do is checking e-mails and chats since there is time difference between our site and headquarter in Japan.

  • 03 9:00 am 佐々木　淳

    Meeting with the insurance company

    We have to be sure and prepared for any risks so, we have to have some insurances such as for our construction performances, cars, and accident compensations. We sometimes doesn't have enough knowledge about it especially when we work in a country for the first time. Then, collecting specific information is to be the tasks of administrators.

  • 04 11:00 am 佐々木　淳

    Lunch

    This is one of traditional rice meal called "Palov". Lunch box is served by cooks every day at our office and we usually have it but, since I often have a lunch around town, I enjoy finding new places where we can have some wonderful dishes.

  • 05 12:00 pm 佐々木　淳

    Meeting with Medical Clinic

    It is also important to aware the medical situation of the town in case something happens. Since we have no idea when this pandemic will come to an end, we have to make sure what we should do when some of our crew got infected.

  • 06 1:00 pm 佐々木　淳

    Checking cargos

    Procurement management is also one of our tasks as an administrator. Especially, choosing route and method of shipping cargo is so important so they can be arrived to a distention from Japan or third countries. I checked materials shipped from japan on this day.

  • 07 3:00 pm 佐々木　淳

    Back to dormitory

    After everything was done at capital city, I go back to my dormitory and take a bath. We usually only have shower but, we build up a bath tub to be more comfortable.

  • 08 5:00 pm 佐々木　淳

    Dinner

    Cooks served every meals for us. What we love about them is that they always make dishes by Japanese seasonings not to miss the taste of our homeland.

  • 09 6:00 pm 佐々木　淳

    Refresh Time

    After having dinner together, we all can enjoy rest of the day whatever we want to do. Playing games with other crews, reading comics at my own room, and so on. This is when I was having a fun time by playing games with other crews.