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vallillo1983 · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 194

can I ask, why work as an ALT if most jobs like interac or RCS offer no or little pay during the holidays?! I heard that it's hard to get work during the summer and winter breaks so how do you survive?

Thanks

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: why be an ALT

Squire22 · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 68 Location: Shizuoka, Japan

Because not all ALT gigs are like Interac or RCS, some do actually pay throughout the vacation periods. One of the reasons I'm an ALT, great vacation time, fully paid, consequently easy for me to survive.

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

I'd quite happily take school holidays unpaid over working all year round at an eikawa. It would certainly mean you could see more of Japan than the inside of some pokey little classroom.

Alberta605 · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 94 Location: Japan

I was an ALT on the JET program about a decade ago. Experiences differ but from my own experience of JET being an ALT was one long overpaid vacation with long periods of complete inactivity from time to time. Possibly the easiest thing I've ever done in my life.

I have heard that Berlitz has approached the Japanese government to supply ALT's to state schools here.

Should Berlitz get that contract at least the JET ALT will no longer be wearing the borrowed and completely misleading robes of a government employee.

ripslyme · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 481 Location: Japan

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Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

A dispatcher I was with offered 300,000 a month (X12) for ALT work. When your school had no classes you were asked to come to the office and create teaching materials.
Thing is, I saw a restaurant job offering more than that. Am I missing something?

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Yeah.

As a foreigner, what do you think your chances at that restaurant job are?

c-way · Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 226 Location: Kyoto, Japan

You might want to also break that restaurant job v. ALT job down to an hourly rate and see how it measures up.

And was that job an unskilled worker position, management, or experienced cook. It seems a little high for unskilled work.

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Carmine Co., Ltd.
Assistant Chef
JPY 200,000 - 350,000/Month, Various Areas, Tokyo

Hall Staff
JPY 250,000 - 350,000/Month, Various Areas, Tokyo

Go figure.

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Yeah. We have that kind of thing in Toronto, too. You need appropriate college qualifications for that type of job. Waiters/Hall staff in high end restaurants have often spent a number of years learning their trade (an aspeact of Hospitality, as in the Hospitality/Tourism major at community colleges).

I'm assuming this place isn't really on the same level as Denny's, because places like that pay per hour and are aabaito no shigoto desu ne.

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Who knows? I'm checking it out though. Checking out the Ritz, too.
You all have a ripping weekend.
Enjoy,
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