[WingsToDiscovery]

I'm not an English teacher in Japan, but my spoken English is much more academically advanced than even most native American English speakers, so even to them I sometimes alienate myself for "speaking too properly" as they say. This makes it even more of a pain when I'm helping my Japanese friends study (I normally just go over questions they have and practice conversation for free during my lunch break). I find that it's harder to work with them because in my mind I'm constantly thinking "This is what I would say, but how can I make this easier/more appropriate?" because I'm trying to help them with conversational English, but as I said, even the way I talk can be different from other native speakers.

As far as the actual job goes, I wouldn't want to teach in Japan anyway unless I had to. Most of the people there are crooks with non-education based degrees who don't care about the students and just wanted a ticket into Japan. I don't want to work with those kinds of people.