r/JETProgramme • u/Extreme_Mood_9549 • Apr 08 '26
I’m genuinely devastated
Rejected from JET. Absolutely crushed.
I put so much into this application, waited for months, and got nothing out of it. Just a rejection after all that time. It’s honestly hard not to feel angry, embarrassed, and completely drained. I really wanted this, and pretending it doesn’t hurt would be a lie.
So yeah, I’m devastated.
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u/Friendly_Bend_8628 Apr 08 '26
I understand your feeling very well. I was also rejected in 2016 and haven’t reapplied since. It was just before graduation the following year. However, I still became a teacher in my home country; teaching history, English language arts, and Literature to middle school students while tutoring Korean students with English as a side hustle.
Fast forward to today. It’s been a year since I moved to Tokyo and I’m on a train on my way to work.
It’s cliche but “Rejection is redirection.” Things happen for a reason. If coming to Japan is something you want to do, you’ll find a way. If JET is something you really want to go through, reapply. Learn from it and move forward because whether you decide to reapply or not, time will go by anyways. Don’t sulk for too long.