Japan has excellent public transport, and my potential boss in Hawaii said she'd drive me to and from work every day once she found out I was legally blind.
Hawaii has solid public transit as well, depending on the island. I think I'd consider public transit(or at least walkability) to be a major factor because I personally feel really trapped if I have to rely on daily rides from someone.
Hawaii had been considering a nasty Internet bill requiring providers to log all web browsing history for all customers for two years. But they just changed their minds, so I guess I won't hold that against them.
If you're wanting to use your summer co-workers as a possible future job reference, if you don't go back after graduating (but go somewhere else in the U.S.), you'll probably want to go with Hawaii. Just because you're fluent in Japanese doesn't mean your future prospective employer is, and they'll have an easier time talking to the Hawaii folks.
They both sound pretty good, though. Flip a coin if it comes down to that.
If you're wanting to use your summer co-workers as a possible future job reference, if you don't go back after graduating (but go somewhere else in the U.S.), you'll probably want to go with Hawaii. Just because you're fluent in Japanese doesn't mean your future prospective employer is, and they'll have an easier time talking to the Hawaii folks.
Embassy work is conducted in the language of the country the embassy represents, not the local language. It's the US embassy located in Japan.
Granted, it would enable me to be able to use my Japanese, and I have all of my friends fom college not too far away. My junior year roommate was from Fukuoka.
It turns out they are, but I did not previously know this.
bummer.
Divisionten: Okay, I had shit backwards last night. I still think the embassy sound better on a resume than the DoD. Granted the DoD sounds more immediately impressive, but...well... let's just say it conjures up negative feelings from some folks even within America. Hey, what do I know? The embassy just sound better.
A resident of Japan working at the Department of Defense in Hawaii. No thanks. I'd rather not have another Pearl Harbor.
Too dark?
But yeah, in seriousness, the Hawaiian job sounds like a better bet if it's just for resume building. I mean, helping to take down the largest free nation on the planet through spying and sabotage would look great to many countries. North Korea. China. Russia.
Fawful, you DO realize I'm not Japanese, right? Just because I went to college in Japan doesn't make me Japanese. Haven't you seen my photo in the Pictures thread?
Fawful, you DO realize I'm not Japanese, right? Just because I went to college in Japan doesn't make me Japanese. Haven't you seen my photo in the Pictures thread?
Oooh hey... embassy. That's much more prestigious. I guess something depends on the career path you have in mind too. Are you interested in joining the Foreign Service (and how would you feel about probable posts to less-than-nice countries)?
Oooh hey... embassy. That's much more prestigious. I guess something depends on the career path you have in mind too. Are you interested in joining the Foreign Service (and how would you feel about probable posts to less-than-nice countries)?
As for the "probable posts to less-than-nice countries"- the extra benefits you get are equivalent to a military deployment, so the benefits are good enough that unless you specifically asked for a post like that (iraq, etc.) there are enough people who want them that you won't be assigned one otherwise.
As for the "probable posts to less-than-nice countries"- the extra benefits you get are equivalent to a military deployment, so the benefits are good enough that unless you specifically asked for a post like that (iraq, etc.) there are enough people who want them that you won't be assigned one otherwise.
That's awesome. I wouldn't want to go to Iraq, but somewhere like Rwanda? Sure (I found Kigali to be surprisingly cosmopolitan). A very dear friend is working in a government post in Honiara at the moment, and she has the most incredible stories. In another life I would have LOVED to work in foreign affairs.
I say Japan. I've never been to Hawaii, but I have been to Japan and if I could speak enough Japanese to do more than compliment the food or could find a job that fits my particular area of expertise, I would move there as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, I happen to already live in the capital for jobs of my major, so I must stay.
I hope it doesn't pass. Darknet is a tedious workaround. It's like IRC and Usenet of old. Still, its decentralized nature makes censorship impossible and even if it becomes illegal to access, who fucking cares? Let's see them find and arrest everyone who uses it. If no one gets hurt by it, why is it a law worth following? Answer: it isn't.
I do believe enforcement will be country specific.... so it depends how hard each country wants to press. Agreeing and doing something about it are two different things. Canada has been on board since the beginning and I can tell you, we wont be doing much more about it than we already are with copyright infringement. Might take down high traffic illegal sites, but I seriously doubt any individuals will be targeted.
Fair-use laws will remain intact even with this. I'm not too worried, personally.
We're in America, and so it will probably hit as hard and as often as possible. Oh well, I've got my stockpile of IP addresses and I guess I should try to figure out how to use proxies that aren't affiliated with my campus. Either that or I can try to catch up on my IRL stuff instead.
Fuck the police. Soon the only fun way to browse the web will be illegal. Half the laws are bullshit anyway though and it's victimless, so who the hell cares? Read up, gain the technical proficiency and disobey the bloody fascists. Remember: it's not a crime until you get caught.
Well, that was... interesting. My choices are APAN in Hawaii or the State Department... in Washington DC. Huh. The other two who got state and got replies the same time as me both got Japan but I didn't.
Both positions are similar and computer intensive, so I'll need to brush up on my C++ again. I think I'll go with Washington. Better contact choices and a full work schedule, where as Hawaii is only 20 per week.
I don't want DivvyTen to work in Washington! I hate pretty much the entire power structure in that wretched city and regard the US government as the biggest threat to American freedom since the Nazis (godwinned). Don't work for those assholes!
