Teaching English in Japan
After 9 months of deliberating I finally submitted my application to work as an English Teacher in Japan with a company called Interac. I sent it in a couple days ago, and this morning I got a call from the company asking me a few questions like, "Are you willing to drive?", "Are you willing to live in a rural environment?", "Are you coming with someone?", "Are you alright with the fact that we can not guarantee that you'll be living near each other?". I said "yes" to everything. After all, I may use this as a buffer between relationships if it doesn't work out with Musashi. And if not, then I will not take the position if we can't at least live together. The first step is the phone interview, followed by and in person interview and a seminar. My phone interview will be on September 21st at 2:30. Musashi has yet to submit his application. I'm also concerned that he will not do a sufficient amount of research about getting his medication for diabetes.
Now that he sees how seriously I am taking this opportunity he has asked me three-four times in the last two days if I will continue to apply to positions in Los Angeles. I said that I would (though I haven't applied to any recently). Now that my Interac application is done I can focus more on that as well as figuring myself out. Today, he surprised me by asking if I asked Cody Dorrel (my co-worker at Tomatina and a mutual friend of Musashi's) about San Francisco Ballet (I just found out that Cody's mother works there). I thought Musashi was over the idea of staying in the Bay Area for any reason. He said that he would be willing to change plans if it meant that I got a job with SF Ballet. I honestly would love to work there, but, I don't want a traditional desk job, crunching numbers and staring at a computer screen with Excel on it all day. So far, they only have positions I would not be happy doing, open (though I have my eye out by checking their website frequently and subscribing to their job post newsletter). I think it would be a terrible idea to apply to a job, get it, and do subpar work, when it is my audition to a job that I would truly want in another department.
So for now, I'm working through a bestselling book titled, "Do What You Are" by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger to figure out my "Type" (ISFJ). To help me make a well thought out and wise choice in my next step in the pursuit of my career.
Now that he sees how seriously I am taking this opportunity he has asked me three-four times in the last two days if I will continue to apply to positions in Los Angeles. I said that I would (though I haven't applied to any recently). Now that my Interac application is done I can focus more on that as well as figuring myself out. Today, he surprised me by asking if I asked Cody Dorrel (my co-worker at Tomatina and a mutual friend of Musashi's) about San Francisco Ballet (I just found out that Cody's mother works there). I thought Musashi was over the idea of staying in the Bay Area for any reason. He said that he would be willing to change plans if it meant that I got a job with SF Ballet. I honestly would love to work there, but, I don't want a traditional desk job, crunching numbers and staring at a computer screen with Excel on it all day. So far, they only have positions I would not be happy doing, open (though I have my eye out by checking their website frequently and subscribing to their job post newsletter). I think it would be a terrible idea to apply to a job, get it, and do subpar work, when it is my audition to a job that I would truly want in another department.
So for now, I'm working through a bestselling book titled, "Do What You Are" by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger to figure out my "Type" (ISFJ). To help me make a well thought out and wise choice in my next step in the pursuit of my career.