Journal
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So job hunting has pretty much failed. I tried my best to find a job here in Kansai. It started with non-tech positions, then I tried Project Manager and Senior backend engineer positions, then I tried even middle-level engineer positions, before finally trying full remote positions. 50 companies I applied to. Most rejected me without…
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Job hunting has not been going well. Suffice it to say that it has gone nowhere. But I do not falter. I reflect, I improve, and I persist.
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I did a Japanese-style SPI tests for a position as a localizer at a manga company. It was quite scary.
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My apartment is too expensive. Compared to my colleagues and friends, I am paying roughly ¥20,000 (roughly equivalent to 3 days work at my English teaching job) more a month. It’s a nice enough, pretty typical of most 1K apartments in this city, perhas on the slightly newer side and a few more metres squared…
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「日本語 上手ね」 多くの日本人 My desk mate from Japanese language school, a curious Korean man some 15 years older than I, will be returning to his home town soon. So we met up yesterday night at an izakaya to toast our year together and bid each other farewell. I spent one year at the school and…