I don't want DivvyTen to work in Washington! I hate pretty much the entire power structure in that wretched city and regard the US government as the biggest threat to American freedom since the Nazis (godwinned). Don't work for those assholes!
As a Jew who had a number of her great aunts and uncles killed by the Holocaust concentration camps, Pants...
Footbullet: redefined. A thousand pardons, as I did not mean to offend at all. I merely wanted to illustrate how increasingly fascist the US government is becoming. To invoke the Nazis in this allegory, however, was a bit over the line in retrospect. I apologize profusely.
As a Jew who had a number of her great aunts and uncles killed by the Holocaust concentration camps, Pants...
I doubt he thought about it, mostly because it is a thing he said. Sometimes I'm not sure if he actually communicates so much as he radiates overblown anger and frustration in the form of the english language.
Also, to be entirely fair, as horrible as what happened within the German borders was, it technically didn't have much to do with being a threat to American freedom, which is what he was referring to. Granted, what they did was horrible from a HUMAN perspective, a universal one that is far more important than and terrible than American freedom(and as such is a topic not to be taken lightly), but from his original standpoint the holocaust technically has nothing to do with his statement.
I don't want DivvyTen to work in Washington! I hate pretty much the entire power structure in that wretched city and regard the US government as the biggest threat to American freedom since the Nazis (godwinned). Don't work for those assholes!
I more view the US government as that grumpy old man who yells at the kids to get off his lawn after they've started an intense game of croquet. My allegory is better because the old man can yell all he wants, and maybe call those kids' parents, but they aren't going to get off his lawn. Maybe they'll just come back and play croquet at night, or when the old man is preoccupied with something else, like paying the bills.
In reality, the old man could have just saved himself the trouble by never building the interne--I mean lawn in the first place. But it's done so he just has to figure out a way to keep the grass growing even when people are stepping on it all the time. Thing is, it looks like the old man is really just considering bulldozing the lot and putting a cactus garden in its place.
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From what you've said, there really wouldn't be much of a choice for me. You'd have to separate me from the Hawaii offer with a crowbar.
It turns out they are, but I did not previously know this.
If you're wanting to use your summer co-workers as a possible future job reference, if you don't go back after graduating (but go somewhere else in the U.S.), you'll probably want to go with Hawaii. Just because you're fluent in Japanese doesn't mean your future prospective employer is, and they'll have an easier time talking to the Hawaii folks.
They both sound pretty good, though. Flip a coin if it comes down to that.
Granted, it would enable me to be able to use my Japanese, and I have all of my friends fom college not too far away. My junior year roommate was from Fukuoka.
bummer.
Divisionten: Okay, I had shit backwards last night. I still think the embassy sound better on a resume than the DoD. Granted the DoD sounds more immediately impressive, but...well... let's just say it conjures up negative feelings from some folks even within America. Hey, what do I know? The embassy just sound better.
Fawful, you DO realize I'm not Japanese, right? Just because I went to college in Japan doesn't make me Japanese. Haven't you seen my photo in the Pictures thread?
It's a disguise to take on the government.
As for the "probable posts to less-than-nice countries"- the extra benefits you get are equivalent to a military deployment, so the benefits are good enough that unless you specifically asked for a post like that (iraq, etc.) there are enough people who want them that you won't be assigned one otherwise.
That's awesome. I wouldn't want to go to Iraq, but somewhere like Rwanda? Sure (I found Kigali to be surprisingly cosmopolitan). A very dear friend is working in a government post in Honiara at the moment, and she has the most incredible stories. In another life I would have LOVED to work in foreign affairs.
Thank me later.
Unfortunately, I happen to already live in the capital for jobs of my major, so I must stay.
But Japan. Definitely.
Sigh. Now that ACTA's passed, we soon won't be able to do this again...
Fair-use laws will remain intact even with this. I'm not too worried, personally.
Both positions are similar and computer intensive, so I'll need to brush up on my C++ again. I think I'll go with Washington. Better contact choices and a full work schedule, where as Hawaii is only 20 per week.
There are a lot of power-hungry people in DC, though, so do your best to avoid being sucked in with that crowd.
Like Braniac, Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Mongul and Amanda Waller.
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As a Jew who had a number of her great aunts and uncles killed by the Holocaust concentration camps, Pants...
Also, to be entirely fair, as horrible as what happened within the German borders was, it technically didn't have much to do with being a threat to American freedom, which is what he was referring to. Granted, what they did was horrible from a HUMAN perspective, a universal one that is far more important than and terrible than American freedom(and as such is a topic not to be taken lightly), but from his original standpoint the holocaust technically has nothing to do with his statement.
...Wow I feel terrible having just typed that.
Oh, calm down. You can just travel to your destination by balloon.
I more view the US government as that grumpy old man who yells at the kids to get off his lawn after they've started an intense game of croquet. My allegory is better because the old man can yell all he wants, and maybe call those kids' parents, but they aren't going to get off his lawn. Maybe they'll just come back and play croquet at night, or when the old man is preoccupied with something else, like paying the bills.
In reality, the old man could have just saved himself the trouble by never building the interne--I mean lawn in the first place. But it's done so he just has to figure out a way to keep the grass growing even when people are stepping on it all the time. Thing is, it looks like the old man is really just considering bulldozing the lot and putting a cactus garden in its place.