Hi Conor,
By any chance are you here on the JET Program? That's what I'm doing,
stuck in a not-so-charming country town, feeling like I'm wasting time
and slowly losing my techincal skills...
Good stuff can be found at workinjapan.com and jobsinjapan.com.
There's a lot of bilingual postings, but maybe that's just because it's
harder to recruit those guys. My idea posting I will never find, but
it would say:
Well-rounded technical guy who expects to become good at Japanese in a
year wanted.
Or something like that. :)
In any case, if we're in the same boat, let's keep in touch.
Cheers,
Joe in Tochigi
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 01:24 AM, Conor wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is on or off topic, please don't flame me if I am
> off,
> just ignore this mail.
>
> I'm currently living in Japan, working as an English teacher. This is
> a job
> I do not want to continue doing. I recently graduated from a 4 year IT
> degree. What I really want to do is work in the IT industry,
> specifically
> the keitai market, in Japan. What I want to know is, what
> qualifications do
> employers over here usually require, and what level of Japanese is
> expected.
>
> I've been here close to 6 months, and my current level of Japanese is
> nothing to write home about, actually, it's next to zero, I can
> understand
> and sometimes communicate some things, but I suppose from a realistic
> point
> of view, it's practically non-existent.
>
> Actually, I suppose this is pretty much off topic, but I figure since
> this
> is a keitai discussion list, and some of the people on here seem to be
> keitai professionals, someone might be able to shed some light.
>
> Any help/ideas are appreciated,
>
> Conor
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 11 10:51:29 2003