Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Teaching English in Japan (as a NON-native English speaker)...or other jobs? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:31:39 +0900 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4219FEDB.9050204@hotmail.com> References: <4219c504$1@news.broadpark.no> <37u3ckF599dpiU1@individual.net> <4219E12C.1000807@hotmail.com> <4219fa36@news.broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net tL1fde1z720m8FIsVAMrVwT92At214ZxTmm1O1OTnj7Sp5upV1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4219fa36@news.broadpark.no> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25558 Hallvard Tangeraas wrote: > Declan Murphy wrote: > >> Ryan Ginstrom wrote: >> >>> But those people generally become even more bitter than English >>> teachers. >> >> I don't believe it is possible to be more bitter than an English >> teacher. Doesn't "Charisma Man" make it down to Okinawa? > > What's all this bitterness about? http://karatethejapaneseway.com/photos/charisma_man_02.jpg Though it would appear that (according to Ryan at least), proofreaders of "translated" English get less sex and less booze than the dancing bears. > I'm sort of ignorant not having *lived* in Japan, but I assume it has > something to do with Japan in general treating foreigners badly if the > stuff I've read here and there is correct. Japan in general treats foreigners fine. There is nothing much to worry about. I went to considerable lengths in Hokkaido last week to get myself thrown out of onsens and mizushobai establishments to absolutely no avail. > Or is it all just whining I've caught up on? You really are good at English :-) So why on earth would you want to teach it? You have a degree, obviously have some work experience, so why not try to find a way to use that experience instead and get a real job? > Are foreigners generally treated differently and/or badly than their > Japanese co-workers? Foreigners are usually treated differently, but this is rarely a bad thing (for the foreigners). -- "UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.