I want to “take it easy” and don’t mind working in a numb teaching job and just supporting a teacher, if needed. I hear Jet program pays well but may put you in weird places. Is that how the program generally works?!
by AppropriateClue7624
I want to “take it easy” and don’t mind working in a numb teaching job and just supporting a teacher, if needed. I hear Jet program pays well but may put you in weird places. Is that how the program generally works?!
by AppropriateClue7624
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The JET programme places people in a variety of different places, unsure of what you mean by weird. It is highly competitive and has one intake per year.
Your honesty and specificity is refreshing.
Yes, last I heard the main function of JET was to get teachers for the places that are too hard/not efficient for the dispatch companies to deal with (rural areas, islands, etc).
If you want a fighting chance of being a robot in a big city then better to go for the lower paid non-JET companies. You won’t have any choice where you get sent, but it’s way less likely to be the middle of nowhere because they deal in bulk and only urban & sub-urban areas need bulk ALTs.
Conversely JET is probably great for people who want some kind of inaka authentic Japan experience.
Lmao don’t tell me that the JET program actually considers people with this kind of attitude. No wonder many Japanese people have disdain towards this program.
JET Programme places you wherever they need an English teacher. I’ve been placed in a rural city with 60,000 people, a guy from my cohort was placed in Tokyo and my boyfriend in a village with 1,600 people. So not “weird” places, but the government requires every school to have a native English assistant teacher therefore, every place has some foreigner teaching English. But some cities use other dispatch companies.
hahaha … I like how this one just openly admits it.