Teaching privately in Japan, on top of you ALT job, or other English teaching job

[davidkeithbecket]

cheers for info

[MrKoize]

Teach doctors and their kids. They have the most money and are the most serious about learning English.

[calpicon]

Good points, mybigtokachi. Thanks for your comments. Contracts can vary from prefecture to prefecture, too--especially for jets. They can also vary from municipality to municipality. Most definitely, part time jobs are allowed in Kagawa Prefecture (I checked it out), if you are given permission. I also spoke to one municipal JET who told me that his contract specifically reads that he cannot work at all. He obviously does not have the boilerplate contract.

[mybigtokachi]

pt 4. I asked formally for permission and they gave it to me because the city government had a policy that shokutaku shokuin could work part time jobs. Again, my situation is different than most ALTs. But it does show that working within the system in good faith can lead to positive outcomes.

[mybigtokachi]

pt 3. My situation is different than most ALTs. I was on a spouse visa, now PR, so there weren't any sponsorship issues. I didn't live in teacher housing either. And I was operating my business in a different town where I lived and not where I worked. I showed my supervisor the clause in the contract (more or less the standard JET boilerplate) that says that outside work can only be done with the permission of the supervisor, not that it can't be done at all. more...

[mybigtokachi]

con'd. The JET contract doesn't actually prohibit outside employment, it just says that the supervisor must approve of it.  The reason for this is that, as the sponsor of a work visa, the BOE is responsible for any legal problems the ALT might have - for example, failure to report income for tax purposes. There are also insurance liability issues in the event that someone is injured in your house. more...

[mybigtokachi]

Your info is slightly incorrect. Regular komuin civil servants aren't permited to work outside of their job but shokutaki shokuin, the category most ALTs are in, aren't prohibited by law from outside work. Each government agency - city, prefectural departments, etc. - are free to make their own policy. Most of them permit shokutaku shokuin to engage in work that wouldn't reflect poorly on the agency they work for - part-time store clerk, ok, hostess in a snack bar, probably not.

[kebunsha]

good job. After doing things at presumably higher levels of the English food chain, I ended up working. as an ALT in my town for a private dispatch. The way I handle duplicates like kids I visit at primary school and those who come to learn in the evening is just say I AM NOT YOUR TEACHER. My non-English speaking wife is their teacher or my 26 year old son is. I am just an unpaid volunteer,

[cornelioushuxtable]

Thanks for the useful video- I kept thinking of the phrase "don't ask/ don't tell" in regards to the issue.

[calpicon]

Good points, JMO. A lot about taking on privatest depends on your work situation at your main job. But, sometimes it is better, as I said, to not even ask if it is OK. And, if you get in a situation like your friend in Okayama, deal with it like that. Also, a lot of privates invariably become untaxed income, unless you decide to claim the money yourself. Taxes and second jobs is definitely a topic for a later video memo.

[GrapplerJMo]

another thing my friends who do extra work outside of their alt work, rather than not telling their parent program or company, they also don't claim it on their taxes as well, ha ha ha ha ha ha

[GrapplerJMo]

good video. i'm watching this from my cell. from what i know and heard outside of this video, i know alts who do have private jobs, but they can teach under the condition as long as it's not one of their school students. just so they don't give them specific favoritism and what not. i have a friend who works in the juku in okayama, but had to quit because only one of his students at a high school he works at was now going there.