Name: 日本での外国人の仕事の種類と日本での学生としての仕事内容 (TYPES OF WORK FOR FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN & What My Job Is As a Student in Japan)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:56:50.000Z
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But honestly to give you the full tea on that job, like honestly I didn't like it, I didn't really like it, at all.

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Hey guys, it's Mikan and today I was supposed to upload a more interesting video,

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but guess what happened! I'm just so unlucky, like honestly just so unlucky.

editing this video that turned out to be literally 40 minutes straight,

And as soon as I exported, it my computer crashed and burned! Not literally, but it's pretty dead now.

It has been years and years that I've had that computer though, so

I feel like it's time for an upgrade. I would have preferred it not tonight but..

Today I decided to, instead, make a little bit more of a simple, sit-down, talk video because that's one that I can edit more  quickly,

because now I have to borrow my boyfriend's laptop! But yeah,

today's topic is work in Japan and what kinds of jobs I know that people have here.

Obviously there's all kinds of jobs, but I kind of just want to go through, like, the most

common kinds of jobs for foreigners in Japan. I'm also going to be talking about my job in Japan.

student, like my main thing here in Japan has always been to study, but on a student visa you can get permission to work.

So I now work part-time after school. No, my job is not being a youtuber. I do not make enough money...hehehe

Please turn off adblock. But yeah, let's get into it.

I want to talk about the first job that I had when I came to Japan, and it's probably the easiest one,

if you are someone who is from an English-speaking country,

or you're someone who is very very good at English, in particular if you can't speak Japanese and that is private English tutoring.

Ooh, how do you feel about my shoulders being out? I don't know I feel weird about it..

Basically, what it tends to be is, you put up your profile, being like “Hey,

I can teach English.” And then people reach out to you to be like, “Hey,

I want to learn English from you.” And then you meet up, and then you usually have like an hour,

but it depends on how much the student wants, and like how long you're available.

so it's usually for people who want to practice conversation.

So you don't actually need any experience. You actually just have to be able to speak English.

I would usually just prepare, like, a list of questions that I can ask someone for the trial lesson.

Usually you would have a trial lesson that is cheaper than your regular lesson,

But honestly you do a lot of trial lessons, DO NOT DO THEM FOR FREE! Ohhh my god, wait

my first lesson was actually a trial lesson that I did for free and it was SO WEIRD, because I thought like, “Oh

it's a trial lesson I'll do it for free.” DONT DO IT FOR FREE! It was just this guy and the whole time

he was like obsessing over this idol girl

That he like, really loved and like he would go see her all the time. And he's like, this really like, old dude and I'm just like..

And then at the end of the lesson, he gave me a stack of idol CDs'

instead of payments, because my trial lesson was free. I don't know, he gave me really weird vibes.

And like not getting on my train coz I was like, I don't want this guy to know where I live.

It was just so weird receiving like a stack of Idol CDs as payment like, charge for trial lessons!

But honestly to give you the full tea on that job, like honestly, I didn't like it,

It was mostly just like businessmen and like, I don't know like, I guess they just wanted to hang out with me?

Like, I never felt that comfortable doing it.

I always met them in really, really public places and I never met them at like my home-

I did meet them at my home station! Oh my gosh, don't do that. You shouldn't do that.

Make sure you do not go to their house. Make sure they do not go to your house. That's really, really important.

There's actually a famous case of an English teacher who was killed...

But as long as you meet in like, I don't know, Shinjuku station,

and then like, you go to like, a café near the station or something, you should be fine.

But it's also..I don't know..it can be dangerous. Do you know what I mean?

Usually you would meet in a cafe and you would just have like, have a one-on-one conversation and that was basically the job,

but the thing about it is, it was really hard to predict how much money you were gonna be making, because if you have like

a normal job, then you can just count like how many hours you're doing this month,

"Oh, that's how much I'm gonna be payed.”  Do you know what I mean?

But if you are someone who does something like this, where it's like a case-by-case basis,

then you don't know how much money you're gonna have and it really stresses me out because I'm a planner. I like to really plan

things out, which is why I'm really unhappy having to buy a new laptop, because mine broke. THEY WERE GONNA CHARGE ME

$200 TO FIX IT. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT $200 TO FIX THIS...

I am that kind of person who likes to know how much money I'm gonna be making, before I spend money.

Do you know what I mean? I remember there was actually a time, around December last year, when I was not getting any students...

The point is, it's really easy job to have, if you don't speak any Japanese

I know you can also do it if you speak other languages, but I don't really think there's as high of a demand,

But definitely like, I have a friend who does it with Italian, and things like that.

There's  definitely some people so it's definitely worth like just checking out, and seeing if it's something you can do.

Like, if you're not an English speaker. I used to recommend hellosensei.com for it, but now I actually recommend Flamingo, it's like an app.

Flamingo is because if you use Flamingo like there are so many times where the student just cancels last minute and if they're through

HelloSensei, there's nowhere for you to get the money and

you've just wasted your time, but with Flamingo if they cancel within a certain period of time,

(I don't remember what it was) then you still get the money, which I think is really important because there were actually so many

times where I was so glad for that because like I would just go to the station and I would just be waiting there,

But if a student cancelled on Flamingo you'd be like “Sweet, I get to go home. I still get the money.

I recommend Flamingo. But the main positive point about private tutoring is:

A) You don't have to actually speak any  Japanese for it,

so it's really good for when you first come to Japan and

B) It's completely flexible around your schedule,

as long as there are actually students who are willing to come to you at those times.

Let's move on. The main kind of job that I see people doing when they get to like an N3 level is like, normal

jobs that you would do in like, pretty much any country. So working in shops, or like working in restaurants and things like that.

They're perfectly doable jobs. The pay is not great..

I would say the average pay for those kinds of jobs is around 1000 yen an hour,

Which I honestly don't really feel like it's a lot when you live in Tokyo..

level before you're able to get these jobs at least, because obviously if you're doing these jobs you have to actually be able to converse

with customers and stuff. You can get some pretty interesting jobs. For example, my friend Julia worked in the

Liz Lisa in Harajuku before it shut down and now she works in the Liz Lisa in Shibuya, and obviously she's really liked the brand Liz Lisa

for a really long time, so she really loves the job.

So there's a lot of opportunities for jobs like that.