Last year only about a third of Japan's college graduates were able to find full-time employment.
He was then offered full-time employment by the company and as a result gave up his architecture studies.
There are benefits to being free from the constraints of full-time employment.
They are often older people who have retired from full-time employment.
The remaining 10% chose the military or full-time employment with private business.
Last September, the company agreed to give contract workers with three years' experience full-time employment.
Only 1,515 were in full-time employment, and 188 of those worked exclusively from home.
I was out there for at least two years trying to find full-time employment.
It forces 3 million who want and need full-time employment to work part time (usually 15 to 20 hours a week).
I was finally free to take full-time employment from American companies.