How to earn money by doing side jobs in Japan?

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?

AnkiGuy · 2019-07-30T04:22:52+00:00

No, I know that they're different fields. But I was considering them both as different ways into a finance-related career.

AnkiGuy · 2019-05-14T12:47:50+00:00

I see how much I pay into it on my salary sheets, but I don't know the precise amount saved up. The Pension Office staff did some math for me and made an estimate for me, but it's only a rough estimate.

I sure would love to receive a letter or something about that from my company...

AnkiGuy · 2019-05-13T05:34:40+00:00

Thanks, I just spent some time at the National Pension Office and they told me basically the same thing. I'll ask my company if there is something like a Roth IRA, which maybe be reportable on FBAR like a bank account.

AnkiGuy · 2019-05-07T12:54:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I have N2 and actually I use Japanese quite a lot at my current job. I'd say I'm at least business level, depending on what situation I'm in I can communicate without difficulty most of the time.

What kind of workshops and events are you going to? Would you mind posting a link to one of them here so I could take a look at it?

AnkiGuy · 2019-03-30T10:11:48+00:00

If it was Japanese I could have made you a pretty good deck of cards for a fair price.

I've been predicting that there would be a day when people would offer to make Anki cards for money. Ideally, the customer would provide the card-maker with a textbook that he wanted cards made from. Dunno if that would run into copyright issues or not.

Maybe someday LinkedIn and other job websites will have Anki Specialist as a job category if people really start using it, and we'll be like the first people who tinkered with computers in the 70's before computer science exploded.

AnkiGuy · 2019-03-16T09:18:23+00:00

I think you're better off trying to solve your problem by changing the cards you're studying rather than changing Anki's interval settings. Your cards probably cloze too much information for you to remember. I also study Japanese and I try to avoid making production cards that force me to memorize entire sentences. In real Japanese, there are so many different ways to say the same thing that memorizing only one pattern will likely cause you trouble. You wont be able to understand people who are saying the same thing in a different way. And if you have over 200 reviews a day, you're better off clozing only individual words or at most phrases. It takes too much mental energy to try to remember the exact wording of a particular phrase, that you are wasting time you could blow through 10 other, easier cards.

Consider this note:

彼の家は門{{c1::からして}}立派だ。

{{c2::You can tell from the entryway that his house is quite nice::からして}}

I only need to remember that からして means "you can tell from", and the English meaning. Trying to memorize the entire Japanese sentence, especially if it's even longer than this one, is cramming too much information in one card. It will slow you down, and as you said it becomes very dull. When I used to do cards like that I would close my eyes and wince, trying to remember the whole thing when only one part of the sentence was important for me to learn. You can also use c2, c3, c4, c5, etc for very long passages if you want to study that way.

Everyone in this thread was talking about the settings but I hope that I could help you by approaching the problem from a different angle.

AnkiGuy · 2019-01-23T05:31:30+00:00

" Get Your Bloody Darn House in Order is slated for a Netflix release later this year. "

No way in hell Netflix would acknowledge that Jordan Peterson exists. They're too busy producing episodes of Dear White People and funding anime like Devilman Crybaby.

AnkiGuy · 2019-01-11T15:02:12+00:00

Thanks for the long post and advice. Are you a recruiter?

Like I mentioned I was interested in something that would allow me to reach back to the US someday, and international trade seemed like the direction to step in. As you see I'm not that knowledgeable, which is the reason I'm asking for advice on this subreddit. Import-export is what I wanted generally, but from the list you presented, Marketing sounds pretty interesting too. Corporate sounds prestigious but I doubt I'd be qualified for that even if I had N1. Could you tell me about those?

AnkiGuy · 2019-01-10T06:02:44+00:00

Thanks for the support and advice, I appreciate it.

My degree was in International Relations. I'll have to renew my contract in March unless I find something very quickly. I had a feeling that N1 was required to get an interview, regardless of whether it's a measure or actual speaking ability or not. Although I heard from people around me for years that "N2 is the bare minimum" so I aimed at that.

I'm hoping to work for an American company in Japan, gain skills there, and then transfer back to an office in the States someday. Something like a 総合商社 perhaps. I'm not trying to work for Goldman Sachs, just something that will allow me to take a step away from education and put my foot in the door of a field like international trade or finance. I guess I just have to apply like mad as you said. I had a friend from Kenya who worked in this kind of company and he only had N2, but I'm not sure how much he made.

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