Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tired of Nihon Pt. 2 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:48:52 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.110.213.84 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199724532 31392 127.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2008 16:48:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.110.213.84; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Alexa Toolbar; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166599 On Jan 8, 12:22=A0am, rcaetano wrote: > On Jan 4, 12:35 pm, cn72...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Now that I finally have one week's holiday (after 6 months solid > > work), I can finally catch up on some internet usage. > > > Anyway... my own country, Australia, is like a foreign country to me > > (in terms of work), because I never worked full time there. > > > I have a question for the Australians here. Is it possible to have a > > normal job in Australia? Where you can realistically leave at 5pm > > (without being frowned upon)? Of course I am not too obsessive about > > leaving time... 5:30/6:00/6:30 on occasion would not be the end of the > > world. > > I've heard Australians are almost as workaholic as Americans. Tragically true - certainly amongst offshore Australians at least. > (The Japanese are not workaholic by the way.) also (tragically) true. I wish the staff here would work 9-5, but they're too busy ganbatteiru-ing. > > I hold on to the dream of returning to Australia, it is the only thing > > that gives me hope when I have to work excessive hours (sometimes > > until the last train home, the 12:04am). > > I hope you're getting paid for overtime. Otherwise, why bother? > Unless you get paid a good annual salary, but since you mention a mid- > sized Japanese company, that's unlikely. > Just get a good excuse as someone else mentioned. You're not getting > promoted anyway. Well put. Original poster? Don't rush the decision, but its probably a case of up, sideways, (change of company) or out. We only live once. Walk a path you think is rewarding. And don't worry. You can always change your mind later as well.