What's your job?

[WingsToDiscovery]

We all know GoNative is a former ski resorter , but what do the rest of you do (if you work in Japan)? If you formerly worked in Japan, what did you do? And if you do something that involves Japan/Japanese but aren't in Japan, feel free to chime in.

[samokan]

traveling encoder

software programmer

[acjama]

I recently started a thread that would, if I would say what I do, put me in a very awkward position, so... tech industry in metropolitan Tokyo.

[evanny]

i work in Radisson Blue hotels - i am a clerk of a souvenir shop i get to practice my japanese with some 5 to 10 japanese tourists a week since they usually travel in small groups. i get to see Chinese and tourists from Taiwan far more often - still, i use a paper to draw japanese kanji that i know are chinese to start a conversation with them
Had some nice encounters - specially with one really funny lady in her 90's and her granddaughter. and then this one family actually knew my japanese sensei in university and had come to visit her.

so. here are my 2 cents on how it is to work with Japanese tourists they usually are cool, sometimes a seem little distant or shy but others are fun and lively.

[Nyororin]

Freelance translator-interpreter, currently on contract for technical translation-interpretation at an international company.

[GoNative]

Back in Australia now and we are currently finalising negotiations to buy a wholesale plant nursery that specialises in native and indigenous plants. As my name on these forums suggests I love native plants and before heading to Japan my wife and I ran a successful landscape design business called Go Native Landscapes. My wife has an honors degree in botany and we both have qualifications in horticulture and along with the design business it's going to be a lot of work but at least it will be work that we both really enjoy.

[spicytuna]

I spent a summer working in Yokohama back in the 90's busting my ass doing 三Ｋ労働 work. I lived in a 6 Jyo cockroach infested apartment with 3 Iranian coworkers and I ironically came back to Canada learning more Persian than Japanese.

I've spent the last 16 years with Big Blue and although I've had the opportunity to transfer to Japan, I never considered it since IBM Japan is one of the most Japanese American companies out there.

I had a friend within the company who took the bait and he didn't last 6 months.

[AlexisSalas]

I suppose i would work as a teacher or a translator. In California i work as a tutor but some people at school say im sorta a teacher LoL

[godwine]

Originally Posted by spicytuna

I spent a summer working in Yokohama back in the 90's busting my ass doing 三Ｋ労働 work. I lived in a 6 Jyo cockroach infested apartment with 3 Iranian coworkers and I ironically came back to Canada learning more Persian than Japanese.

I've spent the last 16 years with Big Blue and although I've had the opportunity to transfer to Japan, I never considered it since IBM Japan is one of the most Japanese American companies out there.

I had a friend within the company who took the bait and he didn't last 6 months.

I worked for IBM Canada in the past, a lot of opportunities popped up for Japan which I never got so....

[BobbyCooper]

Originally Posted by godwine

I worked for IBM Canada in the past, a lot of opportunities popped up for Japan which I never got so....

what opportunities??