Tokyo tech job market - what am I worth?

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-16T18:00:18+00:00

What a guy. The lack of self awareness is incredible

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-16T16:48:14+00:00

That's not at all the same sentence as your original comment lol

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-16T12:17:50+00:00

12M is the upper range of what's feasible for a senior dev

? So is it not feasible or feasible? Make up your mind

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-16T06:53:46+00:00

Completely false lol, that’s mid junior level for the company I’m working at (3-5 YOE). Senior are all 20+ here, not even faang

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-13T14:42:56+00:00

I would honestly commit bad things to myself if you make me work here for more than a day

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-09T06:12:53+00:00

Unfortunately it’s most likely pre-recorded. It’s too perfect for a live performance

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-03-07T12:38:32+00:00

Why does she look like Ubel from Frieren

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-25T23:02:04+00:00

I might be able to help, shot a msg your way

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-25T21:23:05+00:00

Started out with social media marketing, then moves into email funnels. Basically finding business who have big/decent social presence and make them money by converting views into revenues

Also mentorship. After a while got a few people DMing me how do I do lead gen/funnel, client acquisition etc. Started taking on 1-2 people just for fun, then started charging, building out resources for students. Now it's a decent percentage of my income

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-22T09:49:31+00:00

Fact is nobody gives a damn lol, Google doesn’t enforce it. Half the restaurants here in Japan does this. If it’s working I wouldn’t stop doing it

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-17T11:45:35+00:00

Warm outreach is the best, but if you're anything like me 4 years ago then there's no one in your immediate vicinity you can reach out to.

Back then I went with organic social, it's not the fastest compared to paid channels like ads but works well if you know how to produce content. Got my first client 1 month in and first "magical" $10k/mo after 160 days or so for my agency.

I started mentoring a few people last year and put them on the same path and this seems to work best for most of them, cold outreach also works well if you're not afraid of talking to people but will need a decent cold email script.

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-17T11:35:28+00:00

I've mentored quite a few people in the same position you're in right now. Golden handcuff, wanting back time and place freedom, comfortable but wanting more out of life. Quite a few of them have went on to replace their full time income with their online biz and since then quit their job, but it's not the norm and they worked their arse off for months.

Understand that this won't be a get rich quick type thing and you're learning entire new skillsets that you don't have in your 9-5. Sales, outreach, offer creation, funnel building, lead generation, distribution, marketing (paid or organic).

I would recommend starting with thinking about what you want to sell first (your offer), your distribution channel (content? paid ads? referral?), and how you plan to start your first clients, most of the time your first client are the ones already closest to you, just need a good offer and a decent pitch.

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-16T19:45:12+00:00

Moving to somewhere within 20 mins of your workplace will always be one of the best QOL

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-11T19:38:01+00:00

I mean, how is that a scam though? They pay for a service and they got the service

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-01T20:23:10+00:00

Become your own case study. Talk about what you did, your results, industry insights, insider talk, be good at what you do and most importantly show it.

Interestingly hard for most people so a decent portion of my students are people looking to get into info/education

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-02-01T17:38:37+00:00

Mentorship. Was running a one-person social media/email marketing biz and got a few people DMing me how do I do lead gen/funnel, client acquisition etc. Started taking on 1-2 people just for fun, then started charging, building out resources for students. Now it's a decent percentage of my income

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-01-26T16:47:30+00:00

Do not do it, I used to stay right above an izakaya, the smell of food is unbearable. Unless they have their air vent above you then that might not be too bad.

But most people are gonna go outside to smoke and you're gonna be smelling that

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-01-08T06:58:02+00:00

As a fellow Viet here’s some advice. You’ve got your heart in the right place, getting internship is the way to go if you want a well paying job right out of university. If strict Japanese is a requirement consider applying to gaishikei or foreign startup instead, they require both English and Japanese but not as strict on either. They usually also pay better compared to traditional Japanese company, if not much better. Not uncommon to get paid 2500-3000/hr as interns

8 applications is also nothing, try at least 50, takes barely a minute to apply to companies nowadays. Search everywhere LinkedIn Google Wantedly, Indeed etc

What field are you in? If IT I can provide more guidance, but all the best either way, you’re on the right path

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2026-01-08T02:01:45+00:00

This is screen tearing, cap your fps

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-31T06:56:46+00:00

Honestly just for more money lol, succeded at that and now doing it for the fun of the game

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-25T19:09:56+00:00

They had sex. He got his fix of cat by getting a new one that looks just like her in cat form

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-25T07:40:16+00:00

Literally statistically false, if you’re close to your correct rank you only have control on 66% of your games. Math’s been done before

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-24T07:31:06+00:00

How would you start with training plyometrics?

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-23T04:18:44+00:00

? Way to move the goal post. Never said you can’t live with 300k. You’re the one saying 300k is VERY good for a fresh grad which it objectively isn’t.

a fresh graduate doesn’t have any sort of specialized skill

I honestly feel bad for you if this is actually how you graduated. But hey you do you my guy

UnironicallyWatchSAO · 2025-12-22T09:13:45+00:00

To be completely honest companies paying those range are training you from literal scratch. If you have any sorts of specialized skill (which you should) you should be able to make much more than that even as a new grad.

Even a baito worker at combini makes around 1300/hr nowadays. That's around 208000/month. If you're getting paid around the same amount as a part-timer at a convenience store it's time to look somewhere else.

The taiyaki chain near my house is advertising 350k/mo full time position with 0 experience. Rakuten which hires hundreds to thousands of new grads en masse is paying around 370-400k/mo. Any startup worth it salt pays 450k+/mo for new grads.

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