For people who very specifically went from English teacher, to international sales (although this can be any boring office job in a Japanese company, what did you do next?
I’ve been here for a long time and started as an English teacher and now I’ve been in sales for 3 years. I have NO idea where I’m going next. It feels like my only options are either trying to find another sales job in a bigger company or quit and actually do what I’m interested in and earn peanuts, which is cooking.
Teacher – standard office work – ???
What did you do?
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Do you have any marketable skills/demonstrable experience from your career back in your home country? If yes, get your Japanese up to N2 and then try to get back into that career here.
If no, then making the leap to doing what you’re actually passionate about will never be easier to pull off than right now. If you don’t have any financial commitments/visa restrictions holding you down, rolling the dice on a career change only ever gets harder the older you get.
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Account management, Marketing or customer service
I became a recruiter for a foreign company. Much more fun
Just my 2 cents but it seems you’re a dude who can hold your conversation in both English and Japanese. Why don’t you keep being sales (or customer account manager, same stuff) but in a gaishi? I know a few on top of my head who can be a good fit.
Consider being in sales for a company which sells cooking supplies, or packaged goods? Then you’d be doing sales but its tangentially related to your interests. You may also make connections in the industry for your next move after.
Business development consultant is basically sales. Look into it