Gaijin Job Poll

[Tiger Stripe]

I'd like to get an idea of the demand of jobs for gaijin in Japan.

Please vote as accurately as possible and provide some description of what you do, and if an option is not suitable for your line of work just describe your occupation somewhat.

[Taro Toporific]

[FG Lurker]

I'd like to get an idea of the demand of jobs for gaijin in Japan.

Please vote as accurately as possible and provide some description of what you do, and if an option is not suitable for your line of work just describe your occupation somewhat.

I think you are missing a lot of options... "Small business owner", "Eikaiwa teacher", "JET", just to name 3 that come to mind immediately. "Corporate Office" also seems pretty general.

[Taro Toporific]

I think you are missing a lot of options....

I was feeling that this question got asked before.....

old thread: Tired of the U.S.

so what are the other percentages doing?
IT?, public relations?, salaryman type jobs?, mopping up excrement?

There's only "some" demand for all of the above. It's superior skills, degree and 1-kyu/2-kyu Japanese language test level that has a greater demand here.

On the FG Forum, I suppose it's 50% Eikaiwa, 20% IT, 10% biz professionals, 5% students/arbieto and the rest entrepreneurs (with a lot of crossover among those categories).

[Greji]

I think you are missing a lot of options... "Small business owner", "Eikaiwa teacher", "JET", just to name 3 that come to mind immediately. "Corporate Office" also seems pretty general.

Ahh, where do I tic "Pimp"?

[GomiGirl]

Ahh, where do I tic "Pimp"?

That explains the wardrobe.... I just thought you had a fetish for leopard print velveteen flares.

[kurohinge1]

. . . I just thought you had a fetish for leopard print velveteen flares . . .

You say it like it's a bad thing.

[Greji]

That explains the wardrobe.... I just thought you had a fetish for leopard print velveteen flares.

You mean I should have been in leotards all this time?

[(1VB)freels]

I am Other.

[IkemenTommy]

[sublight]

I'd probably count in a couple of different categories. I work in an office, but writing ad copy. Generally print ads for Japanese companies for use overseas.

That's just during the week, though. Weekends, I do weddings as a rent-a-priest.

[geronimo]

The overwhelming majority of gaijin working in Japan fall into one of only a few categories:

1) English teacher
2) IT related
3) Finance related
4) Recruiting (usually IT or finance recuiters)
5) Entertainment business (bartenders, hostess, etc.)
6) Domestic services (maids etc)
7) Factory workers (e.g. Brazillian auto workers in Toyota city )

Most North Americans, Aussies and Europeans fall into categories 1-4

[IkemenTommy]

The overwhelming majority of gaijin working in Japan fall into one of only a few categories:

1) English teacher
2) IT related
3) Finance related
4) Recruiting (usually IT or finance recuiters)
5) Entertainment business (bartenders, hostess, etc.)
6) Domestic services (maids etc)
7) Factory workers (e.g. Brazillian auto workers in Toyota city )

Most North Americans, Aussies and Europeans fall into categories 1-4

You forgot the military. They make a huge part of the population as well.

[Greji]

The overwhelming majority of gaijin working in Japan fall into one of only a few categories

Ahh, you forgot gigolo. Does that mean I'm going to be soon unemployed. Also, I note that you didn't include the Aussies under job caegory #5, which I find interesting because there was a time in the not to distant past, when you couldn't find a professional FG drink slinger that wasn't from Oz, with very few exceptions.

[dimwit]

Homeless would also be an option, but I guess probably wouldn't have an internet connection.

[james]

[quote="dimwit"]Homeless would also be an option, but I guess probably wouldn't have an internet connection.]

i beg to differ

Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless

[GomiGirl]

You forgot car exporting...

There are just so many jobs here that it is really hard to try to categorise them. Why do you want to anyway?

[geronimo]

you didn't include the Aussies under job caegory #5, which I find interesting because there was a time in the not to distant past, when you couldn't find a professional FG drink slinger that wasn't from Oz

well thats true but I didnt include them in #5 simply because FG drink slingers make up a statistically insignificant (albeit important) percentage of the the gaijin working in Japan.

Eastern European and Russian hostesses/dancers outnumber the Aussie bartenders by a landslide

[oyajikun]

We're missing 'Over worked, IT Slave' as well.

[Mulboyne]

There are a lot of civil servants working here for embassies, trade missions and the like. Mainly, but not only, in Tokyo. Small business owners are numerous too. Hospitality and catering is one big group but wholesaling is also very large.

People always remember that many FGs are teachers but you hear less about those on the other side of the fence, the FG students. Their in-country time is often two or three years and there are a number around the country.

[Taro Toporific]

There are a lot of civil servants ...Small business owners ... Hospitality and catering .... wholesaling is also very large.
People always remember that many FGs are teachers but you hear less about those on the other side of the fence, the FG students..two or three years and there are a number around the country.

There are gaijin and there are gaijin.
If I only wanna look at non-'traveler', Western gaijin here for more than two years, Tokyo is just just a small village of 14,000 people most of whom I know in some way or another. I was at GomiGirl's bother's hanabe party a couple weeks ago (--thanks for the invite and I still owe ya GG--) and I "knew" every one of the 50 Western and Japanese people there even though I met them for the very first time.

[IkemenTommy]

You forgot car exporting...

And car jacking, if you consider that as a career.

[MrUltimateGaijin]

lol at Interenet

[F_O_R_E_X]

My breed n butter is internet related:

trading currencies, stock indexes, commodities (copper & coffee)

thru internet based platforms/brokerages.

[manveru]

mostly IT-related, doing some sysadmin and web-dev.
Also developing a reporting-application, and, i'm the only here in the office with a clue it seems...