Assuming job is required, the following 39 results were found.
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After getting laid-off from my IT job in the summer of 2009, I decided to sign up at Inagawa Motoko Office (aka "IMO") hoping to at least make some money while searching for a new IT job. The full-time job market was in shambles at that time due to the...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Show Biz
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Alpha Management Like many of the agencies on this list, Alpha is one of those where I registered and started receiving job offers and audition opportunities; however, I never landed any actual paid work. Even though I would reply immediately to their...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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fast. It’s not that you can’t live inexpensively in Japan; it’s just that you don’t know how to do it yet, and you Need. A. Job. Now. Ask anyone that has lived in Asia, not just Japan, and they will tell you the fastest, easiest way to get a job as an...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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English speaker, I always thought the best way to try out life in Japan would be to teach English for a year, but a full-time job gives most teachers little time to study the language, which can lead to missing out on myriad rewarding experiences. While...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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their tensions away. Time to Move On I told AEON that I'm not going to renew my contract, so I've started looking for a new job. My contract ends in February, but I definitely want to remain in Japan. Tottori is very nice, but I'm hoping to find...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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world. As a university student, I ran a one-man PC repair/tutoring business that paid much better than any typical college job. One referral led to another, and I was able to land an IT job after graduation. The enterprise-level IT experience really...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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guest" again. I turned it down and gave up on that avenue. Have you been auditioning for commercials out there? I have a good job in IT that I like, so I haven't deeply explored the "working actor" avenue. I did try being an extra for a day, but left...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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She followed the question with a shocking bit of previously unknown information. My brother supposedly worked a part-time job at a used video game store in the Bay Area. He often sold me used video games and systems with his employee discount. It was...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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minus the wild frat parties down the street and obnoxious roommate. Around the time I was leaving my English teaching job in Tottori, I signed up for a 3-month contract with Leopalace. They're nationwide, so the local Tottori office found me a place in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Why Linux is Coolhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10147-why-linux-is-cool
reading this article on a Linux-powered netbook. It Proves You Really Know Computers Although my capacity at my previous IT job was essentially limited to the Wintel world, I sat next to and befriended the resident Unix engineer. "This guy REALLY knows...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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PRE-REQUISITIES - Rclone plugin - User Scripts plugin (if you want to schedule the jobs) SETUP RCLONE Rclone is surprisingly easy to use, as it's very similar to Rsync. The major difference is the initial configuration, as you have to register the...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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PRE-REQUISITES - Rsync plugin - User Scripts plugin (if you want to schedule the jobs) - Unassigned Devices plugin RSYNC TO UNASSIGNED BACKUP DRIVE I often configure rsync jobs to backup critical data to an unassigned drive outside the array. My...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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This is a video letter to Nissan (the car company) concerning the Carlos Ghosn scandal and your presumed hunt for a new CEO. Please consider me *David Problema* as a strong candidate for the open Nissan CEO position.
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Videos
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36 - Overtime in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10379:36-overtime-in-japan&catid=52
Japanese people are known for doing crazy amounts of overtime work, so much so that some have literally dropped dead. There's no way you're going to get American me to work such hours, so what's up with all the overtime in Japan?
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Podcast
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Several years ago I enrolled in Sumida Hospital's clinical trials program, participating in one of their paid clinical trials. Despite the commitment, I found it a rewarding experience both in monetary value and blog-worthiness. I described the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
process. It proved a far better use of our time. My colleague stated it best: "IT management is just trying to save their own jobs." By miraculously finding, contracting with, and "managing the relationship" with an outsourcing company, IT management...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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that will easily deliver about 1,440 hours of travel time at about ten pounds each outing. (How does one go about finding a job writing math word problems? Never mind, I don’t want the future generation to hate me when I’m in a retirement home.) Not to...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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could be deep-seated merit to this expression, though. Without any room for misinterpretation, it certainly gets the refusal job done quickly and forcefully--like ripping off a bandage. After consulting with some native Japanese friends via Facebook, I...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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the price. - Very generous feature-set - Google support was responsive and unusually neighborly. - Gmail does a pretty decent job at blocking spam. BAD - I felt overwhelmed when first opening the admin console and seeing that I had been opted-into 68...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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Wait...is that his hand down- what?!? Oh, shit. This is real life. Being half asleep coming back from an exhausting job in Shibuya and on my way to a photoshoot, I wasn’t sure if this was me being half-delusional on behalf of lack of sleep or...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General