The trends surrounding side jobs have changed dramatically over the past few years, and people with side jobs are becoming less and less rare. Recently, “multi-workers” who handle many tasks at the same time have been active. Among multi-workers, some are taking on the challenge of improving various skills, contributing to society, earning money, and developing other fields. In some cases, improving skills in one job can lead to a virtuous cycle, such as being able to apply them to another job. Crop damage caused by deer, wild boars, and other animals has become a serious issue nationwide. If you can solve this problem, you will feel a sense of fulfillment. It prevents damage to crops and the meat can be sold as wild game. There is also a system in which local governments can provide subsidies if you catch them. This time, we looked at the case of a woman who contributes to the community through her side job as a hunter while continuing her day job in IT.
Ms. Yamamoto, an IT (information technology) engineer, works in her living room in Tottori City. She and her husband have returned to their hometown and are doing work such as software programming at home. Ms. Yamamoto’s other side is as a hunter who belongs to the local hunting club. She is a skilled hunter who captures around 100 deer and wild boars a year. In the mornings, she sets traps and patrols, and in the afternoons she works from home. She and her husband moved to Tottori in 2018, where she had the internet environment necessary for her IT job, so she could easily work and live there. In addition to her side job, she seems to be getting more work lately, such as writing for magazines about hunting.
Boars are delicate, intelligent and powerful animals. Control methods using sound, light, and smell always become less effective as boars become accustomed to them. Boars can retain what they learn for quite a long time. Humans have also been developing tools that surpass the learning ability of wild boars. Equipped with GSP, it will be possible for the drone to automatically pass through predetermined points. Infrared cameras can use the temperature difference between the animal and the ground to locate the animal. The drone’s infrared camera makes it possible to identify the wild boar’s route and whereabouts. Using machine learning, drones may be able to tell humans the fixed paths that wild boars take. In the case of an IT engineer wearing the shoes of a hunter, it is possible to use IT tools in the field of hunting. From a hunter’s perspective, it may be fun to use IT tools to capture and coexist with wild animals.
