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Originally Posted by hitotsz
Once, some random Japanese person contacted me through Skype. He said he dropped out of Uni after 2 years because he didn't see the point (I think he said something to the effect of 'you can still get good job without Uni" but that was my guess because he had an accent)
He said he works for a company where he has to correspond with foreign customers via email in English. He had been in Canada in HS for exchange student program for a year or two.
I haven't heard from him since, so I wasn't able to ask him this question: In Japan, even if you don't have a Uni degree, can you get a respectable job at a company like he seems to have? (I guess not for gaijins)
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My guess is that it's the same as any other country. In other words
yes you can get a very good job, but
no it's not going to be very likely and certainly you'd be very lucky if you did.
I know one or two people with fantastic jobs, who travel the world and get great pay, didn't go to university but did start at the bottom and worked their way up, teaching themselves all they needed to know and working hard in the process . . . however the majority of people I know who
didn't go to university aren't so lucky. They work dead-end jobs, or forever seem to be on the lowest rung of the ladder. I don't see how Japan would be any different in this respect. You can get a respectable job, but it'll be a lot harder and you'll need a lot of luck - same as anywhere.