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[rxk22]

If your company is being annoying, why not try privates, or do Eikaiwa classes once or twice a week?


Seriously, us lifers here need to properly save and invest. Getting old here as an English teacher can be harsh. So save your nickles. I would recommend to all who plan on staying, to open a brokerage and put in 10,000 a month into it.

[timothypfox]

What about work in a private high school? Many private junior and senior high schools these days need full-time native teachers to teach writing and English conversation. They are often solo teaching positions, so you can do more serious teaching of lessons from curriculum without so much of a dog and pony show. You won't have to answer to J colleagues as Eikaiwa will be regarded as it's own department.

[ssjup81]

[jkozera]

[nightsintodreams]

Quite simple really, Not enough foreigners have been neutralized and given the right to vote. On top of that, Japanese people don't give a s--t about the rights of anyone who's not Japanese. Sad, but it's the truth.

[RM1983]

Unfortunately this sort of rolling back of job security is going on all around. I saw an article recently that school teachers in the UK are seeing year-to-year contracts more frequently. My gf here works for a multinational company and they are down to only hiring temp staff. Zero hour contracts all over the shop.

It is everywhere, people are going to have to rethink how they build a life and security

[Maitoshi]

Actually, a lot of Japanese face the same issues as we do: limited contract work and PT status. It's partially because of the law's attempt to address this issue that almost all contract employment stipulates limited renewals or PT. When the law changed to require that full-time contracted employees must be given permanent FT status and treatment after X years, employers responded by cutting to PT and limited-term contract employment. While the intent of the law was purported to help make contract employees eligible for regular employment status, the law backfired and further screwed this group of employees by adding further insecurity to an already insecure employment situation.

[RM1983]

Sounds familiar. Ten years ago after I graduated,I walked into a job at a large internet company in the UK. All temps. The rule at the time was something like after a year you have to be taken on full time. So, the agency simply "fired" you and rehired you over the weekend. Now, like I said zero hour contracts are not uncommon.

From what I have heard, this type of malarkey is quite common here now. My gf was amongst the last to be hired full-time where she is, they have more or less halted full-time recruitment (and this is a big company). The temps are experienced and capable, but with no chance of ever joining full-time. Apparently most are female too, so most of them write it off and become full-time mothers after they've saved a bit of cash.

Not too uncommon anywhere, as far as I know.

Actually when I started teaching I thought I might luck into an easy lifetime gig but that expectation was dead long before I moved here. It is kind of telling that lack of security is such a common complaint. Those getting into ESL now probably aren't even dreaming of a job-for-life type gig. Again, we are going to have to start thinking outside the box, in this job and in many others

[ssjup81]

Still seems pointless that companies do one year contracts regardless if it's a foreigner or a Japanese. Still don't think this happens in the US unless it's an actual temporary job from the start. For part-time jobs or full-time jobs, you sign a contract once and that's it. You're stuck with that job until you're either fired, laid-off, or if you quit.

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[ssjup81]