Hi all, I need FG advice! My situation -
I have just handed in my notice at my current place in Fukuoka and I`m going to be in Tokyo in six months. Now, I want to pick up a job at a junior or senior highschool so that i have evening time to play music in Tokyo, but I believe that such posistions are usually filled by the JET program? The private highschools that I`ve seen hiring usually require that you have a work visa already, and from next november I will require full visa sponsorship to keep me a legal happy gaijin. So I can spend 5 months on my current visa in Tokyo doing whatever work i can find living where i can whilst simultaneously hunting for a full sponsorship / contract to start in November. Does anybody have any advice? What are my chances of finding a sponsorship from a school outside the jet programme? I`m sure many FGs have done the move from a smaller city to Tokyo and I`d really like to hear how you went about finding your sponsorship, accomadation ect.
Oh, and I can read / speak japanese to a reasonable standard (I will be passing 2kyu next year I reckon) and have a year and a halfs experience to sell myself with.
Any comments appreciated.