#altinsider

Japan is an amazing place to live, full of history, culture, and cuisine. It's so amazing, in fact, that thousands of people who wouldn't otherwise choose a teaching career become English teachers, simply to get a more complete experience of the country.

I was in this camp myself, teaching English for years, even though I was never really a teacher at heart. However, using the methods outlined in this guide, I found a non-teaching job in japan and now earn an income doing something more in line with my strengths: helping people have more fun working in Japan with ALT Insider and helping people get hired at ALT Insider Resume Review.

The following guide is for those of you in the same boat I was: enjoying your English teaching job to a degree, but only doing it as a means to keep living in Japan. If you see teaching as a stepping stone rather than a career, it may be time to start working on a new path.

Check out new post by James from ALT Insider, about Japanese TV. We swear, it's not all bad.

“It sucks.” When talking to any foreigner in Japan about Japanese TV, you’ll usually hear those two words a lot. And while I’m not here to tell you that Japanese TV is awesome or that filling huge blocks of your time in Japan with daytime dramas is a good thing to do, what I am going to tell you that it’s not as bad as people say. While it may be “cool” to say that Japanese TV is stupid, the…