Be Positive! My Rant!

I find that most posts here on Let's Japan are very negative. I am finding that I have been driven to being negative as well. I guess one of the reasons I come to this site is to let off a bit of steam and give advice when I can. It only takes one flame to get us firing back with comments. I admit that I am most often quick to flame when I see a flame is due. Here is my positive post for today. As egotistical as it is. Flame if you have to!

Apologies for the repetitive use of 'I'.

• I have been teaching English in Japan for more than 9 years.
• I have not had any problems at work that are worth talking about.
• I have never not been paid.
• I have never been fired.
• I have been working at a High School for 8 years and have never been late or absent.
• I work at a College where they treat me like one of the family.
• I've opened my own school and am making good money there too.
• I've travelled to over 30 countries.
• Teaching has bought me everything I want.
• It has supported my wife and kids.
• Bought me 1.5 houses a car or two and a whole lot of other material junk.
• It has paid for a whole lot of stuff.
• I have met 1000s of people through teaching.
• I have had students with amazing jobs and experiences and have learnt a lot from them as well.
• I get plenty of holidays a year. (more than a salaried office worker)
• I earn more than most salaried office workers.
• I can work when I want to.
• I can be lazy or hardworking.
• Nobody ever complains about my work.
• I have no complaints.
• I've worked in an office before as a computer guru. But after taking a year off and coming back to an industry that changes so often, I decided it would be easier and less stressful to teach English which doesn't change as fast as computer technology.
• I keep my eye out for better jobs but in 9 plus years I've seen nothing that pays as well for so little effort.
• I study Japanese and try and keep up with computer technology and am always ready to change jobs, but why change?

If you're not happy in your current job, you probably never will be happy. Call me a crackpot or a dumbass if you like but things from my high horse look pretty sweet.

Does anybody else have anything positve to say?
Clanning

Clanning....I usually go and do something when I roll.... but hey the computers cool too....omei.

But seriously I think the negitivity is a grest stress relieve. We all rant about B.S. , but its amusing, because all of us can relate to stories about tearing up apartments, can-eh'-dians, the ghettoisation of our buisness and boning our girlfriends siblings... well maybe not all of us.

I say let it out, but lets not get personal.....sh!t, call me a seppo, racist, asian fetish, international male, trashman, urasai bakayaro...But dont get personal, like with FOE, if someone ratted, that is out of line. Freedom of speech is for that which we abhor, not that which we like to hear..or something like that.
Omei

I appreciate Nova for hiring me and giving me the chance to live in Japan while I had a job that allowed me to get by while in Japan.

I appreciate Nova for doing all the work to get me a visa and for arranging an apartment for me before I arrived in Japan.

Except for a couple of psychos and a kid that could not control his bowels, I really enjoyed my students and enjoyed teaching them. In fact, I keep in touch with many of them. It is fun when the holidays come around, and I get all kinds of cards and letters from Japan. I never would have met all of these people if I had not been hired by Nova.

I am happy that Nova gave me a job where I was able to work on my communication skills. At Nova I learned how to explain things in very simple terms to people of various levels of understanding. This has helped me be a better trial lawyer and has definitely helped me in the jury trials that I have done.

I think that is the end of the positive things I have to say about Nova.
Jay Ramey