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D.O.S. · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: JAPAN! "MADE IT!!

Some contributers here seem to have "made it". That's great! Good work! It's the dream of many! Yeah! I'm so happy for you winners.

I'm curious. Could these people:

1. Tell us their academic backgrounds? Must be EFL M.Eds and Ph.Ds from great Western universities. Right? Japan seems so tough they must demand such credentials, right??

2. Post a photo and physical details. With all this stuff about being tall, and looking "right" and dressing "right" this must be important as you went to the top! You guys must be modelesque hunks to land those great jobs! Studs and jocks get to the top, right??? You guys must be hunks!

3. Their previous work experience. Surely Japanese employers care about an international perspective. They want teachers/professors with a great about of international teaching experience! Right? You guys have worked all around the world and have so much to add for your Japanese students! Must be! I admire that.

I'm so eager to learn more and get better qualified to have a chance at the great positions in Japan!!!!

There's some of you with so much advice. I'm so eager to learn more about your great experiences!!!

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

[quote="D.O.S."]I'm curious. Could these people:

1. Tell us their academic backgrounds? Must be EFL M.Eds and Ph.Ds from great Western universities. Right? Japan seems so tough they must demand such credentials, right??[quote]

I have an M.Ed from Temple University in japan and am enrolled in a PhD. Due to various pressures study has taken a back seat as of late.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

DOS,
Are you asking Paul and me for that info, or the people who just got jobs here?

In any case, why should people reply? Your avatar suggests that you've been in Japan at least 3 years.

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Oh, what the heck? Why not?

1. Six degrees in all, including a B.A. from USC, a B.S. from UCLA, an M.A. from SMU, and a Ph.D. from TCU (all achieved in 25 years) Also a master's degree in psychology, and can speak fluent Marubi, Papuan, and Katubi.

2.

3. Areas of Expertise: medicine; dentistry; biology; agriculture; astronomy; marine biology; botany; psychology; physics; law; zoology; chess.

Occupation(s): Professor and high school science teacher; noted Boy Scout leader (youngest Eagle Scout in Cleveland) and writer.

List of inventions: a bamboo lie detector (hooked up to a ship's horn and the radio's batteries), a coconut shell battery recharger, a bamboo telescope, a Geiger counter, jet-pack fuel, a bamboo xylophone, keptibora-berry extract to remedy double vision, an assortment of tonics, antiseptics, poisons, "spider cider" (to kill off gargantuan morning spiders) and even a batch of nitroglycerine, soap made from plant fats, shark repellent, a pedal-powered bamboo sewing machine, lead radiation suits and make-up (protection from a meteor's cosmic rays), a helium balloon, a strychnine serum, an electrode linked to to a pedal-powered generator, a washing machine, water pump and telegraph (all pedal-powered), a roulette wheel and pool table.

List of books: "Rust, the Real Red Menace," and "Fun with Ferns" (in progress)

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

Glenski you forgot the 6 years you spent at NASA preparing to ride the Space shuttle before you got bumped by Sally Ride. PhD in aeronautical physics.

He's just being modest.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Well, I wasn't going to mention it, but since you brought it up about being bumped for a position...

They DID base Doogie Howser, MD after my own personal experience and fail to acknowledge me in the credits. My lawyers are still working on that one.