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Originally Posted by bELyVIS
There really isn't a career path for foreigners in Japan, just jobs because they tend to get rid of foreigners and replace them with Japanese. English teaching is a job because everyone I know got sick of it quickly.
If you have bills in the US, you will be short of money if you take a English teaching job because the pay is low.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but life in Japan isn't as easy as people think. It's crowded, expensive, and is much more difficult if you don't speak or read the language. Visit and if you do decide to go, good luck.
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I was thinking of eventually ending up teaching English in a university. The only bills I would have would be college related. I already know about the whole gaijin mentality, and how expensive and crowded it is. I don't mind all the people and small apartments. Also I don't consider learning the language to be hard (I have translated a little here and there for my own personal use).
I'm trying to plan out not just going and working in Japan but also a future there past the whole "off the boat" experience. Like maybe meeting an wife, raising an family and overall growing old. I would like to see my self holding down a respectable job (English teaching in a University for example). I just need help staying for the long term or maybe permanently if that's is to be my future.