Work three times as much as others, but still have time for family!　Dramatic use of AI by a 32-year-old “20 million a year” consulting manager

With the slogan “Career Strategies for the AI Era,” he has been sharing specific examples of AI applications that dramatically speed up work on X and Threads. Mr. Yoshigi’s highly pragmatic and reproducible content from a non-engineer’s perspective has been well received, and he is rapidly gaining followers on social networking sites. He is a businessman working for a major consulting firm and an entrepreneur engaged in AI implementation and career development support business, and his annual income exceeds 20 million yen at the age of 32.

I can handle my current workload and still have time for my family, all thanks to AI, ” he says.

We interviewed Mr. Yoshigisan, a parallel worker, about the benefits he has gained by utilizing AI and his life plan.

The Art of Dual Employment: Main Business x Entrepreneurship

An increasing number of people are choosing to work in “double jobs,” holding two or more jobs and positioning both as their main job. Mr. Yoshigi is one of them.

Both my company job and the business I started on my own are important to me on the same level. I wanted to start my own business, not just a sub job, so I set up my own corporation. I spend more time working as an employee at the consulting firm, but there are months when my company’s sales exceed my salary.”

At the consulting firm where he works, he became a manager at the age of 30 and now has eight subordinates. He has eight subordinates, which is quite a speedy rise considering the current status of managerial promotions in Japanese companies.

The company has introduced a discretionary labor system and remote working, which allows me to decide when and where I work. So telecommuting is possible, but considering the need for communication with my subordinates, I come to work four days a week and work remotely one day a week.

I started the company in 2011, the year before I was promoted to manager. The company he launched now has three main businesses.

One is the operation of an online salon for individuals, “Yoshigijuku-AI x SNS Labo. Based on his own experience of using AI to significantly increase his SNS followers in a short period of time, he provides know-how on how to accelerate one’s career through “AI utilization” and “SNS operation.

He posts a column on AI and SNS utilization at a weekly pace and holds online study sessions once a week. There are more than 40 video contents, and I also publish GPTs and application-specific prompts (instructions to AI) that I have customized to fit the purpose of ChatGPT. We are constantly adding new content, and salon participants can learn every day for less than ¥3,500 per month.”

Another business is training and SNS consulting for corporations.

I often teach corporate training courses on business skills such as project management and documentation (visualization and sharing of processes). When I receive requests for speaking engagements, my monthly earnings increase even more.

Corporate tie-ups and ambassador contracts are also a part of my business; companies that provide AI tools ask me to be their ambassadors when I post information on social networking sites.

From a Dream of Playing Professional Baseball to Starting a Business　A reversal of fortune

When he was a student, Mr. Yoshiyoshi had aspirations of becoming a professional baseball player.

I went to a strong university in the Tokyo Metropolitan University Baseball Federation, but due to an injury, I had to give up the idea of continuing to play baseball. I had nothing else I wanted to do but play baseball, so it was a big setback to have my professional career cut short. At that time, I seriously thought about what I wanted to do in the future.

The answers that emerged as his goals were “to lead a happy life” and “to build a happy family.

Then, what kind of life would make me happy and what kind of life would satisfy me? I faced myself thoroughly and made a life plan from where I am now to where I want to be in the future.

After graduating from college, he chose to work for a general company and joined a major credit card company, where he worked for five years before moving to his current position at a consulting firm at the age of 27.

After five years of work, he moved to his current position at a consulting firm at the age of 27. ” If I had just kept working, I would have become a first-class credit card person, but that wasn’t what I wanted, and I wanted to be in an environment where I could grow more. I wanted to be in an environment where I could grow. I thought the consulting business could be an option for starting my own business in my 20s, which was the goal I had set after I started working.

What was the motivation for starting a business in the first place? Mr. Yoshigi again said, ” I want to enjoy life to the fullest.

