I'm doing 29 things
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23 months ago
Hey, I did this last year. w00t.
pd's Life List
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1. Learn Japanese
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2. learn C#
1 entry624 people -
3. run a half marathon
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4. Lose 20 pounds
1 entry6,729 people -
5. learn Russian
2,466 people -
6. go somewhere warm
1 entry7 people -
7. Learn to surf
7,445 people -
8. Visit Australia
2,508 people -
9. Learn Perl
249 people -
10. Learn Ruby
1,825 people -
11. Buy a motorcycle
1 cheer909 people -
12. own an audi
37 people -
13. Learn to cook
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14. Skydive
10,350 people -
15. drive across the USA
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16. Write more
3,540 people -
17. learn to bartend
1 cheer617 people -
18. learn to SCUBA dive
1 cheer2,583 people -
19. Get a tattoo
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20. open a bar
1 cheer276 people -
21. open a restaurant
516 people -
22. register my business name
6 people -
23. Learn a martial art
1,473 people -
24. read every book I own
2,113 people -
25. learn to play blackjack better
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26. learn to play poker better
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27. Open a Swiss bank Account
2 team members62 people -
28. learn how to blow glass
2 team members478 people -
29. have sex in a victoria's secret dressing room
2 team members . 2 cheers4 people
Recent entries
Peh.
23 months ago
The only interest I had in Sybase was how it could improve my resume in the eyes of prospective Japanese employers. Now that that’s no longer a motivation, well… fuck Sybase. :)
To recap.
23 months ago
We came back from Japan after 6 months because I ran out of money, but I doubt that I’d have had an easy time coming back for another 3 months as a tourist anyway.
I did get one job offer the first month that we were there, but it was in Kyoto and we wanted to stay in Tokyo. It wasn’t too much of a problem to find people interested in hiring me, but that first company ended up being the only one willing to sponsor me for a visa.
I learned a couple important things about job hunting in Japan, at least in the IT industry, the most important probably being that most hiring takes place in the summer. I arrived in Japan at the beginning of August and prospects looked pretty good, but by September there were a lot fewer openings and most companies didn’t seem in too much of a hurry to fill them. I think I would have had a lot better luck if I’d arrived even a few weeks earlier.
