I look like who????

The other day I was heading home on my bicycle. While passing an elementary school a little kid yelled, "Hey, it's Michael Jackson!" I honestly couldn't believe my ears. I felt like I was being called a pedophile and ugly at the same time. LOL! Japanese people are so backwards sometimes. Anybody that is white with brown hair looks like Tom Cruise. I've been told that I look like Tom Cruise many times. Anyone who is black is called Obama. While I admit that if a student of mine isn't wearing their uniform in public then I can't recognize them. However, I don't go around calling every Japanese girl I see Lucy Lu. Lucy Lu isn't even Chinese just imagine how insulting that could be. My beef isn't with the kid because let's face it kids can't comprehend stereotypes. It's the adults that get me all the time. For a first world country I really feel like Japan is behind in acceptance of other races and cultures. 

Brain Storming

I need to stop sitting on my hands and wait for an opportunity for a translation job to come. I've been brain storming and I decided to try and contact some companies directly through e-mail. Hopefully, I can attract their attention with my desire for such a job. If not I really hope they take the time and try to answer my questions seriously.

Does anyone else have any other ideas? Hopefully, we can get this brain storm going.

Job Hunting in Japan

I had my first interviews in Japan last week. Unfortunately, they were in English with a couple of white guys. LOL. Not really a curse but not a blessing. I wanted to experience a Japanese interview. Oh well, I guess it couldn't be helped. The interviews went rather well I think. Both companies wanted to hire me. They were really impressed that I passed the Japanese Level 2 Language Test within two years. I guess it's rather rare for someone to do that. However, being an executive recruiter just didn't appeal to me. One of the major flaws of the job is I don't really get to use Japanese in the job. Defeats the purpose of me looking for a new job. Second, I'm not good at coercing people into doing something they don't want to do. Japanese executives just do not want to change jobs. In Japan people especially executives are die hard loyal to their company. It takes more than money to get these guys to switch jobs.

The pay sounds good if I'm willing to kill myself to make a sell. If I was in Japan for the money I would take this job, but I'm looking for the job that pays well but at the end of the day I'm happy. I know it's like hunting for a unicorn, but my dream seems very possible. I have to be a little more patient.

(For those wondering, I want to be a translator for a video game company.)