I am having trouble deciding between these two options. More relevant details:
\- 25M Canadian Citizen
\- New grad with 1 internship that lasted 2 years (devops)
\- Graduating in June with Bachelors of Computer Science
\- Lived abroad in Osaka for \~6 months(uni exchange), can hold decently well a jp conversation \~N3
\- Currently living with parents, so little/no expenses
\- Somewhat regard Canada with disdain, especially the awful winters (particularly awful for my psoriasis), and the amount of immigration we’d had making it extremely hard to find a job here, housing market, inflation,etc.
I have two options presented to me :
1.
\- Stay in Canada and get my 70k/year gov IT job (stable, with little/no chance of being laid off)
\- Lower amount of time that can be spent on learning Japanese
\- desire to leave Canada for a while
2.
\- Head to Japan for a tech company, with 5 mil yen/year salary, and 2 months probation period
\- Greatly improve Japanese quickly, better food, transport, all the benefits(and issues) of japan
\- Have some contacts that could help me out
I’m not sure if picking option 2 would be worse for my career, but I’m already 25 and I’ve wanted to move for a while now, so I am leaning towards option 2. The Japanese company has a 2 months probation period and the salary is on the low side so I’m wondering how if that could transition into a higher salary down the line, or I’ll be stuck in the 5\~ end range.
My goal for the future is to settle in Japan.
What do you guys think, am I being reasonable if I pick #2?
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by problemo04