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Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:28 am
by Kanto
niall24 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:16 am
Kanto wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:35 am
Adjunct professor
Is Adjunct Professor = Assistant or Associate Professor 助教授、准教授？ Or part-time lecturer? 非常勤講師 ? (that is what I am, since retiring from company. I wonder if I can promote myself to Adjunt Professor...
Adjunct -
a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part.
Definitely Part-time
1 Year contracts. Some contracts are per koma some are for year salary.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:55 pm
by kuma
Writer/teacher. Well, teacher/writer at the mo; will adjust the ratio back when the time is right.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:18 am
by fools_gold
Another teacher here... College lecturer.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:56 am
by Tokyo
I was that guy who spent his quiet moments at work (as a full time prof) daydreaming of retirement. But now I am fully retired and enjoying travel (domestic only recently but it’s really special with so few other tourists around) and my real priority of family.
We have sufficient savings and passive income that enabled a smooth transition from full time work without requiring any lifestyle changes, live in our dream home in a dream location with zero debt, and certainly do not miss commuting, protracted work meetings, or mortgages. I’m living the daydream! And all it took was 35 years of the both of us working and saving nonstop.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 2:07 am
by OkiBum
Full time employee at a Japanese Hotel Group - Manage the International Sales.
On the side help my wife with her handmade cosmetics and candles business.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:17 am
by FIRE-Rookie
Day time:
Field Engineer at Gaishikei
Night:
Coding for web development and 3D maps (Freelancer)
Free time:
Experimenting with trading bots for Crypto to see which one loses money the fastest! (Beats going to Pachinko)
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:28 am
by taneandy
Translator at a patent firm.
However, it's pretty much exclusively remote work so feels like a mix of being a freelancer and a regular employee.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:55 pm
by TJKansai
Tokyo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:56 am
I was that guy who spent his quiet moments at work (as a full time prof) daydreaming of retirement. But now I am fully retired and enjoying travel (domestic only recently but it’s really special with so few other tourists around) and my real priority of family.
We have sufficient savings and passive income that enabled a smooth transition from full time work without requiring any lifestyle changes, live in our dream home in a dream location with zero debt, and certainly do not miss commuting, protracted work meetings, or mortgages. I’m living the daydream! And all it took was 35 years of the both of us working and saving nonstop.
Did you hit the maximum retirement age, or did you get out a bit early?
I am on the fence right now.
Fiscally, I could retire now and the severance would be okay, but if I wait until 60 it would be bumped up a fair bit. The latest we can work is 70, but I see 60-70 as a travel-the-world period.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:00 am
by TJKansai
Kanto wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:28 am
1 Year contracts. Some contracts are per koma some are for year salary.
I know a guy with 30 koma (works 6 days a week, for 30 weeks a year). Pulls in around ¥9,000,000 a year, not too shabby.
Re: Occupations: What do you do?
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:32 am
by RetireJapan
TJKansai wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:00 am
Kanto wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:28 am
1 Year contracts. Some contracts are per koma some are for year salary.
I know a guy with 30 koma (works 6 days a week, for 30 weeks a year). Pulls in around ¥9,000,000 a year, not too shabby.
That's just... unhealthy
I've done 14 as a part timer (alongside other work) just for a year, and it was tough.
