{"id":18844,"date":"2011-04-19T00:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18844"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:31:05","slug":"national-ajet%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9clife-after-jet%e2%80%9d-sabrina-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/19\/national-ajet%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9clife-after-jet%e2%80%9d-sabrina-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"National AJET\u2019s \u201cLife After JET\u201d: Sabrina Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>National AJET<\/strong> shares former JET participants\u2019 experiences <\/em>\u2013 and a little advice \u2013 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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This month, we caught up with a recent JET-Alum, Sabrina Venture<\/strong>. Before JET, Sabrina was a painting major<\/strong> looking to pay off her student loans. As such, she took a job with a Police Department<\/strong> as a dispatcher<\/strong>. She \u201csought out that job since it had governmental security and lots of perks (never a parking ticket!), good pay, and offered an education pay program.\u201d However, after two years, she was burnt-out \u2014 \u201ctoo many people dying and too much drama and sad stories\u201d \u2014 and looking for a break.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where JET came in. Sabrina moved to Kyoto<\/strong> for a year in 2009. She \u201cwould have stayed on the JET program but [she] had a fianc\u00e9 waiting for [her] so [she] returned to the states. [She] took a month off for [her] wedding and applied to other agencies to go back to dispatch.\u201d By then, she was feeling less burnt-out and found a position in a quieter area. \u201cIt\u2019s a smaller agency, quieter than New England, and [she\u2019s] living in an adorable apartment right in downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabrina tells us a little bit about her transition back to her previous career in the States (and how she\u2019s infused it with a little of her Japan-experience) and how she keeps her creative juices flowing\u2026<\/p>\n

NAJET<\/strong>: Have you experienced any reverse culture shock since coming back? (You\u2019ve probably been keeping busy with the wedding and finding a job and everything, so maybe you haven\u2019t had a chance to worry about that!) If you have, how did you deal with it?<\/p>\n

Sabrina<\/strong>: Culture everything-is-cooler-in-Japan shock. I dunno. I really, REALLY miss the beauty of the natural surroundings. I don\u2019t miss the crowds in downtown. I can also go back \u2014 maybe not with JET, but there are other ways to get into Japan. I don\u2019t consider JET my one and only shot at time in Japan and knowing I can always go back helps keep any culture shock in check.<\/p>\n

NAJET<\/strong>: You\u2019ve returned to a career that you had before JET, does it feel different? I know you said your time on JET helped you get over some of your burnout \u2014 but is there anything else? A new perspective?<\/p>\n

Sabrina<\/strong>: I returned to the same career \u2014 but not at the same place \u2014 and I had to take a pay cut due to financial restraints in the county. That sucked. It still sucks. But I DO have a job, and a nice place to live, and while I\u2019m not swimming in cash, I have enough to cover my needs and still save. My time in JET helped my remember to appreciate the things I do have and relax about things I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I think that before I left I was really focused on the bottom line and early retirement \u2014 I was so focused on earning as much as possible that I worked in neighborhoods that were dangerous and dirty. After JET, I\u2019m more focused on the non-monetary aspects to quality of life \u2014 I consider things like population, crime rate, natural beauty now instead of just money.<\/p>\n

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National AJET shares former JET participants\u2019 experiences \u2013 and a little advice \u2013 with current JETs in their new monthly interview, Life After JET.\u00a0 Contact lifeafterjet [at] ajet.net to be featured in future posts. ************* This month, we caught up with a recent JET-Alum, Sabrina Venture. Before JET, Sabrina was a painting major looking to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73,10,25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-career","category-interviewprofile","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t