Ozzy, thank you for the update. I've been watching you since 2016 and I still watch you to this day because of your kindness which inspires me a lot. I hope it gets better with your parents and look forward to seeing your life unfold in the upcoming years with Mayu and Maple.
Ozzy I am so sorry to hear about your parents and I really believe you and Mayu can make it through this difficult time. Your fans love you, you have a beautiful heart, and you can do incredible things. Keep going!!!
Don’t worry Ozzy take your time thanks for informing us, hope your dad and mom get better soon, and Mayu finds a job soon in the meantime I would help her set up some sort of freelance work maybe teaching people Japanese or doing art commissions if she likes that. Those telephone call jobs are the worst you won’t be seeing me work there 😂 maybe you could find a job in video editing can edit videos for people they could pay you or you can work in some sort of film project just my suggestions.
Good job option and side hustle ideas. Yah after the call center job I am so drained I have no motivation to do other things but I need to push myself to find some more side hustles.
I hope that your parents get well soon and that Mayu will find a good job. Sorry for my poor English. Thank you very much, Ozzy, for sharing your video with us.
Hey man. I really appreciate how transparent you are being - always have been. I wish the best to you, Mayu and the pup. I was never even full time in Japan, maybe 60-90 days per year, but I left 60-90% of my heart there after March 2020. My project there was de-prioritized and my job eliminated. I have been back to twice since October (total 29 days 笑) on my own dime and going back in 4 weeks, but it’s not the same. I have similar family obligations, plus kids, and I’m struggling with where I want to be.
Its time to move back to Japan I live in Korea currently for 4 years Being a teacher isn't easy But i live like a king here compared to my life in america Where i also found myself working at call centers lol 😅 I'm working on my masters to move up to international schools I did study education as did my wife so this is our profession
@OzzyAwesome maybe you can work on your masters so that if you do go back to Japan you can get higher pay But that's good you're taking care of your parents! Family should always come first
@@jonathansakura I left Japan last month and was working at an international school, but the school had to lay off teachers because of shrinking intake. Me and the hubby were told by HR, they are seeing the early effects of an aging population with lesser birthrates taking its toll. 😢 It was hard to receive the news. We stayed for 7 months till we ran out on visa and jobs offerings were drying up and the economy getting worse. We moved to China.
good luck in 2023! I understand the pull of going back home to take care of family... I'm still in Japan, but thinking of moving back to the States in 2025. One thing you could look into in Toronto, if you haven't already, is that so many Japanese students at uni go to Canada for a year or more and perhaps you could work somewhere that facilitates and arranges these visits.
I had done call centres for two years and the amount of physical and mental health issues I had from that was endless. Never again! I wish you good luck Ozzy!
Your family is lucky to have you. We hope your relationship with Mayu is going well, too. Curious to hear your thoughts on Vancouver, it's changed a lot (not great). Good to hear your diabetes is under control. That runs in my family, it can be scary. It's hard, I door dash way too much. I'm kinda all over the place with my comment. It's good to see an update, thanks for checking in.
Hey there oz!!! Nice to see this vid pop up!!! Sorry to hear the news regards your family Also thanks for always updating and telling us all about what has been happening with your life!!! Best wishes man Always thumbs up!!! 👍🏻✌🏻
So sorry to hear about your parents health, it’s good that you are home to help them out and support them. Life can get really busy, it’s good that you are being positive about it. Winter can be really isolating here. I’m actually going to Japan at the end of this month it will be my first time there. Wishing you all the best.
I love living in Japan, I can't imagine living back in Toronto. Don't want to get stabbed on the TTC. I think I was just lucky to avoid being trapped as a teacher. Within 4 months of teaching I got into recruiting. Much better salary. Plus potential to earn over 12M. Even as a English only speaker
I feel you Ozzy. I returned to the USA some 25 yrs. ago with a Japanese spouse. We sort of eased into it , via Guam, Hawaii, then the mainland. She was able to get some tourism work in both Guam and Hawaii so not much English needed , none , really. I had to get out of the tourist rut to try to make better money on the mainland and worked at a large bank call-center. It was as you say, timed to the second and constant. A real electronic hellscape. But they had free health insurance which helped us out. (That's America , your health care is tied to your job). I lasted about a year, worked security, and finally got a Federal level job part time. Which I held until the earliest possible retirement -age 62. Managed to get out before that at 61 , with the help of a very sharp psychologist who supported us in our goal just to make it to social security. I officially got out on my 62nd b-day with negative balances in both sick and annual leave, a boost to the social security due to 'disablity' and even started a fresh round of unemployment after retiring. None of that was easy and I had to become a good actor and learned to shamelessly push the boundaries of bureaucracy and 'the social safety net' apparatus to no end. Ah well ...I am writing because we had a few things in common. Hang in there and be pro-active, and tenacious. My wife never did get good at spoken English, but she has been an above average partner in the struggle to survive this capitalist dystopia. I think she learned that working in Japan. She got the memo.
