Common advice on these threads is that nobody should come to Japan anymore to teach English. How valid is this opinion though?
JET is supposed to be the 'gold standard' yet looking at the JET discussions, many candidates seem to be in dead-end jobs in their home countries or even unemployed. A lot of other candidates seem to be unemployable for various reasons.
Some people suggest that these people should be able to earn high salaries in their home countries, when clearly they can't.
In most English speaking countries there are lots of graduates with useless degrees earning a pittance. Even when they get to their 40's or 50's their prospects don't change.
Why shouldn't this demographic try Japan? They don't have much to lose.
by Hot-Cucumber9167