Hello all,
Im (24m) graduating college soon with a bachelors and am looking to get a TEFL certification so I can teach English overseas. My plan is to take yearly contracts being an ESL teacher somewhere in Japan. As a prospective TEFL certification holder and native English speaker, securing a job would be the least of my worries once the program is complete.
It’s always been a dream of mine to live in Japan and I’ve traveled to foreign countries frequently throughout college and high school for both tourism and volunteer work. I enjoy learning about new cultures and immersing myself as best as I can within a new world. I currently coach youth esports and enjoy working with kids but I’m extremely nervous and scared about moving so far away from family to live my life.
I don’t know Japanese enough to have any conversations and I’m worried about the conversion rate of money being what it is. Working there provides a decent wage for Japan, but yearly is only about 24k USD. The other option of working in South Korea has an even worse conversion rate to USD. To leave my home and all my family behind to work and live in a foreign country is what I want to do but I’m afraid I either won’t know how to survive or will simple panic too much to function. Im not too worried about my lack of knowledge with the language, as I plan on taking night classes in Japanese if I do go.
I’m hoping by posting this people can tell me a little bit about living in Japan and if it’s really worth upending my life to follow a dream that may bite me in the ass later on. Hopefully there are some perspectives from all sorts of people!
by AnimatedRealityTV1