When Shoji Morimoto was a worker at a publishing company, he would get repeatedly chided for doing “nothing” at the job.
Fed up, Morimoto decided to turn “nothing” into his career.
The 38-year-old makes a living, and makes enough to provide for his family, by doing, in his words, “absolutely nothing.”
Really, he rents himself out to lonely folks just so they won’t be alone. He charges 10,000 yen, or about $71, to just be there for his clients, His services have ranged from riding a see-saw with one client at a local park to sitting at a restaurant with a woman who feared her Indian sari would embarrass her friends if she wore it in public to simply waving goodbye to one destitute traveler.
Per The New York Post, Morimoto said of his career, “I started wondering what would happen if I provided my ability to ‘do nothing as a service to clients. People tend to think that my ‘doing nothing’ is valuable because it is useful [to other people].” “But it’s fine to really not do anything.
“People do not have to be useful in any specific way.”
Morimoto makes as much as $300 in a single day, and over the past four years has booked some 4,000 clients, which equates to about $284,000 earned simply by doing nothing!
There are some things Morimoto just will not do, though: He won’t take requests for anything sexual, and has turned down jobs to move a refrigerator and travel to Cambodia.
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