Long story short, I had two English teaching jobs, but I have recently quit my main one. My remaining job is part time at a cram school on a Saturday (although I can get more days if I wanted to right now, and a full schedule at the start of February).
I am thinking that now is a great opportunity as a soon to be 29 year old, to finally take a job change seriously and get into a role in tech dealing with data (I was a double econ/math major that had taken courses in machine learning). I have done just a few things to make myself employable to Tech here, such as a N2 qualification and an AWS Software Developer Certification.
I have two distinct problems. One is that although I got a N2 qualification, my Japanese is still not good enough (especially in a Japanese-only work environment) to start off from scratch with low pay at a Japanese company willing to train anyone new for tech. The other is my lack of experience that prevents me coming in as a mid-career worker.
I want to take the next few months to take a business Japanese course, create some personal projects/help with open source/participate in Kaggle, and get additional certification (AWS Machine Learning and Data Analysis).
Sorry for the long background story, but my question is this. Right now, I believe it will be much easier to get a few months English-based remote internship abroad that might pay me and also give me experience. I am still working my part time job in Japan allowed by my visa. Am I allowed to take such a paid internship? And if so, how can I make sure that the income I receive from the internship is documented and a portion given to income tax? Also any additional life advice would be great.
Thanks for reading!
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I don’t think it’s possible. I’ve also looked at that angle, and there’s two main barriers:
1- Most only hire students.
2- They require having a valid working status in said country.
I found a few leads here and am doing some interviews, but you are literally my competition so I’ll send them your way only if I get rejected 😂
I’ve tried similar stuff (not with internships but actual jobs) and the biggest barrier for me seems to be the time zone difference to be honest. English speaking countries, other than Australia just seem to be in too different time zones, and you’ll get edged out by other candidates in better time zones, or you won’t even be considered at all because it’d be so hard to sync up (although it is possible, but it’d also be a very async and a not ideal work style). It’s possible if you’re super employable, but at that point I think it might be just as easy trying to find similar stuff locally (in English, for instance).
Your post history suggests that you may be authorised to work in US, in which case, a remote job in US would pay better, and there are literally 1000x as many positions available.