Comments | replicant_rasa: Jobs in Japan -- FINIS!

replicant_rasa

Jobs in Japan -- FINIS!

Feb 06, 2011 08:14

Just finished my last day of gainful employment in Japan, which is sort of driving home the you-are-leaving thing. It's weird because I've spent the past four years building up a skillset that I hope never to use again. In my not so humble opinion (and, it must be said, in my student evaluations), I'm a good teacher. I even enjoy myself about half ( Read more... )

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februaryfour February 6 2011, 07:28:26 UTC

Felt the EXACT same way when I quit. Amen.

cheeser1 February 8 2011, 05:36:39 UTC

...your ability to enjoy yourself is at the mercy of whether or not your students suck.

This rings quite true. I believe my role teaching calculus for non-technical majors (biological sciences, business, economics, pharmacy) speaks for itself and for the caliber of student to which I am subjected.

dr4b February 24 2011, 06:26:18 UTC

Oh, wow, you're leaving Japan? I totally didn't know that, but I guess after Ai left, I was kind of out of your loop anyway. Why'd you decide to go? You seemed to really love it there. (Not that I can talk as I've pretty much moved back to the US now too.)

replicant_rasa February 24 2011, 08:11:41 UTC

I do like Japan, but I'm not in love with teaching English -- and while it was certainly tolerable, I didn't want to suddenly look up and realized I'd spent ten years doing a job I didn't like just for the sake of staying there. Moving was a way to forcibly keep myself from getting mired in inertia.

So here I am, back in Texas, reacquainting myself with America.