On Part-time Jobs

    by haruki Murakami

    translated by Copher Allison

    udent, -time  to make it plain, at t  150 yen. “e” cost 80 yen, and comic books  100 yen. Since I just boughe money I made working, I could buy one record for every day-and-a-half of labor.

    Noo a 300 yen cup of coffee, tandard  time  looks as t price tle. You can buy th one days labor.

    If you just look at t seems like our standard of living ten better in ten years. From a lifestyle point-of-vie t o take part time jobs, and t hell.

    Numbers are really complicated. You cant alrust ing Office tells you. GNP is a total s entrance of Sation and let anyone o come up and touc t . But s of t, I cant trust anyttle substance.

    In t, I takemura (politico-economic pundit) and Kakuei tanaka (former prime-minister) are amazing. t to use numbers t said tuation o t extent,  one notebook will suffice.

    Anyill remember t I boug-time job of my scened to tedly. But it  t really mattered; tant ty.