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[southenisland]

There's this job opportunity to teach in Japan with IES that I was excited about yesterday and a few months ago I would have jumped at it no questions asked, but after sleeping over it

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[kikuko_kamimura]

Honestly, the luck of the draw thing is 1000% accurate

[southenisland]

thank you for replying. Yeah, I've kind of buried the idea where it came from now. It just sounds to good to be true and I'm not sure what I would get out of it that would help me in my current stage in life

[kikuko_kamimura]

That seems like a good way to go. Unfortunately with Japan, the standard for foreigners seems to be that you get hired to teach by a shitty company desperate for workers and do your contract for at least a year to get visas and stuff worked out, then once you have that done you can start applying to jobs that treat you better (since sponsoring/renewing visas for people who already have them is so much easier, and companies don't want to take the risk on investing a lot in someone just to have them leave in six months). If you don't have either a really good connection or a company willing to hire (or a branch of a Japanese company where you are that would hire you there, then send you to work at their Japan office), I would say you need to ready yourself for at least a year of horrible bullshit that if you don't have something to deflect that which you need to be in Japan for (concerts with enough regularity to matter, conventions, shows, whatever) then it's probably not going to be worth it. I think even I wouldn't have made it if I

[kueken23]

Hard to give you an advice - in my case, I think I am now at that point where I want to travel and see other places, but I mean TRAVEL and not WORK. Working in a different country is great, but it actually does not mean you get to see as much of the country as you might wish (you know this, you've been abroad even more than me!). Does all of this make sense?

Also, what's your current job? Totally out of the loop with you, I think I need an update :) And good luck with the other job interview!