So one of my New Year’s resolution, write on this blog more often, has completely failed, haha!
The reasons why I haven’t updated this blog are the result of compounding problems…depression (sorta), laziness, and simply being too busy! Regardless, here’s an update on my life (and more specifically my JET application process) since my last blog:
- I didn’t even get an interview with JET! This pretty much made me depressed (at first), since I felt that my application, essay, and letters of recommendation were strong enough to at least warrant an interview. Apparently not! Though I understand the problems…thanks to an unsavory jobs outlook in America and budget cuts to the program in Japan, the JET Program was probably extremely competitive this year. STILL, I wasn’t expecting to be an automatic shoe in to the program, but at least an interview! Ah well, in my last entry, I said pride was the fall of man…cockiness is the fall of man too!
- I’ve finally gotten a job. More than a year after I started looking for a job, I’m finally an Account Executive at a small company called Yelp.com. You might have heard of it! Technically, I don’t start till next week, but let’s not sweat the small stuff
Well, that’s about it so far…as my life since college has been pretty tame (another word for boring).
So what now? Do I try to look for another program, or do I try again for JET next year? Maybe I should drop the idea of teaching English abroad? I know in one of my early posts, I said that if I don’t get into the JET, I’d probably try for another program, but thinking back on it, as far as Japan goes, its JET or nothing for me. Now that I’ve gotten a job at Yelp, maybe I want to actually work on my career for awhile, and what about getting that MBA?
Maybe I should try again for JET after a year or two working for Yelp–but do I want to lower myself to being essentially a teacher’s assistant after 2 years of working for Yelp? (Not to mention a probably pay cut, unless the Yen gets considerably stronger).
Regardless…it’s no use worrying about what I want to do or what might happen a year, or 2 years from now. In the back of my mind, I know I’ll probably try for JET again for the 2012 year, but who knows how I’ll really feel or what’s happening in my life at that point, eh?
I’ll probably still be updating this blog more often…no more 3 months hiatus for me!
