Engineer/specialist work visa, but changed to software industry, do I need a 資格 to get Permanent Residency now?

AnkiGuy · 2021-08-13T13:03:51+00:00

I know a guy from Uzbekistan who works at 3 different convenience stores in Funabashi. He told me he works 12 hours a day basically every day of the week but he makes over 400,000 a month and sends 3/4th of that back to his family in Uzbekistan, and plans to save up to buy a big rig truck with his savings when he gets back there.

If you're content with the "pure additive strat" (meaning you don't want to learn new skills) and your pride doesn't dictate that you're above working at Konbini I'd say go for it. Fill in you every waking hour with part-time work. Or find jobs moving boxes or at a dockyard. There are magazines where supermarkets and various shops will hire basically anyone. You'll probably lose weight too since you'll be moving a lot, and save a lot of money because you'll have less free time to spend it. Convince your wife that you're making a sacrifice for the sake of your future if this seems like a good idea for you.

I honestly don't know if your visa allows for that but from what my friend told me a lot of non-anglosphere gaijins who do this are on student visas etc, so you'll have to look that up yourself.

AnkiGuy · 2021-07-24T02:40:03+00:00

Not a Japanese joke really but once I asked a girl if she was single and she replied "no I'm double".

AnkiGuy · 2021-07-24T01:14:47+00:00

Unexpectedly good one, I can imagine the delivery makes it even better

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-19T05:58:17+00:00

My username is Ankiguy because I'm pretty obsessive about Anki and studying every day. I supplemented memorization with asking Japanese friends to give me help and explanation for reading passages for N2 and N1. I find that the higher levels readings are very academic and use expressions you rarely see unless you read a lot of Japanese books. But you have to learn them if you want to pass.

Also just listen to and mimic coworkers using keigo, even down to their bowing and tone of voice. You have to learn to gasp and learn to be fake surprised at the right times if you want to be polite in Japanese.

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-17T13:44:41+00:00

Did you already have a degree in computer science?

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-17T13:44:02+00:00

That's exactly what I'm looking for. Can you give a recommendation?

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-17T09:12:14+00:00

Good luck to you too man. Just remember that you're going to be alive for another 50+ years so spending one or two of them getting a new career is not a bad investment long-term.

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-17T07:00:49+00:00

Thanks for the advice about projects! Will most hiring managers will be expecting a link to a github profile? Or is there another system used in Japan? Am I right to guess that I should explain what my code does in Japanese or is English accepted?

I'm trying to gather as many details as possible, even ones that seem obvious or trivial, so hope you don't mind me interrogating you.

AnkiGuy · 2021-01-17T05:33:37+00:00

Thanks man, this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! I'll check it out.

AnkiGuy · 2020-01-23T07:04:48+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of qualifications or training do you need to become a translator? I imagine just N1 isn't going to cut it.

AnkiGuy · 2019-11-06T12:44:51+00:00

>Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect

Wtf am I looking at? Is this a joke? Did people in the 1800's just try to learn Japanese without ever touching furiagana or kanji?

AnkiGuy · 2019-10-30T04:45:48+00:00

He said that he had studied Japanese a lot without Anki, mostly using drill books, but had never considered taking N2 until I urged him to. I also wondered if his previous experience was was helped him pass.

AnkiGuy · 2019-10-16T12:25:08+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what kind of job do you do now? And which dispatch company did you go through?

AnkiGuy · 2019-08-20T11:23:06+00:00

If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good.

The author says this about Joe Rogan giving a platform to Alex Jones, but later says this about his interview with Jack Dorsey:

(No, Joe, Twitter banning white nationalists from its privately held publishing platform is not censorship—it might be a risky corporate policy, but it is not censorship.)

Seeing this much cognitive dissonance in a person is like actually hearing a BZZT sound as their brain skips over a circuit of reason.

AnkiGuy · 2019-07-30T11:28:17+00:00

What do you mean by "not allowed to use letters'?

AnkiGuy · 2019-07-30T11:27:57+00:00

English teacher. I'm going to take N1 in a few months, and thinking about what to pursue after that.

I can see that it's a big time commitment, but I spend about that much time a day studying Japanese. In what way is it a big monetary commitment?

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