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Yeah then getting into building the hardware is a good route. I was watching this video to check into it a while back. ruclips.net/video/-nunWaprTM4/видео.html

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I get contacted by a lot of recruiters on Linkedin and other places. I've had interviews through job websites like Paiza and Bizreach. The company I work for interviews people who contact directly and through all those other sources. The way I got in at this company was from responding to a Tweet from the Tech Lead. It's all about networking unless you have something amazing on your resume, like CS degree from ivy league and internship at a FAANG level company or something.

It is hard but not impossible. You have to do something to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Someone who has been slacking off in Japan as an English teacher or something and has no tech background will be at a big disadvantage for sure. Someone who did a CS degree to the minimum standards without doing anything above and beyond the call of duty will also be at a disadvantage. Luckily for me, I had been working hard throughout the years to study the Japanese language so I passed every level of the JLPT from N5 to N1. I had that going for me. I can work in a Japanese speaking office. I also did some very basic freelancing, building a homepage for a local business. The freelance project was nothing special but it showed that I was taking the initiative and very serious about changing my career. One real project for a client that you took from the client's requirements and built out into reality, did the infrastructure to host it on the internet, connect domain, etc....that one REAL project is worth 100 practice projects in my opinion. If companies are requiring you to have work experience then you have to go out and make your own work experience. You might have to build a couple of projects for free but take it seriously as if they were paying you a lot of money, do a good job, and get that real experience employers are looking for.

Thanks! I will keep on going!

Thanks for the advice! I'm still learning all the best practices, I'll definitely check it out. Any idea how to get the google search result to not show Create Next App and Generated by create next app as our website name and title? I've tried quite a few things and can't get it to work. Somewhere said to make an _app.js file with header info. I tried adding header info in various files.

Check my other ones

Headless is next on my list of things to try. I almost has a contract to do it but the client decided not to.

very true. But if someone is thinking about getting into coding after 30 they probably don't have anything lined up that would be better than being a C-tier coder. I had being a guitar teacher and fluent in Japanese. That's about it. We are losers looking for a second chance at success in life.

@@WebDevJapan Nobody is loser, its just matter of amount of time you need to spend + individual talent and fact that above 30 you usually have family with different priorites. C-tier coder is still ok, good salary, cool job, but they just need to accept that they will be not second linus propably.

@@frontalachivment3604 Yes, I've accepted that. Now I'm working full-time as a c-tier front end dev at a tech company while starting my own e-commerce dev agency on the side with low code / no code.

very cool I see the flag. Are you American?

@WebDevJapan not American, but I like American country 💕

Thanks. You're gonna hate my Tokyo day in like video of when I went into the office lol

yeah....I guess work from home people

I didn't show it in this video but Akihabara is my favorite place to go, if you like anime and/or video games.

For the website in the thumbnail, yes they will need at least N2. It's primarily for Japanese people but I got a lot of interviews on there as a foreigner with N1. There are other websites that are okay with N3 level Japanese.

You got it! I'll be waiting for that professional comment! I'm gonna share this on my personal Facebook so I see it in my Facebook memories next year. I'll come back and see how you're doing.

I wouldn't say it affects the salary because some of the highest paying companies don't require any Japanese and the tech team is all in English. But you'd need to be more of a senior level dev. Having high Japanese skills will get you in the door with low tech skills. That was my situation. I had no CS degree, no work experience, but I have N1 Japanese.

@WebDevJapan what the salary difference in international company and japanese company for Entry level ( with N2 langauge certificate) in full stack or any tech job you know of . AND TOP 3 CITY FOR SOFTWARE JOBS IN JAPAN THAT'S ITT

@@Crowely271 I'm not sure about the difference in salary. I haven't noticed. You can check the best jobs on japandev.com The general Tokyo area has the most tech jobs. Osaka and Nagoya are also good.

@@WebDevJapan and how's the market ( Acceptance rate in jobs ) for the entry level full stack developer or web developer or software developer in Tokyo

@@Crowely271 It's better than most other countries in the world. I'm almost at a year and a half of full-time work experience in Japan and I don't think I would be able to get a job in the USA right now.

Arigato🙏

very well said YES

That's awesome! Let me know if you need any help finding a job over here.

I should have edited that out lol

It really depends on the company's policy. If they are a forward thinking company and are trying to fill the vacant positions with foreigners then they should set aside their outdated way of thinking that tattoos are associated with criminals. You can get an idea of this by looking at their company website or trying to stalk some of the employees on Linkedin or other social media and see if people have visible tattoos. But for many Japanese companies I would try to cover it up with bandage if you can. I wear fingerless gloves in the wintertime anyway so it wouldn't be so strange for you to wear some gloves most of the time, saying it helps with carpel tunnel or something. And some days use a bandage instead so people don't get suspicious. Sadly, that is the reality of living in Japan with tattoos. I have one on my bicep. I have to keep a towel hanging over my shoulder anytime I go to a hot spring because many hot springs have a sign saying no tattoos and they will kick you out if you sneak in with a tattoo and they see you with it exposed.

