Tarto in Japan

I have the pleasure to tell you that I've found a job! All the conditions I had defined are fulfilled:

- 100% Japanese company: because it's the best way to improve my Japanese...even though I'll most likely have a very hard time at the beginning...

- IT-related job: at some point, I was fed up with the IT field and I wanted to change, but now I feel like I regained all my motivation

- in Nagoya: I could go somewhere else and start over from the beginning, but I have too many friends here that I don't want to leave

- from november: it allows me to travel and go back to France before I actually start working

On the minus side, the job isn't technically challenging, it's mostly PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL-based web development, but it's perfect considering my current Japanese level. It'll be hard enough to get used to business Japanese that I don't think I could handle a technical challenge on top of that. Indeed, business Japanese is insanely hard! It's not enough to speak politely, there's a whole specific language to learn first. So first, the linguistic challenge, then the technical one...one thing at a time! On the other hand, it's a foot in the door, which will allow me to significantly improve my language skills! Which in turn will imply new opportunities...

Anyway, I'm still proud about taking and passing interviews in Japanese. Even if, to be honest, the economic context is favorable to the applicants. There are clearly tons of IT jobs, which makes it possible for people who, like me, don't have solid business Japanese skills (and it's an euphemism!) to get hired. I even cancelled an interview!

About this post's title: 大 means "big", and 成功means "success". Shouldn't be too hard then to translate 大成功...