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 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:06 pm
Okay, here's how it is:
When I'm older, (as you've probably already somehow guessed) I want to move to Japan to teach English. I've already researched in to this, and it requires at LEAST a Bachelor's Degree in English. The thing is, I don't know if this will help me in the long run. I don't know if I should forget English and take Japanese when I hit university! I mean, I am not completely sure of the job opportunities that'll become available for me if I was both a native English speaker and had a degree in Japanese? Ohhh... I don't know what to do... Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead in to the future? I'm 16 and studying my A-levels in the UK. <__>
Also, I live in a small area and japanese courses are really not an option right now, I've picked up self-teaching and I know ひらがな, カタカナ and I'm learning about grammar. I hope that gives you a sense of where I'm at. What would you do?
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:01 pm
There are two factors you should consider when pursuing a career: if it makes you happy and if it keeps a roof over your head. You can work an average job and still find ways to feed your passion for what you want to do, and if you decide to make your passion your profession, you need to consider the 90-9-1 equation that it will come with. 90% of the time you'll be doing stuff loosely-if at all-related to what you do to support your career and yourself, and 9% of the time what you do on the job will be average, if not worse. That 1% percent, however, is where everything clicks and everything you thought the job could be will come to light and flow through you.
Look into what your skills can factor into and decide what will give you a well rounded way of life. You could teach, translate, tutor, edit, write, any number of things, but it's up to you to decide where your life goes
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:08 am
That is good advice, I'm just thinking of how hard it must be to move to Japan and work there legally...
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:01 am
For Tomorrow That is good advice, I'm just thinking of how hard it must be to move to Japan and work there legally... The key thing to consider is the fact that a minority will be able to speak/understand the language you've been speaking all your life. If you can deal with that and the endless red tape you'll come across, the rest is cake. Remember, though, that whatever kinds of people you think your country full of will also be be kinds of people you'll find on Japan.
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