• tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    We were very different ages in 2013, I think, heh. I got laid off from a job, sacrificed basically everything to try life in another country, failed to get a job and visa in time, and later wrapped it up by breaking my leg and ankle rather badly.

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      5 months ago

      Man, this post started off so well. The first line on my phone is “We were very different ages in 2013, I think, heh. I got laid” but things took a sharp turn starting on the next line.

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      5 months ago

      Breaking a leg is supposed to be good luck though so I’m sure everything turned out fine, right?

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        Well, aside from the fact that I can’t run and sometimes simply walking is painful, I suppose it generally worked out well.

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        5 months ago

        USA and Japan. I had a company willing to sponser a visa, but they’d never done it before and it would take time. My stay was about up and I didn’t have the funds to vacation somewhere else and then come back to maybe get a job and visa. I would move back to Japan in late 2015 after recovering both physically (I spent 6 months+ in a wheelchair and another 6+ months on crutches before finally transitioning to varying levels of cane use for another roughly 6 months) and recovering financially. I’ve been in Japan since.

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          5 months ago

          That sounds like you did a good job on your leg.

          Least you made it there. How you like it? How many hours a week you work? Made any friends with 100% Japanese people?

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            Just like anywhere, it has good and bad points. Almost all of my friends are japanese as is my wife. I work 40 hours with some overtime here and there, but basically the same as the US (I’m a software engineer). I recently bought a farm and we live in the countryside so I’m trying to get all that sorted as well

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              Sounds good. I just heard bad things about the work hours and such.

              Would love yo go to the country though!

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                Totally depends upon the company and its management. There is legislation in place to try to prevent things, but some workers will clock out and illegally continue working due to pressure which just perpetuates that shit cycle.