Fuck the JET Programme

Bile ahead. I am going to revert to being five years old with all the attendant kicking and screaming. It will not be pretty, but I will feel much better for it afterward.

Yes, the JET Programme is giving me a job in Japan, but the bottom line is that I wouldn't have accepted it if I'd realised that ( I was being lied to. )

Ooh. さっぱりした。

That will be all.

As an addendum to the above...

...I would like to add that I've been doing work for CIRs in other cities in order to have something worthwhile to do. I've translated webpages. I've written monthly newsletter articles (another thing my city hall won't allow me to do for them). I've translated speeches and presentations. Translated a report on guidelines for delegating government work to NPOs. I've translated an annual report from English into Japanese.

If I sound insanely fucking frustrated, it's because I am, god dammit. I enjoy working. I enjoy looking back on what I've done at the end of my day and feeling like I've accomplished something worthwhile.

And translating, writing reports and articles, giving presentations - this is work that I enjoy. Meaning, I would do it for its own sake if no payment was being proffered. The fact that I've spent the past several months begging other CIRs for their work to do proves that fact.

So having to spend several hours a day in a random school giving my damn best for a job I dislike only to have the homeroom teacher 'correcting' "I like cats" to "I kyatsu," because, and I am quoting here, the "correct English is too difficult for students to learn" is like being slapped in the face.

I like working. I like doing a good job. For the love of god, put me to good use!

That will be all.