@KByouknowbaby In some ways yes. In fact I think many Japanese have it a bit easier than the "working poor' in the USA. Although they would never believe it.They have health care whether employed, or part time, or remote/nomad at home. There are many low cost options for housing as well. Overall, Japan is now less expensive to live in than the USA.Japan has violence, but it not as deadly as the USA with very few guns around. Japan has it's share of nutters, but the ones in the USA have access to automatic weapons.
Toronto has been on the decline for years now. The focus is on construction and building and development and it seems like everything else is just falling apart outside of that. Cost of living, health care is super decline and anyone living with health issues are taking way too long to get looked at or help that this so called free health care system is supposed to provide. Many times it takes so long to get appointments and diagnose issues that health issues get way worse than if they had been looked after early on. This is unfortunately the trend here. It's good that you are here and able to help your parents. I get to see them often when I go for prayers they are usually there so that is a good thing to see. I would say one awesome thing about Mayu is that she does cook some of the tastiest food in town! Hopefully she will be comfortable soon enough to start working as well and that should help out even if it is part time etc. Keep up the search for something new workwise, the one thing here right now is that there is high turnover in work all over the city as people keep changing jobs, coming going etc. Where I work there is shortage of workers and a lot of times new people come and they get some experience and leave. No one seems to stick around for the long haul these days but that also makes for lots of opportunities for other people to come and get work. I also found pay is increasing in a lot of jobs just to attract people to come work. When a city is as expensive as Toronto and the jobs can't cover rent etc. no one sticks around. So many places have to compete now a days for workers so just keep up the search, I am positive you'll find something better! Cheers mate!
Hope you get a better job soon, believe it 🙏 , call centre work is pretty bad, maybe working for a Canadian call center with Canadian customers would be better at least.
I was looking to move to Japan from Canada, don't you find Japan has more things to offer and better quality of life but careers prospect isn't great but still worth the trade off? Canada feels like living to work
hey take care ^^ Prices in Ontario are crazy when i was there in December i was so surprised how much more groceries were then here in van. We have to hang next time i'm there ( December was for family reasons) Have you looked into maybe translation jobs? I can't remember your level of jp but I know there are quite a few jobs available for on set, and different companies.
Thanks for the tips! Yah Toronto prices are pretty bad. Let me know when you are back. My Japanese is too shit to get any type of job. But I will see what pops up.
Hopefully everything turns out for the better 🙏🏼 in the future if things keep going the way they are, would moving back to Japan be something you guys would consider ? Also, really glad to hear from you, I’ve been following your instagram posts to see how you are doing man. You guys Keep your head up.
I hope so! My family issues are here so until that gets sorted not sure what will happen. But visiting might be close. Thanks for following me on Instagram too. Need to post more there as well. Haha
Set up your patreon again and have mayu make some vlogs or reaction videos. I'd pay for that. Alternatively, if she's willing to teach me intermediate Japanese, I can pay by the session.
If it was that easy I would. Mayu is very introverted and has anxiety problems so getting her to do something like that is almost impossible. Maybe one day though. I will let you know.
I'm in BC and it's horrible. The SWAT team was across the street from McDonald's today arresting someone out of a motel known for bed bugs. I'm so done with it here lol. 😂 Everything is expensive. However, we are looking into maybe moving to NB area as it's much more affordable than BC. I'm sorry to hear about your parents and Mayu's depression. It's a difficult transition period in your life, but you have each other. Having a positive and grateful attitude will help, I feel. If Mayu would like a penpal to help her learn English, I'd totally be down. Getting snail mail feels good when it's not bills. Plus it may help her feel more confident.
