For those of you who have found success teaching in a field outside of English, what has your journey looked like? And what experiences or certifications have been the biggest help in landing you the position you’re currently in?
Watching some unrelated teaching channels on youtube, they seem to move to japan as teachers running away from a bad life, start a business and have a girlfriend scam them out of it, and then they build some entrepreneur stuff or just invested in bitcoin while it was in its early stages. For the average person, I highly doubt there will be good success rates for going down those routes.
All the K-12 international school teachers I know, about a dozen, came over with licenses, teachable subjects, and some with MA Ed. or their subjects.
The two private high school subject teachers I know have MA TESOL plus MA in the subjects they teach.
I don’t even work in education anymore. I’m working in a warehouse to increase my japanese skill.
I absolutely hate office jobs so ill probably continue working physical jobs . Pays not bad and I get a good workout!
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I came to Japan as an Eikaiwa teacher 22 years ago (with GEOS, anyone remember them?) just after graduating from university. Now I’m an associate professor at a major national university teaching in a field unrelated to English language.
Basically my journey between these two jobs involved almost a decade of post-graduate education after leaving Eikaiwa in the early 2000s. I have four degrees now, including a PHD. I’m not sure if it was worth it as just the first two degrees would have set me up for a decent and potentially lucrative career back home, but I can’t complain really.
Anyway, further education is probably the best bet. Kind of obvious really.
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Watching some unrelated teaching channels on youtube, they seem to move to japan as teachers running away from a bad life, start a business and have a girlfriend scam them out of it, and then they build some entrepreneur stuff or just invested in bitcoin while it was in its early stages. For the average person, I highly doubt there will be good success rates for going down those routes.
All the K-12 international school teachers I know, about a dozen, came over with licenses, teachable subjects, and some with MA Ed. or their subjects.
The two private high school subject teachers I know have MA TESOL plus MA in the subjects they teach.
I don’t even work in education anymore. I’m working in a warehouse to increase my japanese skill.
I absolutely hate office jobs so ill probably continue working physical jobs . Pays not bad and I get a good workout!
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I came to Japan as an Eikaiwa teacher 22 years ago (with GEOS, anyone remember them?) just after graduating from university. Now I’m an associate professor at a major national university teaching in a field unrelated to English language.
Basically my journey between these two jobs involved almost a decade of post-graduate education after leaving Eikaiwa in the early 2000s. I have four degrees now, including a PHD. I’m not sure if it was worth it as just the first two degrees would have set me up for a decent and potentially lucrative career back home, but I can’t complain really.
Anyway, further education is probably the best bet. Kind of obvious really.