Hello everyone, this is D. I’m back.
It is with great joy that I am sharing with all of you that gaba has offered me a teaching position with them. 😀 They have been pretty fast in processing the application and I received the reply 3 days after my final interview with them. This means that the whole recruitment process took 5 weeks for me.
I recall in my first post that I wanted to share about different Japanese Language schools that I have shortlisted. Guess I won’t be going into that anytime soon because with this job coming up, my plans to study Japanese full time will need to wait. Instead, I will follow up with posts on the process of moving to Japan, which I hope will be helpful for readers here.
In addition, if you have been thinking of going to Japan and you are willing to teach English to score a chance to live in Japan, now you know gaba is indeed a way. 😉
With this, I have 2 months left in Singapore before I move over to Japan. Right now, all I feel is a kind of fulfillment and excitement that nearing 30, I’m actually getting a childhood dream from when I was 17 years old fulfilled. However, I have to admit that time seems to be moving at a much faster pace right now because 2 months to uproot myself feels super short and insufficient
There’s a season for everything in life and I think right now, it is the season to be courageous and make the move so that I can discover what experiences lie ahead for me in this life.
And now, G gets a companion for real. Lol.
Till then,
D.
Congrats!!! Looking forward to more posts about your journey and all the best!!
Thank you, J!! 😀
Woohoo! Congratulations! I’m pleasantly surprised to know that we’re about the same age (I’ll turn 30 later this year). Do keep us posted on how things go!
hahaa! I wonder if you had thought I was younger or older, lol! And I will! 😉
Given that I know JH is around the mid-30s, I thought older. XD Sorry!
lol nooooo!!! hahaha :p
GASP SO FASTTTT congrats T_T i feel super jelly right now haha
Faster graduate and join me, hahaa
Congratulations! ^^
I created a spreadsheet that might be able to estimate your monthly income with Gaba. It was originally intended for a friend who is considering living in Japan. Take the numbers with a pinch of salt, however, as many assumptions were made based on information found on their website.
The link I wanted to add did not work too well, so I broke it into multiple parts. Simply access the joined parts:
http://www.dropbox.com/
s/tqqhgzi6rnu1shj/
Gaba%20Calculator.xlsx?dl=0
Hi Marc, thanks so much for that!
I checked out that calculator and WOAH that schedule is madness! The person will basically be a teaching machine that doesn’t function during normal work hours, lol. But that’s a pretty cool calculator, really. Your friend is lucky to have you to chart that out for him/her! 🙂
Feel free to download and make modifications where you see fit. I was wondering how much can be earned by taking advantage of the higher paying lessons and it seems like a pretty huge number. Of course, a lot of effort will be needed too. Good luck.
Wow amazing!
Hello D, thanks so much for sharing your interview process here! I’m having my first interview tomorrow and reading your experience and the other contributions helps a lot. I started reading company reviews and saw that sexual harassment & lack of belt progression complaints were reported last year too… would you be able to share your experience working at Gaba, specifically on these 2 areas? I’m not too surprised to read about them, sadly, but it would help a lot to hear directly from you too how it was for you…
Hope all is good in Taiwan!
Cheers!
Hi there! Sorry my response is a bit late, am not checking here that often, do pardon me.
Firstly, hope your interview went well!
Now let me address your concerns.
About sexual harassment, based on my experience, I do not recall any incidents that made me feel that I was a victim of sexual harassment. Of course, I do have some male clients who enjoy talking to me, who message me semi strange messages (yes, I gave them my Line contact) when they are drunk (lol) but none of them were significant in my opinion. I’m really friendly though, so if someone else had the same experience as I did, maybe they might consider themselves harassed, lol. And this is the point I would like to stress on. Whether or not there is sexual harassment is largely based on the person’s own perception as well. For example, my instructor friend was very affected by this client who asked her questions like “how are you like when you are drunk” and the way some clients keep staring at her, telling her she has beautiful eyes, but for all those stuff she mentioned, usually I am just glad to receive compliments and I’ll just answer the question as it is, without giving it much thought. so to her, she was harassed but to me, I wasn’t. But if you’re talking about PHYSICAL sexual harassment, I’d say I’ve not heard about it in my studio for the 1.5 years that I was there.
Now regarding belting. I was belted in less than 6 months and my friends who joined at the same time was belted as well by the time I left. If an instructor’s rating is not good and he/she doesn’t put in much lessons, I’m not surprised if he/she isn’t belted because belting requires justification by the manager.
All the best and enjoy your time in Gaba! I miss all my clients until today.
Thank you for replying! It’s really assuring to hear your POV. =) I’m waiting to see if I make the 2nd interview, so fingers crossed!