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RE: Mobbs' Memoirs: The time I left my life behind for a foreign world, and how I met @hugmug

in #blog8 years ago

I have a lot of friends who had a very positive experience when they joined the Japanese English Teacher program (JET). If you are ready for another change you can give that a go :)

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I'm done with the whole ESL thing. It was fun but not rewarding enough for my curious head. After I got enough experience and training etc I moved on to Literature, History, Music, things I share passion with.

Also, I heard nothing but overworking people to death in JET, with far less savings than you'd get in Korea or China. Then again you get to live in Japan. Gonna visit later this year - who knows!

Overworking people to death depends a bit on where in Japan you get stationed. Unfortunately, you cannot pick where you want to go. So it depends on how lucky you are. (note that JET is a government program so you won't get ripped off :P)

The money is less but they arrange super cheap housing. In addition, air tickets, travel fees etc are all included :)

Have fun in Japan :o)

the key to working these jobs is to not give a fuck about the job itself. If you are polite and empathetic towards all the individuals, it seems to be a better method than actually caring. But yeah, if you are done with it, be done with it!

Yeah well, I do love teaching so I guess it wouldn't really matter if its ESL or Philosophy, I'd find a way to love it. So perhaps that's my issue. I should have stopped loving!

I've always kept myself busy with non-teaching jobs like composition, mixing, writing and so forth and I guess my interests are too diverse to keep teaching kids where verbs go in a sentence... I envy your mindset =P

nononono Love the work! Don't be attached to the job!

Know that there are others, and with this work, it's easy to know!