Well, I have made a decision to go to Japan and take the Amity offer. All the jobs I've interviewed for here have been rejection after rejection...and to put it frankly, a job is better than no job so I decided to go. Plus I'll be able to gain more experience with my Japanese so I guess that's a plus. Being by myself will be a challenge but hopefully I'll be able to get myself busy and disciplined enough to save money and not go crazy. The offer is only for a year but I can extend it if given the opportunity to do so. Right now I'm just thinking about getting through the year and if I feel I can handle another year, then I'll stay for one more year before heading back to the US.
What's kind of scary for me though is coming back and trying to find a job over here again. I have had horrible luck thus far trying to find a job in the US and after I teach in Japan for one or two years...what am I going to do with my loan payments and everything else when I come back and don't have a job...I don't have money to go to graduate school...even though I know I need more training to become a translator like I want but the only thing I can do now is learn through work experience. However, most jobs don't want inexperienced people but people that actually know what they're doing ...so I'm kind of in a bind. Right now I'm just thinking about surviving the year and getting settled in to life in Japan but I can't help but think about what I'm going to do afterwards.
Maybe another one of my new years resolutions should be to pass the MVA drivers test and get my license before I go to Japan in March. Even though I know when I get back I won't have had enough driving experience to commute on my own...at least it'll be a little step to becoming more independent. In the meantime, I guess I have enough time to figure what I'm going to do when I get back to the states...plus in the time that I'm gone my dad might move to PA and have a different job so I might have to move out on my own and try to find a job that can sustain me and the loans I'm paying. Ah! Thinking about the future always makes my head hurt =(
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