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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
OK.
The “free” in the Japanese word is from “freelance”, and freeter can’t be volunteers.
As a Japanese word, “フリー(free)” doesn’t have meanings of “not costing any money”. We use the word to mean like “liberty”. So I have written some strange things. I’m sorry.
I have rewritten my short composition, again.
What “Freeter” Is
If you write the Japanese word フリーター in English, it would be “freeter” (both singular and plural), and that means a person or people who work(s) part-time.
Once one of my English teachers asked me what “freeter” was.
I wasn’t able to explain that then because it’s really complicated.
Let me try it here.
Freeter is a shortened version of “freearbeiter”.
“Free” is from the English word “freelancing”, and “arbeit” is from the German word “arbeiten”(work).
Then, the last part “er” is the English way to make nouns from verbs. For example, play and player.
Arbeiten is pronounced arubaito in Japan, which means part time job(s). The origin is that medical students used to say they “arbeiten” when they cut corpses to study human bodies. They meant it was hard work. My father (who is a surgeon) used to say that cutting corpse heads in two is tiring activity. Japanese medical students studied German because early Japanese medical information was from Germany. This word has spread and been changed to mean 'part time work'.
Anyway, “arbeiter” means “part time worker” now.
In this word “freeter”, “free” means “without permanent position” or “freelancing”, and many young people can’t get permanent positions recently. Most of them become freeter. You might think “freelancing” implies independence, but these people only have instability. They can earn little.
This is a big problem in Japan. I guess your country might be so, too.
Thank you.
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I made one change, so I just want you to look at this vocabulary;
An unemployed person- someone without any kind of job
A full-timer- someone who works for one company every day of the week
A freelancer - someone who works（as a writer, designer, performer, or the like,）selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
So is a freelancer dependent on one employer? Or do they go out and find their own work amongst many employers?
I think this is fine now Yuri. I wouldn't spend much more time on it.