Tip for Eikaiwa teachers changing careers

[yanpa]

Please, FFS, stop citing lousy pay and working conditions and career prospects as the reason why you want to change careers. I don't give a shit about what you have to do now to support yourself/your family/your figurine collection, going on about it makes you sound like a whiny loser. What I am interested in is what motivates you to do the job you want to do, and what previous relevant experience you have. Also if you're handing out business cards at networking events, I don't care how hip/funky they look, but it would help (especially if you have a common combination of names) to give some sort of URL or way of finding you online (even just Linkedin or whatever), 'cos that's the way the world works, especially in this particular line of business.

[Taro Toporific]

TL;DR
"Stop citing lousy pay, working conditions and career prospects 'cos that's the way the world works."

[kurogane]

Please, FFS, stop citing lousy pay and working conditions and career prospects as the reason why you want to change careers. I don't give a shit about what you have to do now to support yourself/your family/your figurine collection, going on about it makes you sound like a whiny loser. .

Do you sometimes get the idea that they think of you like some sort of benificent grief and career counsellor put there solely to aid them in their faltering half-backwards journey to adulthood and professional achievement? In Kyoto at The Office (the usual bar) we used to call those guys the People's Republic of Kyoto gang; apparently anybody with even a semblance of a profession and proper income was expected to provide free beer, cigarrettes and a sympathetic ear to those who were still trying to make it as an Artist/Guitarist/Karate Dojoite/whatever whilst paying their rent with intermittent Eglish teaching. I almost had to change bars they got so clingy and presumptuous.

[yanpa]

Please, FFS, stop citing lousy pay and working conditions and career prospects as the reason why you want to change careers. I don't give a shit about what you have to do now to support yourself/your family/your figurine collection, going on about it makes you sound like a whiny loser. .

Do you sometimes get the idea that they think of you like some sort of benificent grief and career counsellor put there solely to aid them in their faltering half-backwards journey to adulthood and professional achievement? In Kyoto at The Office (the usual bar) we used to call those guys the People's Republic of Kyoto gang; apparently anybody with even a semblance of a profession and proper income was expected to provide free beer, cigarrettes and a sympathetic ear to those who were still trying to make it as an Artist/Guitarist/Karate Dojoite/whatever whilst paying their rent with intermittent Eglish teaching. I almost had to change bars they got so clingy and presumptuous.

I must hang out in the wrong Hub... I tend to encounter - usually at the kind of event where networking takes place - the "I made a website in PHP and Javascript, how do I get into the lucrative IT industry?" grasping-at-straws crowd, or worse, the "back in the real world I used to work in IT but then I came to Japan and I couldn't get a proper job and it's been 10 years and my Japanese sucks and the kids are starting to cost real money, please help me Mr. Fellow Whiteguy" camp. (Ironically, I only have a humanities degree and nary an IT qualification to my name, so by rights I should be spending my working days asking if the customer would like to upgrade from 単品 to セット).

[Coligny]

IT being 1/4 tech skills and 3/4 people skills unless you are at Nasa... Better graduate in psyco-sociology than anything else...

[kurogane]

I must hang out in the wrong Hub... I tend to encounter - ------- the grasping-at-straws please help me Mr. Fellow Whiteguy[/i]" camp..

Well, that sounds like the same ilk without the arch pretence of the Kyoto Groover, because that presumptuous identification and pathetic pleading sounds about right.

BTW, the only thing the Kyoto HUB is good for is Friday Night Eigo-pires looking to be immersed in English for the weekend. Gaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwd I wish there were more Random Word Order Girls down south here.