Please hear my situation...

[hanasims]

Ok, I would like the opinions of you FGs. I am a 27 y/o guy, with a B.S. degree. I have been working in a lab for 2 years as a lab tech. I will be moving to Japan in August of 2004 to live for an extended period of time(ie 2 or more years at least). I will have about $5,000 when I go, having paid off all my student loans and other bills. I will be debt free. I am moving with my girlfriend, whose mother is very wealthy. I have experience teaching English to Japanese people and I expect to find work in Japan doing the same. My girlfriend will have a Masters in Microbiology and she is fluent in English. Do you guys think she will be able to find a good job? Will I be able to make enough money to support myself? I make good money in the U.S., from my day job and just husltling. I have alot of wholesale connections. Can I use them in Japan to sell American items in Japan? I am a hustler, can I work that angle in Japan?

[devicenull]

Ok, I would like the opinions of you FGs. I am a 27 y/o guy, with a B.S. degree. I have been working in a lab for 2 years as a lab tech. I will be moving to Japan in August of 2004 to live for an extended period of time(ie 2 or more years at least). I will have about $5,000 when I go, having paid off all my student loans and other bills. I will be debt free. I am moving with my girlfriend, whose mother is very wealthy. I have experience teaching English to Japanese people and I expect to find work in Japan doing the same. My girlfriend will have a Masters in Microbiology and she is fluent in English. Do you guys think she will be able to find a good job? Will I be able to make enough money to support myself? I make good money in the U.S., from my day job and just husltling. I have alot of wholesale connections. Can I use them in Japan to sell American items in Japan? I am a hustler, can I work that angle in Japan?

play it both ways... sell japanese junk to americans

[omae mona]

play it both ways... sell japanese junk to americans

For example, I would predict a sudden increase in demand from Sacramento, California, for this magazine. I think there is an export opportunity here.

[maraboutslim]

Sorry, but I think the government has given out all their "hustler" visas. You can apply again in 2005.

[kamome]

Hanasims:

Sure, you can be a hustler selling American crap in Japan. But why waste your MS degree by teaching English in Japan? You're obviously well-educated and should have better prospects in the States. What's your motivation for coming here? And where does teaching fit into your career plans?

[eidolon]

This sounds somewhat similiar to what I'm going to try to swing. I'm planning to graduate high school, then stay in the states for a couple years saving up money and taking Japanese language classes at the university. Then I'd like to go to Japan for college, and hopefully make a permanent stay of it after I graduate. I figure I'd live off of money I'd saved back at home and made by selling Japanese goods online until I could land a part time job, after which I'd still supplement my income exporting goodies to folks in the states and elsewhere (I'd like any info people have on this practice by the way, ie... how feasible (read: profitable) it is after export duties and whatnot, and how it is looked upon by the relevant officials.) I'm definitely going to make Japanese a part of my post secondary education, so I figure if I can't land a job in my chosen field (electronics), I could just take a position teaching English or translating until a better job opened up, and if I couldn't make a go of it in Japan, I could just take a job in the US applying the skills aqquired whilst there (namely, a decent knowledge of the Japanese language, if I'm half as able to learn it as I think I am.)