>>2696423I've heard rough percentage of 20-30% acceptance out of all the applicants. They don't care about degrees (mine has absolutely nothing to do with English or language). It's a long process as you apply in November, find out if you made it through the first round in January, interview in February, and find out if you got in in May. Then you don't find out where you're going in Japan until June or later.
The actual experience varies greatly from person to person. I completely lucked out with my schools (work at 2 high schools), coworkers, and location. My schools and coworkers are fantastic and the students are generally pretty great. I haven't had one instance of being a human tape record as the other anon talked about and have pretty much 100% freedom to make my own lessons (but I think I'm in the minority of JETs who experience this). One of my latest lessons at the tech-focused (kids who want to become mechanics, engineers, etc) high school I teach at was all about cars. Made a powerpoint with 60+ photos of cars from different countries and talked about car types, car parts, and adjectives. The kids loved it.
Pay isn't great, my monthly salary after tax is 2,796,000yen ($23k USD). I plan on staying for a second year and my salary is automatically bumped to ~$25k after tax then. Living expenses are much less than what I'm used to here though and I don't think I'll have a problem putting away $10k a year. I pay more for rent than most people too (about $400/mo). If you live in a rural area rent can be as little as $80/mo.
I came mainly to learn Japanese as I don't really have an interest in teaching. My second goal is saving up for grad school. Overall I'm enjoying it, lots of free time to explore Japan (you get 21 paid vacation days + holidays and work hours or pretty strictly enforced to only be ~830-415 M-F).
>>2696430>http://www.stockyourphoto.com/collection/view-on-town-near-kyoto/Why are you doing this in multiple threads?
