Izakaya

I had a part time job as waiter in an Izakaya. Izakaya is Japanese style bar. You can eat a lot of foods and alcohol drink. For example Sashimi, Sushi, Pizza, Spaghetti, noodles, fried rice, fresh vegetables, Yakiatori, Beer, Wine, Sake (Japanese alcohol), Sour and juice. I worked here for a year. I could get money an hourly wage of 980-1500yen. My shop opens from 5:oo pm to 5:00 am. Sometimes I had to work 11hours. It was very hard.
My favorite food is Yakiudon(焼きうどん). It’s kind of fried noodles. A recipe for Yakiudon, some vegetables fry, then put Udon(it’s already boiled) and special sauce. It’s ready. Do you think it’s easy? But it’s delicious!! My favorite drink is Namasibori kiwi sour(生絞りキウイサワー). It looks like kiwi juice.
You have to be careful about ‘Otoshi(お通し)’ when you go to Izakaya. Otoshi is a small dish. Why do you get Otoshi? It means ‘please wait till cooking comes.’ But Otoshi isn’t free. It cost is 300-600yen. It’s expensive. If you don’t need Otoshi, you should tell staff. Some Izakaya is OK, but some Izakaya isn’t OK. Enjoy your time in Izakaya when you come to Japan.It’s Izakaya’s homepage. You can see menu.
http://www.watami.co.jp

My other face (^_^*)

I have had two kinds of part time-job.

Previously, I worked at a jeans shop as a shop staff. Shop staff have a lot of working. To sell jeans, I memorized about them. For example, shape, material, maker, size, price, and so on. According to customers, I found the best jeans for them. It was very difficult. But I learned how to provide services for several people. In addition, the shop dealt with not only jeans, but also casual clothes. How beautiful we display clothes on counters influences gross sales. I had to fold clothes quickly and clearly. Sometimes, customers asked me to show them a nice coordinate with jeans which they bought. It was like a test of my fashion sense! I enjoyed that feeling like playing dress-up doll. When the customer who wear clothing that I had chosen came to the shop. I can't forget the happiness.

Now, I work at a Western restaurant as a waitress at a station building. I fell different difficulties from working at jeans shop. This photo is "Hamburg steak set". I have to provide service for all customers. Sometimes I am confused serving some dishes for customers who sit different table at a time. And It is hard for me to serve appetizing dishes when I am hungry. But the happy times working at a restaurant are when customers say to me "it was so delicious!" and "GOTISOUSAMA（ごちそうさま）!" (It is said after eating something.)

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What I learned by working would be effective for our future. I want to enjoy and to learn more!!

Mcdonald's

I have three part-time jobs: as a waitress at McDonald's', as a tutor, and a staff of concert.

At McDonald's', I have worked part-time for one and a half year. At first, I made a lot of mistakes, such as forgetting preparing products or condiments, I got used to it eventually and now, I am a part-time manager of McDonald's store where I work. It is hard for me to work at McDonald's' because a lot of customers come to buy foods again and again. But sometimes I feel happy that I get customers' smile. I love to eat McDonald's' in spite of knowing that it is never healthy to eat at McDonald's. Do you like McDonald's'? In Japan, we have Japanese original food, which is called "teriyaki burger". It is teriyaki sauce taste which is Japanese original sauce. It is popular for customers who are from not only Japan but also foreign country.

I am a tutor, too. I teach math and English to a senior and a sophomore of junior high school students. My students are soooo cute and a little sassy, so I enjoy teaching them with some chatting. Although I can make money for 2200 yen per hours, I have to quite this part-time job because I'm going to go to Australia to study for 10 months.

Recently, I started to work part-time as a staff of concerts. This part-time-job invites us irregularly, so I have done this part-time-job once. Then I helped music concert and saw a Japanese famous singer, Segawa Eiko, who is a popular enka singer and sometimes appears on Japanese TV. "enka" is a Japanese traditional song.

Precious experiences☆

I have two part-time jobs now. One is a temp worker, the other is a tutor. I don't have a lot of time to work because I have a six period class(from 6:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.!!) and a club activity three times a week. I am soooo busy now.（；_；） But I have to get the cost of living. So I found two part-time jobs that have high hourly wages. I will introduce them to you.


