Thread 214742977

What's it *really* like to live and work in Japan? From English teaching, engineering, etc, just daily life of a non-Japanese person living and working in the country. I want to know what exactly I'm missing out on as a result of being repeatedly rejected from every Japan-related job I've applied to post-university (despite having the education and prerequisite cultural experience) and possibly ween myself out of simping for the country. Already can't take the JLPT again this year.

>>214742977 (OP)
>Already can't take the JLPT again this year
Why would you take it twice?
Which level did you take?

>>214743045
In my country, it's only offered once, and this is the second year in which it is not offered at the place nearest to me. I took and passed N4 10 years ago, but then failed N3 four times, and N2 three times. I wanted to take N3 again this year.

>>214743135
That might be it. Most professionals jobs actually want you to have N2 or at least N3 even if it is not part of the requirements.

If you don't mind working for Lawson or 7eleven you can always try the language student cheat by getting into a japanese school in japan that allows you to work part time too.

>>214743425
I tried that while in university, and couldn't make it in time (had 3 weeks to raise $7K). But I figured I could start out teaching English AND THEN move on to something else...which didn't work either, because I've been rejected from every English-teaching job/eikaiwa, even before the Pandemic.
>even NOVA said "no"

>>214743467
>But I figured I could start out teaching English AND THEN move on to something else...which didn't work
Well, sounds like you better get those $7k before even applying (maybe $10K) and try the school way again. There are many other Japanese schools if you don't want to try the same you failed.

Even if you start with just a cashier job it will be good for your curriculum once you get your language certificate from the Japanese school because the employers will see "someone who knows about Japanese society and working environment" and not just "another gaijin who wants to move here without knowing how things work".
Either that happens or you ween out of simping for the country after spending a whole year there but at least you managed to "really live and work in Japan" and make your own conclusions

>>214743866
Why tf would a first-worlder move to Japan just to work as a cashier at a konbini? I can understand that a third-worlder from a country like Indonesia or Bangladesh would be willing to put up with that because it would still be better paid than a regular white-collar job back in their home countries, but a first-worlder would literally have no reason for doing something like that, unless they were a literal insane weeaboo with a shitty-ass degre in something like Art History or Theology.

If I were to move to Japan, it'd be to work there as an electrical engineer, not as a convenience store attendant.

>>214743467
Why were you rejected? Criminal/mental records? Or are you not white?

I did it for 3 years. It sucks. There’s a ton of novelty at first, which is exciting. Then it becomes boring, then lonely, then depressing, then frustrating, then suffocating, and then depressing again, and it just gets worse and worse as you spiral into this strange combination of fish out of water feeling, the same routines and scenes that you need to cling to out of necessity, and sadness.

>>214744185
Not white, no. But almost all of my non-white friends got the opportunity.

>>214743135
>I took and passed N4 10 years ago, but then failed N3 four times, and N2 three times. I wanted to take N3 again this year.
I'm genuinely impressed with your tenacity.

>>214744246
I would have thought there would be a tonne of other foreigners to connect with to maintain a social life and not get lonely

>>214744539
I'm making passing N1 (and really all of the levels) a life-goal. I want to circle back to take and pass N5 after having passed N1.

>>214744581
Just go to language school. Save up $10-20K in the US for a year or two, then apply. If you really REALLY love Japan, or disillusioned, go to language school in smallish city in prefecture like Sendai, Fukuoka, Ehime, etc. I don't know when this is >>214743467 but things have changed a lot lately.

>>214742977 (OP)
where are you actually from?
but else wise I doubt you're missing out much aside of less liberals ideas and more conservative ideas, specially anti immigration is all time high right now.
>>214743135
>failed N2 3 times
>when most jobs requires N1 or N2 at least
gg, not to mention someone who appled for a bbq restaurant as a server and got rejected because he didn't have N2

>>214742977 (OP)
It's terrible. You work 12 hours per day, and at least 6 days per week, 50 weeks per year. And it's not like all that time is well spent, a huge part of it will be unnecessary make work

>>214743976
If you have a high value skillset you can make more in Mexico than Japan. There's no career minded person who goes to Japan, period. The average job in Japan is welfare fake work, the kind of work that's calling meetings or 'sales' while your company is completely held together by loans. For blue collar and maintenance work Japanese just import southeast asians to do the jobs they won't touch, and weebs sure as hell aren't moving to Japan to do plumbing or electrical work when they can make over 60k easily in the US.