{"id":15594,"date":"2010-12-17T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15594"},"modified":"2010-12-17T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:53:38","slug":"national-ajets-life-after-jet-teaching-english-in-japan-lucas-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/17\/national-ajets-life-after-jet-teaching-english-in-japan-lucas-clarkson\/","title":{"rendered":"National AJET’s “Life After JET”: Teaching English in Japan – Lucas Clarkson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucas poses as Honest Abe.<\/p><\/div>\n

National AJET<\/a><\/strong> shares former JET participants’ experiences – and a little advice – with current JETs in their new monthly interview, <\/em>Life After JET<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Contact lifeafterjet [at] ajet.net<\/strong> to be featured in future posts<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lucas Clarkson<\/strong> spent five years on JET as an ALT at high schools and elementary schools and now teaches at a private school in Yokohama<\/strong>. He is currently a social studies instructor at the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP)<\/strong> at Chuo University Yokohama Yamate Girl\u2019s School<\/strong>. Lucas told us a little more about his transition from JET to another teaching position in Japan for this month\u2019s \u201cLife After JET.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

National AJET:<\/strong> Why did you decide to continue teaching in Japan after JET? Was that always your plan?<\/p>\n

Lucas Clarkson:<\/strong> I figured that I had so much invested in this country in terms of time spent, friendships made, and language (presumably) acquired, that to leave after JET would be a mistake. I always knew that I wanted to teach in some capacity, and I was lucky enough to find the position I did, when I did.<\/p>\n

National AJET:<\/strong> Are there any resources you could recommend to someone looking for a teaching job in Japan?<\/p>\n

Lucas:<\/strong> As far as resources go, there are the usual suspects: GaijinPot, Ohayo Sensei and Jobs in Japan. These are all helpful if you know exactly what you\u2019re looking for. If you\u2019re looking for International School positions there are a number of online headhunter-type sites where you pay a nominal fee to post your resume and other information online for prospective schools to see.<\/p>\n

National AJET: <\/strong>Can you tell me a little bit about the logistics of staying on after JET \u2013 moving, getting a new visa, etc? Where there any difficulties that you didn\u2019t expect?<\/p>\n

Lucas:<\/strong> No major difficulties at all really, as long as you have a legitimate employer willing to sponsor you. If you decide to take the independent route however, you\u2019re going to run into a host of difficulties. Just be sure to have (a) Japanese friend(s) on hand to help you with visa paperwork and the like.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for the rest of the interview.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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