List your strangest-ever Japan job

[Ansony]

200,000 to be the poster child for an O-bon festival ad. Headband, short Happi coat, and those tight white shorts. Everyone looking at my crotch to see if the myth was true. Didn't know the Japanese for "it's not the size, it's how you use it".

Narration for a machine user's manual on video. The English script was, not surprisingly, awful. I told the guy that nobody would understand. He didn't seem to care. Surely someone eventually got killed. I was paid 100,000, however.

[Taro Toporific]

200,000 to be the poster child for an O-bon festival ad. Headband, short Happi coat, and those tight white shorts. Everyone looking at my crotch to see if the myth was true

Ah, come on. You gotta post that festival ad picture.

[goldenboy_ge]

Why is there a girl in an elevator who goes up and down the whole day? All she's doing is "Ohio Gozaimasu" and being cute I'd find that job kinda strange, because when I go into an elevator in Europe, no one is there to say hello....

[Pencilslave]

[quote="&quot"]Did the host thing while living in Hachinohe. I was 19 and lovin it!

Do you mean the male equivalent of being a hostess?(ie, talking to lonely japanese women and getting them to buy drinks)

[American Oyaji]

Did the host thing while living in Hachinohe. I was 19 and lovin it!

Do you mean the male equivalent of being a hostess?(ie, talking to lonely japanese women and getting them to buy drinks)

Ekuzakuri!
(Exactly)

Actually, most of the customers are hostesses.

[GuyJean]

English subtitler/editor of Japanese porn.. Streaming java editor/encoder of porn for cell phones in Taiwan/China.. Kindergarten teacher..Cameraman for Rob Pongi's S&M Show at Dept. H.. Gaijin house janitor.. Middle-man..

GJ

[goldenboy_ge]

English subtitler/editor of Japanese porn.. Streaming java editor/encoder of porn for cell phones in Taiwan/China.. Kindergarten teacher..Cameraman for Rob Pongi's S&M Show at Dept. H.. Gaijin house janitor.. Middle-man.. << I hope there's no organized (wanna be Yakuza :P ) underground FG scene

[GuyJean]

I hope there's no organized (wanna be Yakuza :P ) underground FG scene

Nah.. Just small time stuff, below everyone's radar..

GJ

[puargs]

LOL, FG Yak squad?! Where do I sign up??

[GomiGirl]

Making slang dictionaries for mobile phones.. (hey wait - that is what I do now!!)

(Do you know how many words there are for "penis" in Japanese!!!)

Also, answering support questions for mobile phone dictionary sites.. you know how many people email me every week wanting to meet friends by sending an email to a support line!!! I have some great photos that have been sent by random strangers. I should post some. They are hilarious.

(OK my job isn't that strange but I don't get out much so I have to find amusement where-ever I can find it.)

[jingai]

Hi GG,
For research purposes we need the complete list of Japanese words for "penis" posted here to verify that you do acutally work on such a project and aren't just jerking us around.

Jingai.com is hardly my work but I should post some of the emails I get asking me to help them join/date the bosozoku.

[American Oyaji]

do it

[puargs]

I agree. I could certainly use some expansion to my already extensive repertoire of penis nicknames.

[GuyJean]

Making slang dictionaries for mobile phones.. (Do you know how many words there are for "penis" in Japanese!!!)

..I have some great photos that have been sent by random strangers. I should post some.

A thread in the Premium Members area combining various penis slang terms with your photos from random strangers would be extra-special, FG cool!

GJ

[Blah Pete]

A thread in the Premium Members area combining various penis slang terms with your photos from random strangers would be extra-special, FG cool! Wink

I first read this as:
A thread in the Premium Members area combining various penis photos with your photos from random strangers would be extra-special,

I think I need some coffee to wake up.

[Guile]

Did all you long-term FGs start out this way when you first came to Japan or did these weird jobs evolve from other ones?

[GuyJean]

A thread in the Premium Members area combining various penis photos with your photos from random strangers would be extra-special,

GJ

[FG Lurker]

Did all you long-term FGs start out this way when you first came to Japan or did these weird jobs evolve from other ones?

