Started looking for full-time jobs right when I woke up this morning. Seems like at the very least I'll have to expand my search to outside of Sendai... I found one place that's probably desperate enough to take in foreigners - a horse-racing place in Hokkaido (your only job being basic stablework) that will even give you housing if you need it - but my wife's saying stuff like that is too far-fetched and they won't give a foreigner a work VISA. For some reason English-teaching schools aren't really advertising as hiring, even though they're all supposed to be needing a lot more workers now thanks to the upcoming Olympics. What's hiring is stuff like cashier-work which is totally fine as a part-time job but can't get me a work VISA.

Also remembered about that "work on a Japanese farm for a year!" thing but the first results I found all said you don't get PAID anything, you just get to live + eat there for free as you do volunteer work all year. Which isn't gonna help my situation since I'll still have to end up spending money.

From now on I need to somehow research what kind of translation is good for a translation portfolio to get me hired. I figured I can just do a restaurant menu, some worker's rules or something, that kind of everyday stuff, and then throw in one page of novel translation or something. I definitely DON'T want to translate anything important or difficult at my current level of Japanese, but it looks good on a portfolio anyway. I don't know how *big* your portfolio has to be to get you picked up, or even to what kind of companies you send it in to.

Today I've gotta go to the eye clinic to ask about an eye test that proves I'm disabled, and call the JLPT office to ask them to send me papers so I can register as a disabled person... I'll be grateful if the JLPT guys can speak English because I don't know the words for this stuff and it'll be my first phonecall in Japan...