H O W T O S U R V I V E A N D T H R I V E A S A N E N G I N E E R I N A F O R E I G N L A N D ࢲ Կ ʹ ͯ͠ ҟ ࠃ Ͱ Τ ϯ δχ Ξ ͱ ͯ͠ ੜ ͖ ൈ ͍ͯ ͖ ͨ ͔ O E D O R U B Y K A I G I 0 4 L E O N A R D C H I N a k a ϨΦ
H O W T O S U R V I V E A N D T H R I V E A S A N E N G I N E E R I N A F O R E I G N L A N D ࢲ Կ ʹ ͯ͠ ҟ ࠃ Ͱ Τ ϯ δχ Ξ ͱ ͯ͠ ੜ ͖ ൈ ͍ͯ ͖ ͨ ͔ O E D O R U B Y K A I G I 0 4 L E O N A R D C H I N a k a ϨΦ
W H AT D I D N ’ T W O R K • Just living in Japan (but it helps) • Dating a Japanese person (but it helps!) • Marrying a Japanese person (this helps too!) • Hanging around with friends in your own language
✔ Helps you set goals and learn with structure ✗ Just a piece of paper. Not really valued ✗ Content is often not practical I T O O K A F E W T E S T S T O O
✔ Expect multilinguals ✔ Less competition? ✗ Small job pool ✗ Few truly local companies J O B S I T E S F O R F O R E I G N E R S E X I S T ( J O B 1 ! )
✔ Huge pool of openings ✔ Local companies ✗ Don’t expect foreigners ✗ Difficult to navigate J O B S I T E S TA R G E T I N G N A T I V E S C A N B E B E T T E R ( J O B 2 ! )
C U LT U R E ? • What does that crazy slang mean? • What jokes are funny? • Where does that image/reference come from? • What do engineers like to talk about?
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