Hunting for a seishain job beneath your skill level while you pursue other venues and income in life. Any success stories?

I am quite certain freelancing is viable, but it is not yet generating a satisfying income and I have a spouse visa renewal coming up.

I no longer wish to be devoted to a 60+ hour per week job but rather than steady 9-6 job while I continue to work on freelancing after work hours.

After the pandemic, while it is true having side jobs are become increasingly common, it does not change the fact that companies generally don’t want employees to have side jobs, particularly in the same fields where your work potentially could benefit competitors.

I wish to take a cut in my earnings and downgrade to a full time job that

\- Does not explicitly prohibit a side job

\- Does not have similarities to my current field in freelancing. I also don’t care whether I like the full time job or not. I just care that the work satisfy my boss and the management, but I don’t need more than that. Imagine someone in programming who wants to teach english, for example.

I do mind that the day job is seishain, not haken and not on a contract. The hard part is

\- Interviewers generally can spot you are the wrong candidate, where you go from mid level to entry level all of the sudden, on top of a field change

\- I don’t have many vacation days to have a shot gun approach, applying to jobs all over the place and going on many interviews

Back to the example where a programmer decides to teach. While there are loads of ESL and eikaiwa jobs around, most of them are not seishain.

I’m in Tokyo and wonder if anyone has done this successfully. I know unfortunately you can’t just show up at a job interview claiming you should be fine by giving them a solid execution with your hard skills. Employers still want the whole package. They want to know you have enough passion to stay on the job for the long run, with a committed specialty, and that you care enough about achieving some sense of self actualization on the job so the company can be assured this candidate has the same goals. Downgrading for a seishain job is not common, but I suspect there must be some desperation for full time workers in some fields, like hospitality maybe.