An Old and New Business I finished reading a book titled "an old and new business" by Jun'ichiro Shimada. This book is about his business. He started a publishing house when he was 33 years old. He had been focusing on buying and reading books and writing a novel since he was 20 years old. He won a novel contest held by a university when he was a senior at the university. Then he stopped looking for a job. He got a job for his first time when he was 27 years old. He tried in vain to change jobs even though he had applied for a job fifty times when he was 33 years old. Just around the same time, his cousin, whom he got along well, died. So he decided to publish a book of a poem, "Death Is Nothing At All" by Henry Scott-Holland for the parents of his cousin. 島田潤一郎の『古くてあたらしい仕事』を読み終えた。この本は彼の仕事について書かれている。彼は33歳の時、出版社を立ち上げた。 20歳の頃から彼は本を買い、読み、小説を書く事に集中した。大学4年生の時、大学主催の小説コンクールで1等賞をとり、就職活動をやめた。彼が初めて仕事についたのは27歳だ。33歳の時には、50社に応募したが転職できなかった。それと同時に、仲の良かったいとこが亡くなって、彼は、いとこの両親のために、ヘンリー・スコット・ホランドの『さよならのあとで』という詩を出版することに決めた。