Yah. I thought she would adjust better but with her nervousness, shyness, and introvertedness it is taking longer. But recently I noticed she I'd getting more positive and actually wants to work. Baby steps. 👶
@@ozzy78 yeah i mean any income support would be nice to help you out, kind of hard to be the bread winner. i'd keep applying to other jobs on a weekly basis, has to be something better than a call centre job like that
Tough stuff my dude, here's to the energy to keep things as strong as possible for you and the family. -E
Thanks!! I miss you guys as well. Hope you're doing well!
Ozzy, thank you for the update. I've been watching you since 2016 and I still watch you to this day because of your kindness which inspires me a lot. I hope it gets better with your parents and look forward to seeing your life unfold in the upcoming years with Mayu and Maple.
Wow, thank you. 😊 I will do my best!
Things always have a way of working out, Ozzy.
I've been following you for a long time and I'm sending good vibes your way.
Woof, woof, Maple!
Awesome. I believe in destiny and karma so hopefully you are right. Maple says arf arf
It is good to see you again I hope life improves for you and your family.
Ozzy I am so sorry to hear about your parents and I really believe you and Mayu can make it through this difficult time. Your fans love you, you have a beautiful heart, and you can do incredible things. Keep going!!!
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I will do my best.
Good to see you Oz. Hope everything goes well
I hope so too. Hope you are doing well too. How's life?
Don’t worry Ozzy take your time thanks for informing us, hope your dad and mom get better soon, and Mayu finds a job soon in the meantime I would help her set up some sort of freelance work maybe teaching people Japanese or doing art commissions if she likes that.
Those telephone call jobs are the worst you won’t be seeing me work there 😂 maybe you could find a job in video editing can edit videos for people they could pay you or you can work in some sort of film project just my suggestions.
Good job option and side hustle ideas. Yah after the call center job I am so drained I have no motivation to do other things but I need to push myself to find some more side hustles.
I hope that your parents get well soon and that Mayu will find a good job.
Sorry for my poor English.
Thank you very much, Ozzy, for sharing your video with us.
Thank you very much! You have been with me since the beginning of the jvlog community. Thanks for your kind words.
Hey man. I really appreciate how transparent you are being - always have been. I wish the best to you, Mayu and the pup.
I was never even full time in Japan, maybe 60-90 days per year, but I left 60-90% of my heart there after March 2020. My project there was de-prioritized and my job eliminated. I have been back to twice since October (total 29 days 笑) on my own dime and going back in 4 weeks, but it’s not the same. I have similar family obligations, plus kids, and I’m struggling with where I want to be.
Wow. Sounds like you definitely have half your heart in Japan. Atleast you can visit. Hopefully I will get to visit next year.
@@ozzy78 indeed. Thanks for the reply. がんばてね☺️
Its time to move back to Japan
I live in Korea currently for 4 years
Being a teacher isn't easy
But i live like a king here compared to my life in america
Where i also found myself working at call centers lol 😅
I'm working on my masters to move up to international schools
I did study education as did my wife so this is our profession
Wish I could but due to my parents I am here for awhile. Hopefully somedau
@OzzyAwesome maybe you can work on your masters so that if you do go back to Japan you can get higher pay
But that's good you're taking care of your parents! Family should always come first
@@jonathansakura I left Japan last month and was working at an international school, but the school had to lay off teachers because of shrinking intake. Me and the hubby were told by HR, they are seeing the early effects of an aging population with lesser birthrates taking its toll. 😢 It was hard to receive the news. We stayed for 7 months till we ran out on visa and jobs offerings were drying up and the economy getting worse. We moved to China.
@heidi-hu1tv oh wow China is now and dubai are the last places offering good money for teaching
It's a very different place from when you left my guy, wish you the best with everything.
Yah. Crazy how different it is. It's like the alternative timeline from Biff. Haha
@@ozzy78 lol Fr Be good brother man, love ya
good luck in 2023! I understand the pull of going back home to take care of family... I'm still in Japan, but thinking of moving back to the States in 2025. One thing you could look into in Toronto, if you haven't already, is that so many Japanese students at uni go to Canada for a year or more and perhaps you could work somewhere that facilitates and arranges these visits.
Yah I was applying for those kind of positions but nothing yet
Hey Ozzy, Thanks for the update. Hope you the best for you, Mayu, Maple, and your parents 🙏. Always rooting for you guys.