I thought about starting a business because it sounded interesting. I felt that it would be wrong to judge “being a company employee is better” without having experienced being a business owner. I decided to start a company while I was still in my 20s as a way to experience life.

At that point, however, he was undecided about the nature of his business. The business was to be a start-up.

First, I thought about what I could do to help others. I started to share my experiences on my blog, YouTube, and X, etc., on themes such as how to make a life plan, changing jobs, and careers,and my followers gradually increased. I began to realize that there are quite a lot of people who don’t do self-analysis and self-understanding.

If I could be of any help to others, it would be to help them set a course for their lives. This is what I came to realize. I started my own business at the age of 29, doing what I could, such as career coaching and social network marketing.

He works on multiple projects at !

He started using ChatGPT as soon as it was launched in November 2010.

I like new things like the latest appliances and convenience goods, so when ChatGPT came out, I immediately jumped on it and said, ‘This is great. I think within a year after that, I was ready to use it in my business.

At the time, no one around me was actively using AI, so I decided to publish information on how to work with AI, with the idea that it would be helpful to businesspeople if I could tell them what ChatGPT could do in an easy-to-understand way.”

That was in December 2012. In December 2012, he achieved an annual income of over 20 million yen in just over a year. Without AI, it would have been impossible,” says Mr. Yoshigi.

Without AI, I wouldn’t be able to handle the amount of work I do now.The main job of a manager at a consulting firm is to design the entire project. Normally, each person is in charge of one project, but I am in charge of three projects. I am able to do this because I make full use of AI.

For example, it used to take me and my subordinates one day to create the framework of a document. With AI, I can finish assembling the outline in an hour by myself. With AI, I can finish the framework in an hour alone, and then I can assign it to my subordinates, so I can work on multiple projects at the same time.

The same goes for my own business. Before using AI, it took me more than two days to create a PowerPoint presentation of 10 or 20 slides. Now, I can create those materials in an hour the day before a study session.”

Mr. Yoshigi uses AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and NotebookLM according to his work and tasks.

When I use AI, I have to give specific instructions on roles, background, tasks, and constraints, and I have really improved my ability to give instructions to my subordinates and to verbalize them. It has expanded my capacity.

Aiming for Koshien!　Future after FIRE

AI has also contributed greatly to my life-work balance,” says Mr. Yoshigi.

When I gave up my career as a professional baseball player, I made a plan for my life: meet a nice guy at the age of 26, go out with him for a year, live together for a year, and get married at the age of 28. In fact, I met my wife when I was 26 and married her at 27. We have not deviated much from the plan. We have one male and one female child, two years apart. This is also in line with our plan.

I am able to spend quality time with my family. On weekday mornings, I get the children dressed, brush their teeth, and eat breakfast with them. On days when I work remotely, I have dinner with my family. On weekends, I eat three meals a day with my family.

On Saturday mornings, I have “family time” and play with my children. Once a month, I go out with my family. Once a month, my wife has a “free day,” on which I take care of the children.

I love my job, so I work the rest of the time. I believe that AI is the reason I am able to focus on my dual career while also being involved in childcare in this way.

Yoshigi’s plan is to move overseas in three years at the age of 35. He plans to move to Southeast Asia.

I haven’t decided what I will do after I emigrate,” he said. I am in a financial position to FIRE (retire early), so I hope to be able to do what I want to do.ButI really like consulting work. So I may continue my consulting business.

Right now, my work is like a hobby. I would like to have a real hobby. I want to try voice training and guitar, and I also want to resume golf. I plan to spend more time and energy on my hobbies.”

He also has plans for after he returns home.

I plan to live abroad for about 15 years and return to Japan when my children go to high school and college. After returning to Japan, I plan to start coaching high school baseball at the age of 50, aiming for the Koshien National High School Baseball Championship. I am serious.There is a possibility that I will return to Japan before I turn 50. Because my wife might want to go back. 15 years later in life…… indeed, I am a little unsure. “