[samurai007]

My degrees are in History and Social Science. But after JET I didn't go back to school to get either a teaching credential or Masters/PhD. (Partly because of the internal political battles being fought in which conservative teachers and professors were being discriminated against or fired for little or no reason, especially in subjects such as History and Social Science where if you didn't toe the liberal party line in your classes, you were history. After talking to numerous professors and teachers candidly about such things, I knew I'd probably never be able to get ahead as a History teacher.)

So I moved to the SF bay area and got an office job at a company that sold and repaired Toshiba phone systems for several years, then worked in the Perishable Exports dept at Nippon Express for a while. I eventually returned to my hometown and am now doing accounting and payroll for a company that removes orchards and sells the firewood (it's actually a rather large company, with over 65 employees and at least another dozen independents who work with us.) This isn't what I saw myself doing when I returned from JET, but life can take weird twists and turns, and you don't always get to do what you planned on.