Do you know temp workers? Temp workers don't decide one place to work. I work with people who I don't know in various places every time. I often work at some wedding ceremony halls as a waitress. I decided this part-time job because I could work part-time whenever I want to do(only once a month is OK) and the hourly wage was high!! I can earn a hourly wage of 1000 yen. But the job was harder than I expected. First, wedding receptions are so formal. So I can't make any mistakes such as spilling drink over the guests, breaking dishes, forgetting the order. People who work there are very nervous. Second, the dishes used at a wedding reception are heavy. We have to carry three big dishes at a time. I always have muscular pain the following day. However there are also happy things at the job. Wedding receptions always move me. Brides are so beautiful, and a newly married couple look happy. Every time I work at the wedding reception, want to marry soon!!(*´Ｕ｀*) I put a image of two people wearing a costume of a waitress(waiter). I always wear similar clothes!! The image is by http://www.servicewear.com/item_page/ITS-AP-042.php


I have the other job as a tutor. I teach a junior high school student all subjects once a week. I can earn a hourly wage of 2000 yen!! I mainly teach English and Math because she is poor at them. When I was a junior high school student, I didn't like Math and was also poor at it. So I can understand her feeling very well!! I teach the subjects as I talk my experience. I think it's important for teaching. Then I found it was difficult to teach another person even if I understand well. So I can learn many things that I didn't know by teaching. But I teach a third grade student, that is to say she is a applicant for a high school. I am anxious whether she passes entrance examinations of high school.


Part-time jobs are hard for students. But we can find how hard it is to earn money and experience working in the society. I think the most important work for children is learning!! So we should work part-time ordinarily（＾＾；）

(-UωU-)♪

I work as a part-time job as a waitress in a coffee shop named Art coffee. It is one of the coffee chains in Japan. So, you can also find Art coffee in other prefectures. I have worked at this coffee shop in Kofu for about one and a half year. I like staff members and shop's atmosphere. It isn't so large and not so crowded. So, I bet you can enjoy the taste of coffee and your conversation to the full as listening to nice jazz( ~o~)♪



We change menues depend on time. In the morning, there are three types of morning sets. In the left side, there is a picture of these sets replicas. Don't you think these look so real ? These sets cost only 500yen with drink( coffee, tea or orange juice) I think these sets are reasonable. Actually, we have many patrons to eat these sets. Most of them come to our coffee shop every day. Indeed, some of them have their special menu. I remembered all these special menues. One of them is old woman. She is over 90. I think she thrives on coming to our shop and to meet staff members. I am happy to meet her too.
　There is a discount prices for staff members. We can eat any kind of food on the menu for 300yen and drink for 50yen. This system is very very helpful for me. I think it is common that there are some discount prices in food shops in Japan.
Our coffee shop opens from 7:30am to 9:00pm. Sometimes, I work from 7:00. It is early, but like working the early morning except in the middle of winter, because I can feel refreshed. I work about three times in a week, especially weekend. I usually work for 8 or 9 hours per a day. I have worked from 7:00 to 9:30 one time. It means I worked for 12 and a half hours in a day.(I had one and a half hours free time.) It was very hard, but I felt a sense of achievement when I did it.
I enjoy working at this coffee shop. If there is oppotunity to come to Kofu, please drop on my coffee shop(●＾□＾）ｐ”

Izakaya

I work part-time as a waitress at Izakaya. Are you familiar with Izakaya? It's Japanese-style pubs which are the most popular drinking place in Japan. I have started the job for about 2 years and I will continue the job until graduate. I serve dishes and drinks, also make coktails.

I like my job because meeting and talking with many people are enjoynable. Sometimes regular comes and then we talk about these days. making many kind of coktails are also fun.

There are also many kind of food, for example, cold tofu, green soybeans, sashimi, yakitori (grilled chicken), fried chicken, grilled fish, and so on. Though standers were Japanese food in the past, Western dishes such as pizzas are also becoming popular nowadays same reason as drinks. It means that we can choose the foods from the menu as we like.

And now I show how Japanese behave in Izakaya. First, they are served a rolled hot hand towel and otoshi which is like a small appetizer, after we have a seat or order some drink. Otoshi means that guests can wait without annoying at late serve. Generally, they have a glass of draft beer at the beginning. Second, they can choose and order a variety of snacks or dishes in the menu. They usually order twice or three times without order at the same time. Normally, they spend about 2 or 3 hours in there, and pay 3000 yen per person.

I recommend you to go izakaya if you come to Japan. You must be having a good time!

How hard English teacher is!!

Is it common for university students to do part time job in the U.S. ?? In Japan, it's very common to do it. Almost all Japanese students have some part time jobs or have done them before. Among the students, these kinds of jobs are very popular, restaurants like McDonald's, tutors, and temporary jobs just for one day like advertising something new (cell phone, food). In my case, I have two jobs. One is teaching English as a tutor, and the other is working at Starbucks coffee. Both of them are very interesting and worthwhile!! I love them.


