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BIG AMBITIONA SAYONARA, JAPAN

et’s rewind six years’ worth of footage. It’s 2016, I’ve just done four years of university, earning a bachelor’s and a few other certificates. You’d think that would be enough to get a job right? Not really. Well, not in New Zealand anyway. After many, many failed applications to Seek, I managed to score an interview with the JET programme, easily the best way to get my 23-year-old self to Japan. Within a few months, I had flown 9000km and landed

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