My experience:
- A degree in graphic design
- About 4.5 years of experience as a copywriter/content writer - this is my current job
- 1 year of experience teaching English online
- 14 years of experience playing in various bands
- No practical/work experience, but I passed the JLPT N2 recently
My goals:
- I want to transition to an ENG/JPN bilingual role
- I want to build a career as a bilingual/Japanese language professional
- I'd like to get on a path to making enough money to marry my girlfriend (more on this below)
I'm not passionate about any of my work. I think I can get into it if it was ENG/JPN bilingual work because I dreamed of becoming a translator when I was a teen, but with AI being so smart nowadays and workplaces having greater demands than just knowing Japanese, I'm lost.
I know bilingual work pays more, so I'm trying to shift to that. I've tried applying to bilingual CSR roles, QA roles, any role that said "bilingual" and "no experience required". I'm absolutely willing to learn new tools. My only special skill is that I can work hard.
(Non-essential/"emotional" info below)
I grew up without much direction, and I thought of myself as a professional musician for a while. I still took on day jobs because you don't make a lot playing music. All my savings went to vices or other stupid things because I never thought I'd marry or start a family or anything. I did not save.
Now I have a girlfriend and I really want to marry her. I know she wants to have a family, so I'm trying my best to find better work so we can get married before her biological clock reaches that time when conceiving could become difficult. Thing is, where we live, you need a boatload of money to get married. Of course, I also want to be in a position where I can comfortably provide for us moving forward. Plus, my girlfriend deserves to have the wedding she wants - not just a beige civil ceremony at the city hall (though I highly respect couples who choose this).
It's just been a lot on me lately, applying to a lot of varied openings, doing interviews, studying YouTube courses for tools/skills I might not even need, on top of my current job... I feel like I've absolutely gimped myself. I wish I'd done more studying and upskilling in the past couple years. So much time wasted on stupid musician stuff and hedonistic behavior. God. I just need a direction to pour all my effort into.