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I actually went to a JET seminar. A lot of the members that spoke there clearly states "JET is not a career. It's just something for the experience" There's also a cool down period between assignments.

In terms of USD, I have a friend who is in it now and gets paid around like 24k per year equivalent. JET is not meant for those who want to are "money focused." It's more of take the low pay, live in japan, and teach kids...that about sums it up.

Agreed. In my experience living in Tokyo during my college oversea experience, teenagers will try to their best in broken English to answer you. Only when things get technical and have to be explained is when they throw in all japanese with english key words. If they attended a school with a lot of international students you will have some that are almost in par with you aside from minor accents.

I have also private tutored some older generations. They tend to be more enthusiastic about learning it however, lack the time to do so as japanese work life is extremely stressful. They usually learn it as +1 for them at work.

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I went to the very 1st Engadget party-gathering at HIRO New York couple of years back. We were told there would be food and drinks offered. After waiting for 2 hrs in the NYC's freezing winter night, we finally made it in. We didn't see any food only to be told they were all out....I was quite upset about it since my group and I were definitely between 60 - 70th people on line out of 300+. I asked around for feedback, everyone told me "they only served cheese and dried raisins, nothing special only only 3 large plates of it was served. Each person's individual plate gets 2 pieces of cheese and a few raisin." I didn't expect much but still not even a single nib of it being consider the 1st initial groups to enter was quite a bad impression. At least I got the free 1 drink voucher, but that's just a piece of ticket that they rip off a giant roll of it...clearly there's thousands of those but limited 1 per person. As for the party/gathering itself, there wasn't much to see, just a couple of new cell phones some other small techs(don't remember) at the front of the room. Hell, I didn't get to get a bag of brochures/posters/small gifts. Everything was out.

TL;DR Walked into a large ball room with loud music, very little tech displays, 1 free drink voucher, that's all. 1st Engadget party in HIRO NYC was a disappointment in my opinion.

What did you guys do to improve it after?

I heard that police have a unwritten "quota" to do arrest; to show that they are making the public a safer place. On top of that within the police there is also an unwritten threshold, by that I mean your team all tends to arrest fairly the same amount of ppl on average...no one goes "above and beyond" the unwritten limit. This way it won't make members look bad who didn't make the quota...therefore the numbers are always kept at a achievable medium.

What are your thoughts on this?