I'm considering studying at a language school in Japan but I'm not sure if it would be a good idea in my situation. For background, I graduated college with a degree in Japanese but I am in no way fluent and have never been to Japan (tbh, Japanese was not my intended major–I quit my original major junior year and Japanese was the only thing I had enough credits in to graduate reasonably on time). At one point, I was probably around a N2 level, but my kanji was terrible as my last few semesters were during Covid and I used the Rikaikun extension on all my tests. That was three years ago and I've barely practiced Japanese since then, although I have a good memory and I feel like I could get back into everything except kanji fairly easily.
My current job is low paying with no opportunity for advancement, so I'm looking at other options. One option would be to study at a language school in Japan for a few months, then move to the West coast and get a job at a Japanese company. The thing is, I would probably only go to the school for three months, and I don't think I could hope for much other than getting back to an N2 level in that time. But are there really that many jobs out there for N2 level speakers? I would love to go to Japan just for the experience of it, but if it's not going to help me start a career I'd rather save the money to go to grad school in an unrelated field (probably an MBA. ugh).
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