That reminds me of another odd job I had when I first got here. Absolutely no recollection how I got this job but it was retyping a stereo manual for Matsushita.

Why they needed this damn thing entered into a computer I'll never know -- it must have come out of a computer via laser printer to get the copy I was holding.

It was in five languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian if memory serves. Took a month to complete, pay was about 300,000yen. Thought I was going to go insane trying to type languages that I couldn't read.

I declined to take any further work of the same type...

[Guile]

I get the feeling that in general, bilingual or multilingual skills increase your job opportunities exponentially.

Did most of you know Japanese before you came or did you learn it afterwards? I'm trying to teach myself so I can get by when I get there; but damn, I suck at learning languages.

[FG Lurker]

I get the feeling that in general, bilingual or multilingual skills increase your job opportunities exponentially.

Hell yah!! Literally exponentially.

[quote="Guile"]Did most of you know Japanese before you came or did you learn it afterwards? I'm trying to teach myself so I can get by when I get there]
I couldn't speak a word of Japanese when I arrived. I could count to 10 due to taking some basic Karate in HS, but that was it. No please, thank you, excuse me... Nothing at all. I taught English and drank copious amounts of alcohol!

It wasn't until my 3rd year in Japan that I really started to study. I can't emphasize enough how big a difference there between life in Japan if you can speak Japanese vs life in Japan if you can't. Having 500-1000 Kanji is very helpful in daily life too.

[GomiGirl]

Hi GG,
For research purposes we need the complete list of Japanese words for "penis" posted here to verify that you do acutally work on such a project and aren't just jerking us around.

Well they are very easy to find - you know - ON MY SITE!!!

I have some great photos of some Indian stallions, some Russian girls and somebody even sent me some cat photos.

Most of the emails of people looking for friends are like this..

Gaikokujindesu.KavaihonKanojoishoto Tomadashi naritai Torukojindesu Dokushindesu 23 saidesu Sabishidesu 1.70 CM 67 kg

I reply very politely saying that this is a user support address for a mobile phone site and we are unable to help with introductions.

[American Oyaji]

Gomi-chan,

What's your site address?

[kamome]

I was a promoter of bikini parties for 2 years in a row. Had to convince women to wear bikinis and enter a bikini contest. Put together the whole thing: sponsorships, prizes, DJs, etc. The people who attended still say that those parties rank in the annals of awesome Tokyo parties!

Link

[tatsujin]

Kamome that sounds like the job from heaven, although I'm sure there were many long nights spent burning the candle at both ends

Its a hard life eh?

[goldenboy_ge]

I was a promoter of bikini parties for 2 years in a row.<<< yeah sure.. Had to convince women to wear bikinis and enter a bikini contest. <<< are u serious? Put together the whole thing: sponsorships, prizes, DJs, etc. The people who attended still say that those parties rank in the annals of awesome Tokyo parties!

I guess it's just the perfect job for ya and a gift from heaven

[goldenboy_ge]

Did all you long-term FGs start out this way when you first came to Japan or did these weird jobs evolve from other ones? <<<Haha! This is how it all started for most FG's in Japan :P

[GomiGirl]

Gomi-chan,

What's your site address?

OK twist my arm.. TangoTown

Note this is the demo site for the web as it is a mobile phone site.

This is an official site with DoCoMo i-mode, Vodafone and EZweb so you will need to put in your pin number. Only available in Japan and Australia on Telstra i-mode.

/shameless self promotion

[American Oyaji]

:P

[DJEB]

I guess the weirdest things I've taught are an introductory economics course and a logic class - at an eikaiwa school.

Oops. I forgot biology. (No. No sexual innuendos there.)

[Guile]

It wasn't until my 3rd year in Japan that I really started to study. I can't emphasize enough how big a difference there between life in Japan if you can speak Japanese vs life in Japan if you can't. Having 500-1000 Kanji is very helpful in daily life too.

That makes me feel much better. I also assume that it is much easier to learn when you're exposed to it on a daily basis.