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I have an interest in Japanese culture and I train in the japanese martial art kendo.
olryst wrote:tell me what you think.
but good luck locating any of them here.will be volunteering my time to help out normal people
wagyl wrote:I'll start funding your campaign the minute you retroactively fund my self-funded efforts to move to Japan and make a life here.olryst wrote:tell me what you think.
Are you really sure you want to ask that?
Based on your location and being incredibly ethnocentric about your name, I am guessing that you have citizenship in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. Based on the glowing complexion in your photo (and the incredibly millennial nature of your request) I will guess that you are within the age for applying for a Working Holiday visa in both those countries. Once you start being realistic about the budget you are panhandling for, people might look on you a little more favorably. But I don't think that attitude will change by that much.
wagyl wrote:Unless he has a specific charity in mind, I do not think he will be successful with a visa application. His funding plea does not state any charity, only that hebut good luck locating any of them here.will be volunteering my time to help out normal people
Once I finish my degree I intend to work in Japan as an English teacher.
kurogane wrote:Yeah, I thought of that later. Get a working holiday visa and you won't have to beg electornically. Or is that a cultural tendency? At any rate, the WHV is more dignified.
One thing I have wondered about lately is how many people that want to go to Japan and could get a WHV seem unable to find out about it. Is it that big a secret, or is it a Generation LMGTFY thing?
No offence to the OP.
The Embassy of Japan in UK wrote:the scope of permissible activities does not include administration, food preparation, laundry and other manual work
wagyl wrote:Oh I'm sure he is aware of the Working Holiday Visa. Which makes it more of a mystery why he continues on this Quixotic quest.
wuchan wrote:wagyl wrote:Oh I'm sure he is aware of the Working Holiday Visa. Which makes it more of a mystery why he continues on this Quixotic quest.
I didn't see that. This dude is probably a virgin weaboo that has zero intension of even going to uni
I'm currently working through a Honours Degree in English and I intend to do a TESOL Course during my final year.
yanpa wrote:Anyway this ClownKick StartSourcing lark seems quite the thing, certainly a step up from an "Eye Need" ad in the back of Private Eye. I wonder if I can pre-finance Yanpa Jr's upbringing?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I need to start one of these to help achieve my dream of not working for a living. Is $10 million dollars too much to ask for?
olryst wrote:Hi, I've got a campaign going on fundmytravel.com
https://www.fundmytravel.com/Stephen-O-Leary-1423599064/campaigns/Volunteering-and-studying-in-japan-1423600198/view
Help me out and tell me what you think.
Thank you.
Stephen.
wagyl wrote:Actually we shouldn't be so harsh: we have been punked. Fundmytravel is obviously a comedy/satire site.
My friend Celena recently went to Japan and at her *5’3” height she towered over everyone.
kurogane wrote:I got a healthy chuckle when I saw that babblemonster girl got $50 of her thousands hoped for.
Hope springs eternal.
GargoyleTS wrote:These sites... Kickstarter made them famous but then..the leeches appeared.
No, not those silly kids with dreams and no idea how harsh the world really is. I mean the sites like that one, there to make money off the foolish and trusting. You're quite right to point out the horrible amount of money they are keeping for themselves to "host" these little beggars. Notice very few of them are willing to post completion rates? Success rates? Follow up from successfully completed campaigns?
Yeah, cause they are not there to help. Cause putting together a proper campaign to ask for investors, public or private, takes *gasp!* actual work!
This kid is a typical example, and so is the other one posted a few posts above this one. One says almost nothing about what he plans to do while in Japan, how he has budgeted his money (seriously, where was Lodging in his list? He gonna live on the street while taking those classes?), where he plans to visit for fun or for business (remember, he plans to spend time teaching English there someday so why wouldn't he visit a few schools?).
The other was even worse with her huge wall-o-text verbal vomit. It was seriously hard to get through and while it had information that was relevant to the trip itself, there was much that was completely irrelevant. Just...ugh.
And the sites don't give half a cat turd about it cause they get their 5% plus other costs no matter what. The ones that require full-funding to pay out are better about this cause if the campaign fails, they don't get money either. But the "open ended campaign" sites that let you constantly extend and move the goal posts on your campaign and let you collect even if you do not meet your goal take their money when its pledged and don't care one whit about the users.
My advise to ya kid: delete that campaign. Make your own website about your interest in Teaching, in Japan and its history, culture etc, and YOURSELF (because lets face it, that's what you are selling). And then once that is done, try this again. Add to your website, new and interesting things you find, your thoughts and dreams, the things you are doing to accomplish them. Show people not only that you want this, but that you are working to get to it even if no one else helps you. THEN ask for that help. You'll have a much better idea of what you want, you'll have read a lot more about it, talked to people about it, refined your dreams and desires down to a concrete plan of action for your future that you can point to, update, and PROVE you are getting closer every day. You'll become a source of inspiration for others who have not achieved their dreams and then, by helping YOU, they'll feel closer to their own dreams and be more inclined to help.
Its that hard and its that easy.
kurogane wrote:I got a healthy chuckle when I saw that babblemonster girl got $50 of her thousands hoped for.
Hope springs eternal.
wangta wrote:kurogane wrote:I got a healthy chuckle when I saw that babblemonster girl got $50 of her thousands hoped for.
Hope springs eternal.
Especially as she listed Tottori as one of the places she wanted to visit. During my last stint in Japan I accidentally got on the Tottori train at Okayama and decided to stay on as I had the day free. I was looking forward to some charming place and found bumfuck, ageing-problem Japan instead with arcades full of shuttered buildings, not to mention the horrendous weather blowing around while Okayama had been calm and mild that day.
The staff at Tottori Station were really nice, however. I am sure the people are fine but it slightly scared me with its decay especially as at one stage I thought of applying to a school there before I knew what it was like.
wagyl wrote:Actually we shouldn't be so harsh: we have been punked. Fundmytravel is obviously a comedy/satire site.
My friend Celena recently went to Japan and at her 5’3” height she towered over everyone.
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