Taro's Blog

Continued from This Is A Call

Yesterday, on Day 10, I finally received my provisional license for the Large-sized vehicles. That meant I was allowed to drive a bus on the public roads as a trainee with an instructor. Cool! I am on a path to complete the course on Day 16.

Driving a bus is, unfortunately, my dream job, but not my calling. It will be my new hobby. On a very boring Saturday, I would rent a bus and drive around a town with my son and a Jazz trio as the only passengers. Not a bad hobby. I can also be a volunteer bus driver in an emergency situation.

I was going to take over my father’s printing business in Tokyo. I went to RIT and got a BS degree in Printing and Applied Computer Science for that. Unfortunately, after a couple of years working for his company, both my father and I realized that we could not be business partners. Thus, I left

Somehow, the “Applied Computer Science” of my degree became handy, and I got a role in Denver, Colorado, for Quark Inc., the developer of QuarkXPress, the standard prepress application to layout pages for magazines in the 1990s.

To make a long story short, I’ve ended up being an IT guy across the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia.