Hello, I've been thinking about moving to Japan in a couple years from now, at least I'd like to try it.
First of all, I'm not an english native; while I can understand it perfectly, I just suck at writing and speaking. I speak spanish but I'm not even from Spain, so I think the language teacher path is out of discussion for me
With this in mind, I've been focusing on learning japanese, finishing my degree and working to get experience on the IT field, specifically, I'm a junior MLE for a startup, with 1 year of experience.
I'm a bit worried about what steps should I take from now on, because I really don't want to screw it up.
I'll be turning 26 in Jan, and i'm getting my degree by the end of 2025. I expect to have 15k USD on savings by then. My japanese is not good, not even conversational. But I'm studying every day a lot of hours, so I hope that by 2026 I'd at least achieve N4, or N3 if possible. My problem with my current method is that I don't do any output, just when I read outloud, this is not going to be useful when looking for jobs.
Now, I've been looking some job offers here and there, and I see that a lot of them ask for "Business Japanese", so maybe I should focus more on that instead of JLPT, I'm not really sure.
Other concern I have is that I'm not sure If I should go first for a WHV, or to enroll in a language school. I intend to do both of them if I fail to land a job at first, I'm just not sure in which order should I do it. On one hand, If I do the WHV first, I can keep my current remote job, so I'd not spent too much of my savings, but in the other hand, going to a language school first will incease my proficiency in the language, and that could increase my chances of finding a job later if I have to apply for the WHV, but the school costs a lot of money, and maybe I won't even be able to do the WHV after that. There's also the fact that, in my country, the limit for WHV is 30 y.o.
I'd appreciare any comment/opinion/suggestion.
Thanks for reading
by Der_Spieler