I'm doing 29 things
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#
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3. run a half marathon
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4. Lose 20 pounds
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5. learn Russian
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6. go somewhere warm
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7. Learn to surf
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8. Visit Australia
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9. Learn Perl
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10. Learn Ruby
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11. Buy a motorcycle
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12. own an audi
39 people -
13. Learn to cook
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14. Skydive
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15. drive across the USA
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16. Write more
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17. learn to bartend
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18. learn to SCUBA dive
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19. Get a tattoo
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20. open a bar
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21. open a restaurant
559 people -
22. register my business name
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23. Learn a martial art
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24. read every book I own
2,138 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
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28. learn how to blow glass
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29. have sex in a victoria's secret dressing room
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Recent entries
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. :)
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.
