Since I was young it was my dream to live in Japan at least for 6 months. This year I started learning Japanese, so far going steadily through first genki + have lessons with italki japanese tutor twice a month.
I’m 24 I have bachelors in contemporary communciations and have experience of 3 years as marketing specialist, social media manager and 2 years as journalist.
I have urge to drop my current job and go to Japan through worldpackers, as volunteer. I naively assume that along the way I will find work and clients which I can help with regarding social media pressence, websites and so on.
Of course, I will get working holiday visa, but this visa is once for a lifetime, so main setback is that I will waste this opportunity on my pursuits for life in Japan.
Why Japan?
• Interested in Japanese culture for 10 years \[I would love to see traditional architecture, rakugo, kabuki and engage with traditional arts, maybe even learn one of traditional crafts!\]
• I feel it in my soul pull towards it and as I’m getting older it will be harder to justify my adventures to recruiters once.
• Nature! I want to heard cicada’s in summer, that sound always felt melanholic. Seeing spider lilies in the evening would be great too.
• It has incorporate shinto with modern way of life. As Lithuanian I would love to see how various traditional festivals are organized, how they feel and how I perhaps bring it back to my own country (we also had historical paganism that some beliefs are used in casual way).
So far I have 1200 euros in savings (my current salary is 833 euros after taxes, so I can save up more till March).
How much should I save up more and how likely is my plan? Volunteering > Finding clients work.
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**Moving to Japan as marketing specialist**
Since I was young it was my dream to live in Japan at least for 6 months. This year I started learning Japanese, so far going steadily through first genki + have lessons with italki japanese tutor twice a month.
I’m 24 I have bachelors in contemporary communciations and have experience of 3 years as marketing specialist, social media manager and 2 years as journalist.
I have urge to drop my current job and go to Japan through worldpackers, as volunteer. I naively assume that along the way I will find work and clients which I can help with regarding social media pressence, websites and so on.
Of course, I will get working holiday visa, but this visa is once for a lifetime, so main setback is that I will waste this opportunity on my pursuits for life in Japan.
Why Japan?
• Interested in Japanese culture for 10 years [I would love to see traditional architecture, rakugo, kabuki and engage with traditional arts, maybe even learn one of traditional crafts!]
• I feel it in my soul pull towards it and as I’m getting older it will be harder to justify my adventures to recruiters once.
• Nature! I want to heard cicada’s in summer, that sound always felt melanholic. Seeing spider lilies in the evening would be great too.
• It has incorporate shinto with modern way of life. As Lithuanian I would love to see how various traditional festivals are organized, how they feel and how I perhaps bring it back to my own country (we also had historical paganism that some beliefs are used in casual way).
So far I have 1200 euros in savings (my current salary is 833 euros after taxes, so I can save up more till March).
How much should I save up more and how likely is my plan? Volunteering > Finding clients work.
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You are young, if you want to do Working Holiday just go for it. I think you need more than 1200 euro in saving though, check the required amount on your embassy website. Most people who do working holiday tend to work in hospitality (restaurant, hotel) or konbini, I can’t imagine that there is a lot of marketing work that you could do on a working holiday visa. If you want to stay in Japan and work in marketing long-term, start learning Japanese yesterday.
Without near native Japanese, it will be extremely difficult for you to find a marketing position on such a short basis. You will also need a hell of a lot more than 1200 just for moving costs alone.
>I naively assume that along the way I will find work and clients which I can help with regarding social media pressence, websites and so on.
That’d be illegal if you are here to volunteer.
>but this visa is once for a lifetime, so main setback is that I will waste this opportunity on my pursuits for life in Japan.
You can only get it until you’re 30 or something anyways, so better to use it now. If you mean that you’d want to look at other countries: That’s not a problem at all. You can go to Japan, New Zealand, Canada and wherever else you are eligible for if you fulfill all requirements.
Just come over on Working Holiday and knock yourself out?
After living here for so long, cicadas don’t sound melancholic at all. That time of year if I’m outside that means I’m dripping with sweat and all I can think about is getting inside an air conditioned room.
There are case studies on how different marketing is in Japan. If you didn’t grow up here **and** don’t speak perfect Japanese, your chances of working in marketing are near zero.