Today, I will talk about my tutor job. I started it last September, so I've taught English to my student, who is a junior high school student, for 15 months.The occasion I got the suitable job was that my professor asked me to teach English for EIKEN(英語　検定　eigo kentei) which is one of the world's most widely administered language tests, and also popular in Japan as a official exam to his acquaintance's daughter.

Immediately, I answered "Yes!", I started to go her house to teach English for its 2nd grade test. At first, I taught mainly grammar and vocabulary to her, after that we tried some workbooks that was made an examination in the past. Her English skill dramatically improved, and in last January, she passed it! And also, I passed pre-first grade exam at the same time!! We did well, especially my student, I think.Now she is challenging to pass pre-first grade, so we are struggling with EIKEN together.


By the way, I go her house in once a week so far.But from next month, it's going to change the date into twice a week . An hourly wage of 1500yen, I teach English to her for 2~3 hours. Her house is close to my apartment, so it's easy to go. I really enjoy this part time job!!

The hard work

I worked as the part timer of the assistant for moving at the moving company that it's famous for the mark of the panda temporarily in last spring.

Sometimes I remember I still sometimes remember those days. I went to the work 4 or 5days a week. It was really hard .

A moving company began to work at 7:00.am everyday, and finish was 10:00.pm when it was late. I worked mainly within the Yamanashi prefecture, and sometimes I also worked at Hachiouji-city in Tokyo.

Moreover, my day off that it selected in advance lost suddenly because of the work sometimes....(Ｔ_Ｔ)

The main work was helping, to be concentrate, we went to the house of the person who moved with other assistant, and it carried out furniture or a refrigerator, and it was work it did them newly, and it carried it to the new address, and to post those things in the new room.

In addition, it was one of the important work to clean the room of the visitor neatly before carrying out furniture.

As for the thing to carry out, it was various from small tableware to a big closet, and I had to carry those things really carefully, so I always felt really high puressure(^^；), so the work didn't readily progress, and there was it when it was angry at a senior in the days of the beginning and lost some confidence.

But I was able to regain own little by little by having been gradually used to work.

Through this work, I could learn many important things such as a sense of responsibility with working. I think it was very good experience for me.

I don't work part-time now, but if I get a question "Do you want to work as a mover again?" from someone, I would certainly answer "no"!(^^；)

Funky gal !!!

I have a part-time job as a tutor for a high school student. When I met her for the first time, she had enjoyed her summer vacation in 2006. Then her color of hair was pink, though almost all Japanese had black hair!!! And she put on some hair extensions which was a kind of wig heir. Also, she frequented a tanning salon so she had a tanned skin; what we call "gan-guro(ガングロ)". She often said to me, "I don't like this color of skin like Thai people. I'm trying to change my nationality to BLACK PEOPLE by means of tanning!!!", uh she didn't have a will to say disagreeable things. To tell the truth, I thought "Woo, she is very funky! The young people today makes me surprised." I worried about whether I could get along with her or not because I had never connected with this type of people.


However, as time passed, we have appreciated each other gradually. She goes to the school which I have commuted in my high school days so I am a senior of her. This is because we can talk about teachers in the high school and laugh. Moreover, I have a younger brother belonging to the same school and they know each other!!! It's a miracle, isn't is?



I teach her all subjects which she studies except some skills tests. For example, Japanese, politics and economy, and also English. However, she doesn't like studying. She uses cell-phone in her school classes and doesn't take notes. So when we are in the test date, we start judging first what the examination subjects are. Well... please do not ask me how her grades are and my guidance.




Do you have any part-time job?

Wedding Ceremony in the Chapel♡

I'd like to introduce my part-time job.

I have been working at wedding chapel since I was fresh man at University. This was the first job to me. So far, I have ever worked some kind of job, but this wedding job is most attracting job and I have learned many things from there.
My task is wide-ranging. I take charge of assistant of bridal couple in the chapel.
In Japan, it is usual to celebrate in the chapel first, and then people go to reception banquet to have dinner. My affairs are limited only in the chapel. For example, I prepare the some drink, clean up the church, operate the assistants and so on before the ceremony. Actually, I think the main part of task begin when the ceremony starts. I direct the couple to the front of priest and take and give the groves during ceremony.I 'm always too nervous in this time!!

Why I like to work here is because I can see the most wonderful time in the life for people. I think the smile of bride is the most beautiful face in the world. Anytime I go to work, people who get married give me happy!! In addition to this, I like the member of worker very much.

The picture is my chapel inside.