Drew Hamilton and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>Michael Cash  <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>>That's a realistic option for only a very small portion of the people
>>who come here. Are you engaged in the same line of work you did
>>wherever it was you came from? 
>
>Well, I still am wherever it is that I came from.  But when I do go back
>to Japan, then yeah, it'll be the same line of work.
>
>I guess I just got tired of hearing "Oh, you worked in Japan, eh?  So 
>which school did you teach for?" as if it was absolutely inconceivable
>that I could have possibly done anything else.

Some people can be so pig-headed about this sort of thing, they'll even work it
into the script even when you've clearly established that you're NOT, I repeat,
***NOT*** (that's an English word that means "NOT") working for Nova or ECC or
Geos or Kensington or World or Happy Happy Smiley Gaigo Gakuin Kogyo or etc.

There have been at least two occasions -- after I've told someone I am a
computer system/network engineer -- where they would respond, "Oh. So, then, you
teach at night?"

Feh.

I understand that people such as myself, in jobs not related to language or
international blah blah, are a small minority. But it kind of grates on me that
some people seem to actively refuse to explore life in this country in any other
fashion.


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