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I'm so happy this has started. England game starts at 1:30am here, having a weekend trip to Vegas this weekend so should be able to find somewhere to watch it and gamble a bit of money too. Should be a lot of fun.

Seems like a good opportunity, may as well pursue it as best you can and then, like jayseven says, turn it down later if it doesn't fit in with your plans. My job situation took an interesting twist this week. The President of the company called me into his office having heard I was thinking of leaving. Made me talk through all of my issues, where I really wanted to be, agreed with what I said and then said he would come back to me next week with a new job/agreement and that he hoped I would stay. I have a pretty good idea the kind of thing it's going to be and if that comes up then I think I may stay put for a little while.

Passed my Japanese exam, 91%. Can't wait to start the next level.

Oh my God I want her. New No. 1 on my list.

Oh my god, lets finally meet up in Japan!

If I move back to the uk for a few months can I take serebii on the pull then have a date with an NE girl?

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely send my stuff through to them. Looks full up at the moment but I'll keep them bookmarked for their next rounds of recruiting.

This. 100%. Over here I earn a decent amount of money but the job satisfaction super low. It's totally what's pushed me to look for other things. I'm 100% sure the money will come again in the future, but to be quite honest experiences are far more important.

So I decided to turn down the £45k job, would have been perfect, but I just don't want to go back to London. Left it on good terms so hopefully that's one for the future anyway. Decided I'm going to take a break from my career and move to Japan for a few years. It's always been on my list of things I want to do and ultimately it will benefit me, so why not. Started applying to the various English schools and hopefully can sort something out for early next year.

At least with online dating there won't be a boyfriend forcing you to eat your own eyeball.

Then you just stay out on your own! Have you ever tried chatting to a girl about Pokemon? Don't go crazy with it but as a little aside I'm sure it would perk some interest. SEGA works for me almost everytime.

Holy crap those videos are amazing. Thanks so much for posting them.

Thanks! Yeah I think location would give it away too easily, so I'll save that for now. Had a few talks today at work so need to wait on a few things before everything falls into place.

Had an initial interview for a new role today. Because of contacts, recommendations etc. I was basically told the job is mine if I want it. The only issue is it means moving back to England, and not even in London (though close). Pretty torn right now, job sounds great and I'm confident career-wise it would be a good move. I just don't think I've been in SF long enough to leave, I think I'd regret it from a lifestyle point of view. Need to think long and hard on this one.

Just had a recruiter on the phone for a job back in London. Sounds like exactly what I do and I'd quite like some experience in a different company. £45k is the starting negotiation point so hopefully they can up that a bit when they see the skills. Got a few more to apply for but it's time to start working now damnit.

Congrats to all, looks like there's some good luck on the job front at the moment. I have my annual review at 10 today, if I'm not promoted (I already know I won't be) I'm going to be seriously fucked off.

I've been awake for an hour and it's only 5am. I hate readjustment.

Good luck with the spotty job, nightwolf. I've seen a few talks by Mr Ek and met him once, seems like he'd be an awesome guy to work for. Ashley, someone on one of the Japan forums was saying that uniqlo are very keen on doing their training in Japan, so I reckon you'd definitely have a good chance of making it over there for trips at least. Seems like the kind of place that if you pushed for it they would be open to making it happen long term. Maybe we will finally end up in the same place at the same time. Now that would be a lot of fun.

Well my week in London was very interesting (sorry I didn't manage to catch up with you, Ashley - good luck tomorrow) work seems to be heading in a good direction over the coming months. Most importantly, I've been told, 100%, that if I can get my Japanese up to a decent level it will be arranged for me to work in Tokyo. Quite the incentive I think.

I like the moped idea above. Since I got my scooter I've been loving it and my transport related out goings are basically nothing. £300 for a service? What the heck are you driving? Even the Lotus was only £230 a time.

Realizing that a girl you left for a job opportunity was maybe the only girl you ever truly loved :-( Can't really regret it as I know that had I not gone for it I'd have resented staying behind. But being with my very close friends tonight they make me see sense and I know this girl meant way more to me than I let her at the time. Unfortunately I burnt all bridges with her and she doesn't even want to acknowledge me anymore. Feel pretty shit right now which is something I very rarely do. Just wish there was some way to sort things out with her, unfortunately I don't think there is :-(

If we arrange drinks next week, will you bring Jodie too?

Yeah for sure, I was saying in the love thread I already have three girls lined up for "language exchange" when I'm back in SF. Work is definitely paying off on it, lots of Japanese people who are always very happy to chat with me. All in all it should come along nicely. Then I'll go and live the Japanese dream.

That's true, maybe tutoring hot undergrads would yield many good things. I would like to be able to do something through Sega but I would definitely need to be functional in Japanese. This way I can go over with very basic knowledge and learn as I go along. I won't apply for a while though, so who knows how much I can improve before then. I know I need a change though, and should things not go my way job wise going back to school seems like a fun/rewarding/useful thing to do.