I’ve now been living in Japan for one month and I’m still enjoying myself. Where we’re going to live, Makuhari (幕張), does feel like it’s a long way from downtown but I think I can handle that. The commute, if I really hurry and hit the trains perfectly, is 75 minutes (one hour and fifteen minutes) and that’s quite a bit longer than my old trip to downtown. However, I do break up the morning commute with a stop for coffee and Japanese practice.
One thing that I am really enjoying is that there has been almost no weekend work and everyone in the office says that weekend work is extremely rare. At ISOutsource, evening and weekend work was billed at a higher rate and, since you got a percentage, it was pretty common to do it. I guess I never noticed how much energy that evening and weekend work took. My weekends in Japan end up as quite relaxing and recharging.
As another plus, the office is a business-casual office so I don’t have to wear a suit and tie. That was the one thing from my Seattle lifestyle that I figured I would have to give up. Since the Japanese summer can be pretty brutal, I’m glad that short sleeve shirts are okay and suit jackets can be left in the closet.
I guess I’m still in the early part of “cultural adjustment”, though. I’ll have to write again in a couple of months to be sure.
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