Much appreciated! Hope you're doing well as well!!
I had done call centres for two years and the amount of physical and mental health issues I had from that was endless. Never again!
I wish you good luck Ozzy!
I hear ya!
Your family is lucky to have you. We hope your relationship with Mayu is going well, too. Curious to hear your thoughts on Vancouver, it's changed a lot (not great).
Good to hear your diabetes is under control. That runs in my family, it can be scary. It's hard, I door dash way too much.
I'm kinda all over the place with my comment. It's good to see an update, thanks for checking in.
Hey there oz!!! Nice to see this vid pop up!!! Sorry to hear the news regards your family
Also thanks for always updating and telling us all about what has been happening with your life!!!
Best wishes man
Always thumbs up!!! 👍🏻✌🏻
Thanks! Very kind of you. Hope you and your family are also doing well!
Tough Times make Tough People, stay strong bro.
Word!
So sorry to hear about your parents health, it’s good that you are home to help them out and support them. Life can get really busy, it’s good that you are being positive about it. Winter can be really isolating here. I’m actually going to Japan at the end of this month it will be my first time there.
Wishing you all the best.
Wow. You will love Japan!! Let me know know how it went when you get back. What parts will you visit?
Stay strong Oz! See you tomorrow and peace man!!
I love living in Japan, I can't imagine living back in Toronto. Don't want to get stabbed on the TTC. I think I was just lucky to avoid being trapped as a teacher. Within 4 months of teaching I got into recruiting. Much better salary. Plus potential to earn over 12M. Even as a English only speaker
That is cool. I should have done that! TTC is whack.
I wondered when nostalgia for Japan would start kicking in.
Glad to know you're ok...
I feel you Ozzy. I returned to the USA some 25 yrs. ago with a Japanese spouse. We sort of eased into it , via Guam, Hawaii, then the mainland. She was able to get some tourism work in both Guam and Hawaii so not much English needed , none , really. I had to get out of the tourist rut to try to make better money on the mainland and worked at a large bank call-center. It was as you say, timed to the second and constant. A real electronic hellscape. But they had free health insurance which helped us out. (That's America , your health care is tied to your job). I lasted about a year, worked security, and finally got a Federal level job part time. Which I held until the earliest possible retirement -age 62. Managed to get out before that at 61 , with the help of a very sharp psychologist who supported us in our goal just to make it to social security. I officially got out on my 62nd b-day with negative balances in both sick and annual leave, a boost to the social security due to 'disablity' and even started a fresh round of unemployment after retiring. None of that was easy and I had to become a good actor and learned to shamelessly push the boundaries of bureaucracy and 'the social safety net' apparatus to no end. Ah well ...I am writing because we had a few things in common. Hang in there and be pro-active, and tenacious. My wife never did get good at spoken English, but she has been an above average partner in the struggle to survive this capitalist dystopia. I think she learned that working in Japan. She got the memo.
@KByouknowbaby In some ways yes. In fact I think many Japanese have it a bit easier than the "working poor' in the USA. Although they would never believe it.They have health care whether employed, or part time, or remote/nomad at home. There are many low cost options for housing as well. Overall, Japan is now less expensive to live in than the USA.Japan has violence, but it not as deadly as the USA with very few guns around. Japan has it's share of nutters, but the ones in the USA have access to automatic weapons.
Good to hear it. Thank you for sharing it.✌️
My pleasure!!
Toronto has been on the decline for years now. The focus is on construction and building and development and it seems like everything else is just falling apart outside of that. Cost of living, health care is super decline and anyone living with health issues are taking way too long to get looked at or help that this so called free health care system is supposed to provide. Many times it takes so long to get appointments and diagnose issues that health issues get way worse than if they had been looked after early on. This is unfortunately the trend here. It's good that you are here and able to help your parents. I get to see them often when I go for prayers they are usually there so that is a good thing to see. I would say one awesome thing about Mayu is that she does cook some of the tastiest food in town! Hopefully she will be comfortable soon enough to start working as well and that should help out even if it is part time etc. Keep up the search for something new workwise, the one thing here right now is that there is high turnover in work all over the city as people keep changing jobs, coming going etc. Where I work there is shortage of workers and a lot of times new people come and they get some experience and leave. No one seems to stick around for the long haul these days but that also makes for lots of opportunities for other people to come and get work. I also found pay is increasing in a lot of jobs just to attract people to come work. When a city is as expensive as Toronto and the jobs can't cover rent etc. no one sticks around. So many places have to compete now a days for workers so just keep up the search, I am positive you'll find something better! Cheers mate!
