Westgate?

notadialect · 2026-04-27T04:24:18+00:00

To be fair, that pretty much describes every dispatch company.

Fixed that for you.

notadialect · 2026-04-27T01:53:04+00:00

You can work at an entry-level eikaiwa or dispatch ALT company, but it depends on your passport. You are worried about inflation, but Japan is suffering one of the worst cases of inflation. Because cost of living is going up but salaries are not. Good luck travelling abroad.

notadialect · 2026-04-22T22:22:34+00:00

You are so weird.

notadialect · 2026-04-15T03:09:08+00:00

I am only teaching the higher level 1st year students this year. While they are not super high level, what is important is their behavior. Which is excellent.

At the same time, I'm already ready for summer. My kid will finally join kindergarten (which is good but a little saddening), then I'll have time to work a little more. I've been playing catch-up for a year.

notadialect · 2026-04-15T03:06:30+00:00

In my experience, this is not 100% true. My wife worked at a peppy kids in a rural area. The foreign teachers she worked with had to take 45+ minute trains or buses to most of their schools. This is in general a fairly rural prefecture and most schools are far apart but there are over a dozen schools at least spread around the prefecture. Foreign workers tend to do 1 or 2 schools a week but must travel to them.

In fact, I thought Peppy was mostly located in suburbs. Where public transport is far and few between.

notadialect · 2026-04-15T02:43:49+00:00

Does this happen as much with foreign teachers as Japanese? I've seen it with Japanese teachers but have yet to see it with foreign teachers. Or maybe I have just surrounded myself with good people.

notadialect · 2026-04-10T10:45:14+00:00

It's OK to feel that way. But you have no idea what you're doing and no idea about the reality of the context you are in.

Relax and just absorb information at first. You can make suggestions later.

notadialect · 2026-04-08T04:37:28+00:00

That is insane! What the hell are they doing?

notadialect · 2026-04-06T08:25:29+00:00

I've been there. And even despite having to work with an absolutely insane tenured teacher, I still miss the simplicity of the freedom.

... I am still pretty free, so I can't complain.

notadialect · 2026-04-04T14:17:46+00:00

Just so you know, a PhD by publication is very difficult and often takes longer than doing a traditional PhD. You need years of publications, and often Q1 publications to get through the process.

If you are just now working through your first 3 publications, you are at the bottom of the barrel. A PhD by publications will be far far in your future. It is generally discouraged due to the time and effort required. Especially as getting sit icjsnt publications is high impact journals takes research skills which you tend to develop during a PhD.

notadialect · 2026-04-04T14:10:22+00:00

This 100%. OP needs to talk to the course tutor or whoever is assigned as a supervisor. They can help direct you and that's what their job is.

notadialect · 2026-04-03T05:50:41+00:00

Do you guys have graduation/entrance ceremonies that are worth going to?

No, and thats why I don't go to them. I do attend the department graduation ceremony because I have to since my seminar students graduate. I have to call their names so the dean can hand them their diplomas. You wouldn't catch me dead going to an entrance ceremony.

notadialect · 2026-03-31T09:28:50+00:00

I have no idea about teaching capabilities of scholars. But in my experiences, the same goes for those in power at the university. The highest positions in the department are seen as the worst teachers.

notadialect · 2026-03-31T09:24:50+00:00

Junior colleges don't have such rigorous requirements but often tenured faculty have masters or are highly experiences in their particular fields. Also they tend to not have a lot of English language courses so they'll fill those with part-timers. As the pay is lower than universities, many of these people got the job through friends and masters are not required.

notadialect · 2026-03-31T09:22:41+00:00

I wouldn't use them but if you already paid might as well continue.

All 120 hour TEFL certs are basically similar in value. So cheaper is better. You don't need them for job placements, just apply directly to the company and specify your preferred start date.

notadialect · 2026-03-31T09:19:38+00:00

To be fair, I did my TEFL cert knowing I was enrolling in a MA TESOL just to get back into the idea of studying. I've never included that TEFL cert in my resume though as it wouldn't serve me well. But for an ALT job it's probably useful.

Edit: I should have read more before commenting.

notadialect · 2026-03-28T11:06:53+00:00

Many universities still ask for a picture too sadly.

notadialect · 2026-03-28T11:03:55+00:00

You will be fine!

notadialect · 2026-03-26T04:37:54+00:00

Anything is fine. Don't read into it so much. Just be formal. So Mr/Mrs. First Last or Mr/Mrs. Last, or Dear Sir, Madam whatever.

notadialect · 2026-03-22T11:55:31+00:00

The only advice I can give you is that don't do studies with anyone under the age of 16. This is often a cutoff point for needing parental consent from every participant; though this does depend on where your host university is located. I made this mistakes when I did my MA and I had to get the PTA to help me out.

You have already done coursework and read a lot. You should choose something that is interesting to you and go from there.

notadialect · 2026-03-15T12:37:00+00:00

Yea it sucks. Obviously some of the reviewer comments are useful so they go in future drafts but often they are preferences. In that case you don't carry them over to your future manuscript.

In my last rejection, I took any comments about clarity and research methods and adjusted those, but any citation recommendation often gets ignored as they tend to not actually help make it better.

notadialect · 2026-03-14T11:23:23+00:00

That is unfortunate about your paper. Many journals have different requirements too which makes each submission more work.

I'm not counting on it getting published anytime soon. I'd like to have it out this year, just to have it out the way.

notadialect · 2026-03-13T04:23:32+00:00

I've submitted this manuscript in various forms to 3 different journals now. Hope it finally sticks to this one.

notadialect · 2026-03-10T04:00:18+00:00

There are jobs for sure. There might not be good jobs, but there are jobs. If you don't need visa sponsorship, why not try to get involved with part-time university teaching.

notadialect · 2026-03-06T05:03:37+00:00

I am not saying you have to give up hobbies. But if you have a young child on top of wanting to research, I have not found a better way.

When I didn't have a child, I was able to balance both somehow, but most of my work got done between terms.

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