[jasonbvr]

Wow, that is pretty crazy. But honestly it is probably the only way to run an eikaiwa. Eikaiwas are not going to be busy all the time. Look at it this way, you get the bored housewives in the morning, then the little kids who get out of elementaries and kindergartens after lunch, and then in the evening there are the school kids and people doing it after work. It is just a fact of life in eikaiwas that you will work irregular hours. Also you end up working a lot of weekends and some holidays because this is when people have time to go.

If you ever end up working in an eikaiwa, the best you can really hope for is the guarantee that your two days off a week are guaranteed to be back to back to make a type of weekend.

Also forgot to mention, you cannot be hired by JET from within Japan. You can apply and then fly home for the interview. This is at least how I understand it. I may be wrong.