@ Big thanks and appreciate your time and respond. I could not able to know which company i will work as the Hakken shain but i store your great advice. Keep up the great work !

You mean you tried hosting your own page with Github pages? I've had some errors like that before. It might be the file structure of your project. If you can't figure it out I'll take a look at it. Hit me up on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-taylor-782020226/

www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-taylor-782020226/

anime, sushi, and MUSCLE

I saw your comment and then went and watched a 10 minute tutorial on it. Pretty amazing. Thanks!

7 figure yen salary

What kind of student? Studying CS? Joining a language school to study Japanese?

If you stay consistent, you will. Where are you at in your coding journey so far?

lol yeah! I'm definitely going back next time I'm over that way.

I thought it's a nice office to work in. I could understand if you were talking about the hallways. I did get lost at one point but there's nothing they can do about that. It's a public office building and Cisco just has offices on multiple floors in there.

@ oh yah no I just mean me personally I’ve worked in the woods and on ranches most my life, if I have to do office it has to be my own personal battle station. Was a nice video though relaxing.

It really helps to have a Masters degree or substantial industry experience. Other than that you just have to apply to the open jobs you see. But from my experience, it's better if you have contact with someone in the company.

Yeah! I spent so much time searching for where things were defined in other files before my co-worker showed me that. I should click around on random things more often to experiment.

Understandable. Since high school I thought I would never be in an office job. I couldn't stand the thought of sitting at a desk all day doing some meaningless paper/computer work. What changed my mind? Realizing that a coder job is more than that. It's actually a creative job, especially if you're a front end web developer like me. You create cool things that are actually useful to people. I'm also a musician and I get the same satisfaction from building a cool website or app that people use as I do from playing a song on my guitar that people enjoy listening to. And seeing day in the life videos on RUclips where people weren't actually sitting in a cubicle all day. They had really good working conditions. Yeah, you have to sit down for some hours on your laptop and focus on writing some code. But my job is fully remote so I can do that anywhere and anytime I want. I can do it while laying in bed in my underwear if I want. Or I can go out and do it at a coffee shop. Or I can go into the office if I feel like socializing. It's the same as sitting in my room trying to write a new song on the guitar for me. But if you're doing backend software development and dealing with data it might not be the same experience. Well, the working conditions will be the same. I'm just not sure if the artistic side of it is the same or not.

Yeah I know it probably looks like that on the surface. But there are some jobs that really just care about your skills rather than your credentials. I know because I got one and I know other people who did. You will need at least one strong point that makes you stand out. For me that was already being in Japan for 6+ years (that means I'm probably adjusted to the society here by now) and able to speak Japanese well enough to do the whole interview process in Japanese. I don't have a CS degree and I didn't have work experience. I did have some freelancing experience building basic web pages but I don't think that was a huge factor in their hiring decision.

@@WebDevJapan Thanks for the reply

Thanks. I'm on a low budget and filming with a basic iphone so I won't be doing any fancy stuff here.

jajaja no sabia quien es Oscar Burgos pero lo acabo de googlear.

Stay consistent and you'll do it!

@ appreciate it bro!

maybe I'm not doing it right lol But yeah there was a bit of a learning curve when I went from basic React apps to TypeScript and Next.js apps.

Are you majoring in CS? The times that I made the most progress was when building projects, especially projects for clients. I didn't get paid for the first freelance project I did. I offered a business to build their home page for free and it took me like 2 months to do it. The experience you get in building a project from start to finish for a client is something you can't get from a book, a tutorial or course, etc. So, that's my advice. Just get out there and build stuff for people. You might have to do it for free in the beginning but after you know what you're doing you can get money for it.

Somehow I enjoyed it

😂 to each their own I guess lol

Yes! That's what I'm trying to tell people. Some of my friends from high school are broke and like "I wish I had made good decisions in life like you bro" but I feel like I didn't start making the really good decisions until 3 years ago. It took only 2 years of focus to completely change my life.

If it's just Ruby, yes. If you're using Ruby on Rails it will be difficult but I think it's still possible. In that case I would just use something else like Heroku or AWS.

@@WebDevJapan Cheers, I have someone who already got a hosting subscription with hostinger and I work in ruby on rails so I will have to see if they work well together