Hallo all, I'm new to this board as a member but I'm a long time lurker.
I'm prepared for the usual humorous comments/sarcasm when asking about working in Japan but I'm not a newcomer to the Engrish industry in Japan. I've worked somewhere else for a while (hint, my username) and I'd like to return to Japan as I just enjoyed my time there teaching English much, much better than the place I was for the last few years.
The problem is I'm too old for JET, can't seem to find any eikaiwa jobs that don't involve absolutely shitty salaries and have 'entry level' screaming from the ads (yes, I know that eikaiwa jobs are largely 'entry' level although I've made my living from working as an Engrish teacher who takes their work seriously and can write their own curriculum etc), aren't part time gigs for people residing in Japan now, aren't demanding MAs or Phds (even senmon gakko jobs seem to demand them on the few occasions those jobs are actually advertised) etc etc.
I'm now a professional nomad but the last country I lived in won't allow people like me who have editing, research etc in their work backgrounds to do that work on the same visa as English teaching. Unlike Japan.
I'm sure even eikaiwas won't want to give me a job (not that I'd apply for most of the shit being shovelled out there now) because the Japanese have the idea that we have to fit into a box of not wanting to teach English at a certain age and should be in our own country.
I enjoy living outside that box and frankly I found out when I went home from Japan some time ago that the job market had become rigidly compartmentalised, and nobody gave a ff what I did in Japan - and they weren't run of the mill chain school jobs. My work history in Japan is a fair bit different from that of most people who did the eikaiwa thing.
The other big no no in my home country was the fact that no matter how qualified I was for the jobs I previously did at university, all the ones I applied for were either lined up for somebody who was already doing the job on a limited term contract or lined up for people who had contacts. My home city is just shithouse for open employment positions at the best of times and it was bad when I went home from Japan, and kind of horrendous now.
Any ideas on where to find job ads that don't exclude people from outside Japan and need somebody with a lot of diversity in their Japan teaching history? I suspect they don't exist these days. I'd have loved to find a website with senmon gakko jobs as I am not considered suitable for university/college jobs with no MA/Phd but actually did university teaching among other things back home.
Daijob doesn't seem right for me. My spoken Japanese is fine, my kanji reading has really dropped off. I also don't have a biz degree or something like Economics, Biochemistry etc.
Any suggestions? Thank you.