The wife and daughter have gone back to Japan for three weeks for Shichi-Go-San
You can read more about it at the above link but in essence when a girl is three or seven or a boy is five they go to a temple and pray for good luck.
I’m stuck at home in England looking for jobs in a week off on holiday and working for the remaining two weeks.
One of my best ideas was definitely not move back to England as the recession started and with only ONE YEAR remaining before I could get a permanent visa in Japan. Sample rejection email:
Thanks for your application for the above role. However our client has received a great many applications from people with more IT experience. Unfortunately we will not be taking your application further.
We do currently have a French speaking telesales role, would you be interested in this?
No.
Still teaching English had run its course for me. Although it gave me great opportunities and a new window on the world, it didn’t help my career to much of an extent. Although selling home insurance in a call centre isn’t much better…
I don’t want to turn this into another negative post so I’ll stop there. I’m hoping that by getting stuff out it will help me write about other more enlightening things. It’s hard to write a blog about Japan when you live in England. I’m doing a degree in my spare time with the Open University in Java programming, getting into Linux via the Eee PC. Other blogs are helping me get a lot out of these. For example:
