Avantages
- This job gets you into Japan and allows you to live in and experience a different culture. So that’s already a plus. - I loved my schools. I had the most amazing kids and teachers and enjoyed working with them. - I really liked my town a lot. Even though I felt lonely sometimes, everyone there was very welcoming.
Inconvénients
- My biggest gripe with this company is that they didn’t get me the medical help I needed when I needed it. I was severely sick in Japan almost immediately when I got there, and Interac brushed off my worries. My sickness was on and off for about 4 months before they finally decided I needed to be sent to the hospital because I had missed too many days at work. It turns out I had tonsillitis, and if they hadn’t caught it, I would’ve had to have surgery. They didn’t seem to care about my health until I started not being able to go to work. That is what bugged me the most and was one of the main reasons I left. - Undue stress on their employees. My BOE didn’t understand that I had missed so many days because of Interac’s neglect to help me get to a hospital and diagnose what was going on with me, so they got upset. Several times, some of the managers and staff would ask to meet me in my town, and then basically tell me to suck it up, because they were going to lose the contract with that town. I had all intentions to finish my contract and I did successfully, but I became sick from the stress and had to hide it because I didn’t want to upset Interac or the BOE. - Poor communication/not knowing who to communicate information to. - Staff that didn’t know what they were doing/saying. I had trouble with being made to pay double pension when I first arrived and it took them 1 - 2 months to resolve that. There were also several instances where they told me one thing and the opposite ended up happening. - The pay was not the best. Livable, but it doesn’t really allow for anything else besides rent, bills, and food. I would really not recommend this company to anyone.