What do you do in Japan?
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Are there many business related opportunities in Japan as far as you guys abroad know? I have been toying with the idea of business school after my BA, but am not really positive what my opportunities would look like (let alone have an interest in Japan in six or seven years!). Of course mastery of the language would be mandatory.
BraklyBum111
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loaded question! AHhaa. uhmm.. i dunno, just a bunch of crap that me and my friends feel like doing? normally visiting old friends and going all over the place. the most recent thing i did last time was see an hamasaki ayu concert, AHha. the countdown live 2004-2005 .. but the performance that was the day before new year`s eve 2004.12.30., still a great concert and really close to the stage! underneath one of the LCD screens! i like riding bikes around the place (when in the country) and doing everyday normal things, taking in the environment and not over stressing myself. i remember frequent trips to takeshita douri... hehhhHh and then lots of going to ginza area and random arse karaoke w/ people, so everything, heh. -bu
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I wonder if some of the people who chose "Entertainment" didn't mean that they went to Japan for enjoyment rather than work (as none of them seem to live in Japan from their profile). Therefore I took the libertu to add "bars, dance, shows..." to make it clearer.
I think an "I.T." category would have been nice, as it's one of the most popular job for Westerners in Japan (apart from teaching).
I think an "I.T." category would have been nice, as it's one of the most popular job for Westerners in Japan (apart from teaching).
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Wataru said:
It really depends where you teach. In big schools like NOVA, people get paid 250,000 yen per month, but work hard, so they get only about 1000yen/h. Private lessons are usually between 2500 and 4500 per hour. Some company pay as much as 10,000 yen per hour, but it's hard finding such opportunities.
mikecash said:
woah mikecash, maybe he wants to find out his info before he heads into that direction, eh? who asked for the sarcasm? oh! you at table 5, give him a sneeze muffin.
The money being paid out for foreign teachers could be hefty, there is supposed to be a big demand for Japanese to learn English, its best for you to set yourself up with a English teaching organisation and work from that.
You could always work on the side, (you didn't hear this from me)
where somone pays a small fee just for you to teach them.
King of Tokyo
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Ah, but it's integral to his charm. Fear not, you'll grow accustomed to it.geno said:
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geno said:
There was quite a bit of food for thought in my reply. Too bad you could only see sarcasm.
It isn't a direction that one need spend years preparing for. If you knew anything about the industry, you'd know that. Of course, much of the rest of your post plainly shows that you don't know, so I guess I'll have to cut you some slack on this.
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Wataru said:
Forgive me. The "I want to Teach english" in your post led me to think otherwise.
I believe The Man requires employers sponsoring people for full-time work visas (most English "teachers") to pay at least 250,000 yen per month. The requirement came into effect a few years ago, I believe, in order to ensure that at least a minimum decent living wage was being paid. Many of the smaller mom-n-pop operations were famous for being unethical chiselling cheapskates who paid little and acted like they were doing their foreign employees a favor by even making it possible for them to be in Japan at all. By no means all of them, though.
So at least in part to combat this sort of ill-treatment by small-time operators the minimum salary requirement got started. This had the effect of making the required minimum the defacto salary for EVERYBODY....even places which the rule had not been meant to target. All the schools got to engage in a little impromptu price-fixing on salaries, in other words. I'm not in the English teaching piracy racket so forgive me if my info isn't exactly correct.
There are practically NO professional requirements for "teaching" English at the majority of "schools" so you needn't worry about preparing yourself for anything other than meeting the visa requirements, generally a bachelors degree in anything at all and a discernible pulse.
If you want to put any effort into preparing to work/live here, put the time and effort into 1) learning Japanese and 2) learning a marketable white-collar job skill.
mikecash said:
woah, touchy touchy,
haha, does it bother you that someone of the younger generation is maybe not well accustomed to as much knowledge as you have obtained, im only young i've much too learn, theres no point in being all overbearing and sarcastic to us younger generation.
For we are the children of the revolution.
