Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "another fool" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: How does this contract sound Date: 16 Apr 2005 23:55:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <1113720913.368593.85500@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1113662752.707117.55410@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.231.174.29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1113720927 17962 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2005 06:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:55:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=218.231.174.29; posting-account=nDnx9QwAAAB2O7yU8ESr5_o7Fqc0evD8 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:26701 > That seems to be about the situation. Do you have any idea about what > percentage of your income would go to all the things like income > tax/insurance/city tax, etc for a 300,000/month salary? I've heard a > number of different things, but it seems to be around 25-30%. Does this > sound about right? > > Based on the way Japanese engineers seem to work, I don't know how I > would find the additional time to work a part time job. That sounds low for an english teacher if it isn't including some sort of housing. For an engineer that's just ludicrous. We had a bunch of freshmen engineers around last week and the starting salary for them was (IIRC) 50% higher then 300,000 a month. > My current visa has the status as "Professor", so currently I can only > work at academic institutions or related places. So I have to get the > status changed before I can work at a company (which the company will > help me do). My current contract has less than 3 months left on it, but > my visa won't expire for another year. I'm not sure how the self > sponsorship thing works. I may or may not try to look into it, but it's > good to be aware of it. You might check into this. My visa has "intacompany transferee" on it. My understanding is that that means jack and squat - I can quit my job and work for anyone I want to since it is a valid work visa. As long as you have a valid work visa chances are the company isn't going to care - I suggest not bringing it up in the future and if it is a problem they can help you get it changed.