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just checked out a ton of jobs on this one job site for sendai i found.
basically all the entry-level jobs are "everyone is ok! housewife, exchange student, old person, whatever! completely inexperienced people are welcomed, we normally take them! if you need to change or skip a shift just ask! easy work! working for only a month and then quitting is actually just fine!". they're so casual they're even putting emoticons and "lol" in the job description pages. and most of them WANT you to work in the evenings or at night (like 9pm-1am) which means I'd actually be able to come back home afterwards and sleep a bit before class, do my homework / get groceries after class and still have time to mess around before going to work, if it came to it.
stuff like café work, ramen places, conveyor-belt sushi places, basically all you do is take out / remove food and then little by little they show you how to do stuff in the kitchen. they're basically saying that it's ridiculously easy work and in some places you can even "choose to only do shifts with your friends if you want to". if you get into any "fancier" level of work (convenience stores, diners) they also teach you "good manners and polite language" and you might have to memorize the menu.... but still, nothing too bad. those fancier places also seem less friendly. i'm not going to try for those, i need the friendliest, most-casual place ever for my first job... I've never had a job y'know...
the other unskilled work is either one-time stuff ("help out with this one marathon") or secretary/call jobs. i haven't yet seen one that was a delivery job or specifically needed you to have a car/bike. also none of them have said anything about you needing to know japanese, but obviously you have to know enough to be able to do whatever job you're doing...
the salaries are normally 800-900 (high end: 1000; intro month's low-end: 700) yen per hour. even working part-time, in one month that should be enough to pay for one person's rent and groceries.
it's unclear if i could jump from part-time to full-time and actually get a work VISA from any of these, but i'm so relieved that it seems completely different from looking for work in the US and Sweden.
basically all the entry-level jobs are "everyone is ok! housewife, exchange student, old person, whatever! completely inexperienced people are welcomed, we normally take them! if you need to change or skip a shift just ask! easy work! working for only a month and then quitting is actually just fine!". they're so casual they're even putting emoticons and "lol" in the job description pages. and most of them WANT you to work in the evenings or at night (like 9pm-1am) which means I'd actually be able to come back home afterwards and sleep a bit before class, do my homework / get groceries after class and still have time to mess around before going to work, if it came to it.
stuff like café work, ramen places, conveyor-belt sushi places, basically all you do is take out / remove food and then little by little they show you how to do stuff in the kitchen. they're basically saying that it's ridiculously easy work and in some places you can even "choose to only do shifts with your friends if you want to". if you get into any "fancier" level of work (convenience stores, diners) they also teach you "good manners and polite language" and you might have to memorize the menu.... but still, nothing too bad. those fancier places also seem less friendly. i'm not going to try for those, i need the friendliest, most-casual place ever for my first job... I've never had a job y'know...
the other unskilled work is either one-time stuff ("help out with this one marathon") or secretary/call jobs. i haven't yet seen one that was a delivery job or specifically needed you to have a car/bike. also none of them have said anything about you needing to know japanese, but obviously you have to know enough to be able to do whatever job you're doing...
the salaries are normally 800-900 (high end: 1000; intro month's low-end: 700) yen per hour. even working part-time, in one month that should be enough to pay for one person's rent and groceries.
it's unclear if i could jump from part-time to full-time and actually get a work VISA from any of these, but i'm so relieved that it seems completely different from looking for work in the US and Sweden.
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