Occupations: What do you do?
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Director for a small Gaishikei in Biotechnology / Semiconductor.
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Your ‘rage masked as humour’ sagas as a financial services consumer here in Japan just gained more poignancy.Moneymatters wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:25 am During working hours.. Director for a gaishikei. (Fintech.).
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Master of the remote controls, husband to a nagging wife, father to a hopeless teenager and I shall have my retirement in this life or the next.
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Sadly more Al Bundy than Maximus Meridius. Although I do share the same initials...Beaglehound wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 12:52 pmYour ‘rage masked as humour’ sagas as a financial services consumer here in Japan just gained more poignancy.Moneymatters wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:25 am During working hours.. Director for a gaishikei. (Fintech.).
Outside that:
Master of the remote controls, husband to a nagging wife, father to a hopeless teenager and I shall have my retirement in this life or the next.
"What we invest in life, compounds for eternity". Oh. that's good.
Maybe I could become a financial services consumer rights campaigner!
Although I sense I'm stuck with my role as Cautionary Tale....
— Funemployment commencing in Sept 2025 —
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Tech Manager IT company
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Well, as the saying goes "Jack of all trades, master of none"
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Work for an eikaiwa company as a contractor. Served me well to get my Permanent Residency and I love the flexibility. Earned pretty decent money before the pandemic. Now just ok. But am a bit sick of teaching English so am looking at expanding other income options.
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I understand the sick of teaching English thing. I find I need to set myself/the student(s) a goal to keep both of us motivated. So an exam or a career aim (for example, I am now teaching a few prospective tour guides). It’s difficult in an eikaiwa setting where students may not have high self motivation and you might have classes with students dropping in and out. But if it’s eikaiwa you are sick of and not teaching per se, it’s worth considering English for Specific Purposes.Gareth wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:52 pm Work for an eikaiwa company as a contractor. Served me well to get my Permanent Residency and I love the flexibility. Earned pretty decent money before the pandemic. Now just ok. But am a bit sick of teaching English so am looking at expanding other income options.
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Professing various things 'full-time' at a downtown national university. I spend at least an equal amount of time looking after my boy (for whom I gave up a tenured job in Australia that paid a better salary), who'll turn 20 later this year but has the capabilities of an infant. Often I play guitar to him -- my only fan in Japan!
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I'm a software engineer and now run my own one man company doing consulting, contracting, and hopefully selling software license and expending a little in the near future.