Context: I’m a Dutch person living in Spain who speaks fluent English, has a B.A and M.A in English teaching/international communications and who has worked as an English teacher in different academies in Spain. I was always told it is impossible to become an English teacher in Japan as non-native English speaker due to VISA requirements, no matter how well you speak English.
I applied for AEON for the fuck of it because my current job gives me a lot and I mean A LOT of free time. I usually use this time to study something or, inevitably, doze off and play videogames or something.
To my complete surprise, they e-mailed me to set up an intervieuw within a few days.
Just how serious could this be, if they knew I wasn’t a native-English speaker, and I still got the e-mail for a interview? I was honestly shocked.
Here comes the day of the interview. I dress clean from the waist-up and read their website. The lady on the enter end of the Skype call seemed nice enough, and then she asked me to please stand up – in my pink pijama shorts. Major oversight. I asked if they could give me a second and changed, but with the nonsensical adrenaline and nervous-ness, I didn’t button up my blazer – standing there in my white croptop, black blazer and black jeans.
I stumble over my words and I get the presentation-jitters from when I was a highschooler. Strange, I hadn’t felt those type of painful nerves in YEARS.
After being asked to sit down, and apologizing for my nerves, the interviewers asks some things regarding the website. I quickly come to the realization that I could’ve aced this interview had I done a bit of research. Oh well.
I honestly answer that I did read the webpage multiple times but did not memorize the info as I guess they expected me to do. I did have the sense to go on the page and have it on my 2nd monitor, so it wasn’t a total fumble there.
For the rest, I got the impression that the interviewer quite liked me, but I would like a puppy with 2 broken legs too. That’s what it felt like.
Anyways, I’m somewhat over it. I took a shower and realized this isn’t the end-all be-all at all and its just another job at the end of the day.
I fully don’t expect anyone to read this far, but this happened 1.5 hours ago and I can’t believe I did this to myself.
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by BrujitaBrujita
