Around this time next year, I’m going to volunteer overseas.
I had been vaguely thinking about doing a different job in my 40s, when the second half of my career begins. My current job is a domestic bureaucratic job, so I thought that my next job would be a job where I could interact with people overseas. In particular, my country's economic power has been steadily declining recently, and I wanted to be able to earn foreign currency, so I thought about working overseas.
However, my English skills are quite low, and my TOEIC score was around 400 points. I also found out that I needed connections with companies to obtain a working visa in a developed country. When it comes to learning English and looking for a job, it's so far in the future that I can't even imagine when I'll be able to start working.
At that time, I found an overseas volunteer dispatch program. This program is run by a government agency, and the government provides travel expenses to the dispatch destination and living expenses there, and also provides language training for the dispatch. It seemed like a great program that was free and would allow me to make connections overseas.
I applied for an overseas volunteer dispatch program in July of this year and was accepted in October. I will receive pre-dispatch language training from September of next year, and travel to my dispatch country in December.
For that reason, I will be retiring from the company I have worked for for over 10 years, and taking the next step towards my career at the end of next year.
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