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ShioriEigoKyoushi
Joined: 21 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:14 pm Post subject: Kuni e kaerimasu ("going home") |
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Dear cafe dwellers,
At the end of June my contract will complete and I'll be moving back to the UK. Thank you for all the helpful responses, information and support I've received on this forum while working here in Japan. It's been incredibly helpful. I hope the situation out here with regards to opportunities and the enforcement of Japan's own employment laws improves for everyone's sake.
Best of luck for the future,
Shiori |
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Mr_Monkey
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| That seemed quick - how long have you been in Japan again? One year? |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Shiori,
There's no reason to delete the content from your earlier posts. Why do that? |
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Mr_Monkey
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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^ WHS.
Very odd. |
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OneJoelFifty
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I was hoping we'd marry in Japan. Guess it makes more sense to go back to the UK though, easier for families and stuff. Okay. |
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TokyoLiz
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:08 am Post subject: Kikoku - return home |
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Eeeeeh?! You deleted all your contributions to the forum?
Be safe and best of luck on your return. |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi
Joined: 21 Aug 2009
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| Glenski wrote: |
Shiori,
There's no reason to delete the content from your earlier posts. Why do that? |
If you look at the earlier ones you'll see I've been going back and deleting content for some time. If you'd put them together there was information about my location, employment details, professional history and workplace experiences, which I'd felt comfortable sharing for specific posts but haven't wanted to leave public indefinitely. Those who had asked questions or sought information read the answers a long time ago.
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| Be safe and best of luck on your return. |
Thank you Liz, all the best for the future here in Japan!
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| I was hoping we'd marry in Japan. Guess it makes more sense to go back to the UK though, easier for families and stuff. Okay. |
I knew you'd see it that way, see you in a while 
Shiori |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| ShioriEigoKyoushi wrote: |
| Glenski wrote: |
Shiori,
There's no reason to delete the content from your earlier posts. Why do that? |
If you look at the earlier ones you'll see I've been going back and deleting content for some time. If you'd put them together there was information about my location, employment details, professional history and workplace experiences, which I'd felt comfortable sharing for specific posts but haven't wanted to leave public indefinitely. Those who had asked questions or sought information read the answers a long time ago. |
That's entirely your prerogative, of course, but I think your last statement here pretty much says nobody is going to use the info to track you down or anything. I think your workplace experiences deserved to stay, but whatever.
Best of luck. |
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starteacher
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| I genuinely feel you try very hard in what you do to better yourself, and I hope you continue with this back home, good luck. |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi
Joined: 21 Aug 2009
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you Starteacher, I really appreciate your comment. And thanks too Glenski for wishing me well! |
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fluffyhamster
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if it makes you feel any better Shiori, just let me say that you won't be the first or last person nowadays having to leave Japan and return home - I also called it quits (but a few years back, in 2007 IIRC) and am back in Blighty for the foreseeable future.
And though I miss the thunder of Japanese trains and traffic, the eye-pulsating fizz of the neon there, and the low tobacco taxes that enabled me to try cigar-smoking myself to death, etc etc etc, at least I can now again enjoy the sight of richer folks still enjoying their pub lunches, strawberries and cream, Wimbledon etc whilst I am out and about contemplating whatever (signing on, stuffing real chips, happy-slapping foreign students good n' proper with a copy of Swan, etc etc etc).
But seriously, I think to have stood much of a long-term chance (to save money, recoup initial outlays etc), we'd both have had to arrive in Japan by the early-to-mid nineties at the latest, and most people I know who really "made it" in Japan and stayed (or moved elsewhere with substantial savings) had arrived even earlier than that! In my case though I really should've saved a lot more during 3 years on JET. (Still, I got a nice load of books and reading done from it!).
Anyway, I'd like to echo Starteacher by saying that you really don't seem a bad egg, and I also wish you all the best for the future! |
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gaijinalways
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:46 am Post subject: |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi,
Best wishes, and good luck with the transition to living in the UK again.
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| But seriously, I think to have stood much of a long-term chance (to save money, recoup initial outlays etc), we'd both have had to arrive in Japan by the early-to-mid nineties at the latest, and most people I know who really "made it" in Japan and stayed (or moved elsewhere with substantial savings) had arrived even earlier than that! In my case though I really should've saved a lot more during 3 years on JET. (Still, I got a nice load of books and reading done from it!). |
Hard to say Fluffy, some people seem to make good contacts (or had good contacts before arriving) in a short time and can do pretty well. Some of them do have the right personality for Japan; a bit thick skinned, willing to endure lots of drinking while socializing, and always appear non-threatening, and possess legendary amounts of patience for mind numbing bullshit while waiting for opportunities to advance. Of course, some of these attributes will serve you well outside of Japan, but some of them are more useful here.
I am doing okay now, but I did arrive in the late '90s and defintitely know some people who stumbed into some fantastic posts by being around at the right time. Most of these people did come earlier in the go-go 80s and early 90s before the bubble burst. It took me a while, my pay has nearly tripled from what I made my first year here, and I probably could easily do that if I wanted to work longer hours (I know a few people who do, and some of them came as little as 6-8 yeas ago), but for some reason I like time to entertain myself (this forum counts for part of that, entertainment and education) and the sometime odd moments for meeting friends, etc.. |
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SweetTea
Joined: 27 May 2010
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| I've only been a member of this forum for a short time (2 months?) but your posts have been very helpful to me. I'm sorry to hear that they've been deleted but I wish you all the best. I hope you continue to post on this forum because I've learned a lot from you. |
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