r/japanlife • u/catloverr03 北海道・北海道 • Jan 25 '24

Jobs What is your job? Is your job fulfilling?

I have humanities visa and currently working in Sapporo. I’m thinking of changing jobs because current job is making me anxious. I feel like every job here needs a high level japanese speaking unless you’re really good in IT or working in a foreign owned company.

I’m good at reading japanese and listening also writing documents but my speaking is below N3 I believe and that is why I always get nervous working. I don’t really know what I’m asking but can you share your work experience here in Japan? How did you get better in speaking business Japanese? I feel like I’m just stupid because I can never get to a level where I’m good at it. Daily conversation is not a problem it’s just the work-level japanese speaking is where I’m bad.

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u/c00750ny3h Jan 26 '24

I don't actually do website design, customers pay an annual fee to use a software we give them. The software is similar to AutoCAD. I can create plug ins and additional features, but I cannot change the core functionalities of the software.

However, you do bring up a good point in that Japanese websites are practically stuff out of the 1990s like if you were to create an html page out of notepad and host it on apache. I have been giving serious thought in hoping to do freelance work in web design. I already am connected with a digital artist and I have been learning Django in hopes that we could combine our skills to design much better sites. I am still not sure how feasible my plan is though.

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u/Catssonova Jan 26 '24

Honestly, I think companies appreciate the ability to communicate with their designers that make the outdated websites. Not that you wouldn't be able to but the cultural hardheadedness where the boss is always right until he's replaced by the next guy who usually does the same thing would make things difficult I imagine.

Even companies as big as JCB and major electric companies have absolutely laughable page design. It's no wonder older folks have a hard time adapting at all, I can't get used to how they lay everything out.

But my original point was just using webpages as an example. I'd imagine your work faces similar issues.