Moonlighting

[ramchop]

Anyone here teach private students part-time? What's the best way to go about it?

Is ETC a good way to get started? Their rates sound reasonable to me.

[Taro Toporific]

Anyone here teach private students part-time? What's the best way to go about it?

Is ETC a good way to get started? Their rates sound reasonable to me.

Whoa, Ramchop! You're chopping close to bone here. Read on...

REMINDER/warning to all FG:
Japanese companies have a small standard clause in their employment contract that prohibits moonlighting. Yes, yes, most gaijin moonlight, but just remember to keep it, "Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush" as Danny DeVito playing smarmy reporter Sid Hudgens would say.

Having that disclaimer out of the way, for persons like Ramchop or Sachi with some solid bio-experience, a much better paying moonlighting gig is medical editing.

Check out medical conferences/conventions in Japan, press the flesh and pass around your meishi. Spam all the major med companies for a rewriting job. Target the documentation units of the biggest companies with snailmail resumes. FOLLOW UP any and all responses at 6-month intervals. Hint: any response from a Japanese company means they might need you in the future. Expect a 10-to-1 hit ratio on your targeted resume campaign.

[ramchop]

REMINDER/warning to all FG:
Japanese companies have a small standard clause in their employment contract that prohibits moonlighting.

"A) 2) b) You may not accept employment in Japan, with or without remuneration."

Is that the clause?

[Taro Toporific]

REMINDER/warning to all FG:
Japanese companies have a small standard clause in their employment contract that prohibits moonlighting.

"A) 2) b) You may not accept employment in Japan, with or without remuneration."

Is that the clause?

Yep, and let's just say I've got my ram-chopped on that one a few times. OUCH!

[ramchop]

So how did you get caught?

I'm sure my boss wouldn't care if I did a few hours on the side elsewhere (he pays me to give him English lessons 1.5 hours/week because in part he worries I'm not earning enough).

But it's not my boss who pays me.

Is there anyway that my tax records (if I'm forced to pay tax on the moonlighting) can be checked? If not how could my paymaster possibly know?

[Big Booger]

Interesting topic. Being in the inaka, if I tried something like this, Koizumi would know in a day or so.. Word spreads around here like a varsity cheerleader at a peter bumping contest.

[Taro Toporific]

So how did you get caught?

In JapanInc, everyone knows everyone. Everytime I take an outside job, I bump into schoolmates and relatives of my employers. OFTEN, like today, this is incest:
Right now, I am doing evaulation of an IT project for a US Consulting Firm for Maybe-No5-Japan Inc. Howevever, the job I'm evaluating was subcontracted via Maybe-the-biggest-Ad-Company-in-Japan Inc where I was the moonlighting person who did all the work.

I'm sure my boss wouldn't care if....

Is there anyway that my tax records (if I'm forced to pay tax on the moonlighting) can be checked? If not how could my paymaster possibly know?

NOPE! Japanese Tax records are a total farce, computerwise. I am good friends with a field auditor, and he tells me Stone Age stories of the tax office's computing. The tax office cannot pull a record for a private moonlighting check because they cannot even do it for themselves with any ease.