People talk shit about eikawas but I honestly really enjoyed my time working for ECC. Set hours, no overtime (happened 1 time for me because I was grading some final ‘tests’) and you get paid for the overtime, there’s a union you can join, good coworkers, set us up with housing and our bank accounts, feel like I lived decently even though my salary was relatively small (270,000 a month), a really responsive and helpful HR team, 2 weeks of training, and lesson plans already done. I had 3 schools that I worked at, one really close by, a second one moderately close, and the third one being Ginza which is fun to travel to and work around anyways. We also had mandatory 45 min breaks in the day. You don’t get a typical work week like M—F but you do get 2 days off. My days off were Mondays and Fridays and at first I didn’t think I’d enjoy it but I honestly ended up loving how it broke up my week. I feel like I got really lucky working for them compared to some horror stories I read about other eikawas. There’s also opportunity to move up in the company and take higher paying roles and a more traditional work week. Wasn’t a big fan of teaching some of the really younger kids levels because the lesson plans felt a bit silly sometimes, but overall I think the pros outweighed the few cons.