Thanks for the comment and the boost. Doing my best to keep afloat.
Awesome job ozzy
Hope you get a better job soon, believe it 🙏 , call centre work is pretty bad, maybe working for a Canadian call center with Canadian customers would be better at least.
That's the plan!
I was looking to move to Japan from Canada, don't you find Japan has more things to offer and better quality of life but careers prospect isn't great but still worth the trade off? Canada feels like living to work
Yah I think that is why I stayed there for 14 years. But for family and career I thought I should come back and see. Who knows what will happen next
hey take care ^^ Prices in Ontario are crazy when i was there in December i was so surprised how much more groceries were then here in van. We have to hang next time i'm there ( December was for family reasons) Have you looked into maybe translation jobs? I can't remember your level of jp but I know there are quite a few jobs available for on set, and different companies.
Thanks for the tips! Yah Toronto prices are pretty bad. Let me know when you are back. My Japanese is too shit to get any type of job. But I will see what pops up.
Hopefully everything turns out for the better 🙏🏼 in the future if things keep going the way they are, would moving back to Japan be something you guys would consider ? Also, really glad to hear from you, I’ve been following your instagram posts to see how you are doing man. You guys Keep your head up.
I hope so! My family issues are here so until that gets sorted not sure what will happen. But visiting might be close. Thanks for following me on Instagram too. Need to post more there as well. Haha
I'm happy to see you and happy that Maple is still with you ❤
Can you teach Japanese? Lol
Hang in there, better days are on the way.
My Japanese is 4 year old little girl style so not many people who want to speak like me. Haha.
Set up your patreon again and have mayu make some vlogs or reaction videos. I'd pay for that. Alternatively, if she's willing to teach me intermediate Japanese, I can pay by the session.
If it was that easy I would. Mayu is very introverted and has anxiety problems so getting her to do something like that is almost impossible. Maybe one day though. I will let you know.
I'm in BC and it's horrible. The SWAT team was across the street from McDonald's today arresting someone out of a motel known for bed bugs. I'm so done with it here lol. 😂 Everything is expensive. However, we are looking into maybe moving to NB area as it's much more affordable than BC.
I'm sorry to hear about your parents and Mayu's depression. It's a difficult transition period in your life, but you have each other. Having a positive and grateful attitude will help, I feel. If Mayu would like a penpal to help her learn English, I'd totally be down. Getting snail mail feels good when it's not bills. Plus it may help her feel more confident.
Wow. Vancouver sucks just as bad as Toronto. Haha. Snail mail would be cool. I will ask and see if Mayu is done with that.
@@ozzy78 snail mail is a rare thing these days, but it's fun!
would probably be easier if Mayu made more of an effort to actually acclimate to Canada
Yah. I thought she would adjust better but with her nervousness, shyness, and introvertedness it is taking longer. But recently I noticed she I'd getting more positive and actually wants to work. Baby steps. 👶
@@ozzy78 yeah i mean any income support would be nice to help you out, kind of hard to be the bread winner. i'd keep applying to other jobs on a weekly basis, has to be something better than a call centre job like that
オジーさん、お久しぶりね！ちなみに、私は今年八月日本に戻ります。ご両親のご多幸をお祈り申し上げます
ありがとう😉👍️🎶 日本行くですね。いいな。僕も行きたい。夏祭りとか楽しんでね😃
Japan needs to find a solution for jobs... by far, it's the biggest complaint about the country.
If you are negative every month then why not move back to Japan.
Wife could easily find a job to help contribute to the family. 早く帰国してね！
Wish I could but more than financial, the issue is my father. Just diagnosed with dementia and the decline is pretty bad so can't leave anytime soon.
Hey Ozzy! Sounds not so awesome.
Yup. But it is what it is.
I had thought the medical system in Canada was top notch being a high tax welfare state system.
Hang in there Ozzy
Yah after covid not so much. Lol
@@ozzy78 interesting. What's the casual link? Medical staff leaving profession because of COVID burn out? Or something else?
Ozzy mate set up some classes to teach Japanese on zoom or something and I’ll sign up because I want to keep learning