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adamatari

Thank god school started

Aug 27, 2007 22:05

This summer sucked. I really didn't get anything done, though it was nice to see my friends in Florida all in all it was no good for me. Finally now school is going again and things are starting to pick up. I've got 5 classes, all somehow Japan related - an intro to Japanese linguistics, a modern literature course (english), a classical Japanese ( Read more... )

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ad_exia August 28 2007, 17:15:53 UTC

Heeey, you're alive! :D

At least if your degree is "what you make of it", you might be able get it to take you quite far, if you sell yourself right? But JET doesn't sound like a bad idea either. Or, at least from what I heard from our family friend when we were in Japan, there are a lot of companies there that need independent decision-makers (i.e., non-Japanese) to keep them competitive!

adamatari August 29 2007, 07:58:41 UTC

Yup, heart's still beating, still breathing. I was just in hiding (or something).

I guess the issue with a degree like this is the 'selling yourself' part. It's not something I make a habit of doing or anything. I know there are jobs, and probably at least a few jobs I would actually enjoy, but I don't know exactly where to look or exactly how to go about getting them either. There's the matter of connections as well, and whether I have the right ones or enough of them. Eh, it'll work out somehow, it's just less sure than if you have a very specific degree (like and accountant) or if you have a more general degree that is in demand (like in math or some sciences).

ad_exia August 30 2007, 06:05:22 UTC

Heh. Well, hiding beats dead, any day.

Yeah, that is true. I don't blame you, it's hard to sell yourself. :x But things will work out, and it seems like you end up making connections no matter what you do~

Wacky Ideas oraxia August 29 2007, 14:50:24 UTC

In terms of jobs, maybe with all that Japanese under your belt, you'd be able to get into translation work for anime or manga :D That would be pretty cool ^_^ Or, you could be a funny gaijin talk show host for a Japanese program :o

I could do that... adamatari August 30 2007, 01:55:06 UTC

Well, I could translate manga and anime - I can do that much now, though slowly and with a dictionary (my vocabulary is still not so great). The only problem with those jobs is that most of them don't pay so well. Depending on what comes up, I may end up doing that anyways...

As for being a talk show host, that's every Japanophile's dream. If I ever get that lucky it'll be a miracle. Hey, it could happen. Maybe.