Thirty Six Country Jobs

36 country jobs that come to mind:
(Will add more later)

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Wwoofing - Farming in return for room and board. (Some hosts allow families !)

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Forestry Work - If you’ve got some basic Japanese skills and know how to swing an axe, you could do it. Actually, you’d be doing us all a big favor, the hey-fever here is killer !!

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Bounty Hunter - A growing field (Cull Crows, Boar, Monkey, Deer, Bear, and other varmit.) May want to team up with the local old timers. Don’t forget your bright-orange garb, otherwise you may find yourself being the hunted.

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Small/Home English School - work from your country home.

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Nursery Operator - Propagate, grow and market trees, shrubs and perennial plants.

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Composter - Pick-up & compost peoples raw-garbage. Make fertilizer with it. Sell it. May need a kei-truck for this.

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Online Business - Work from your remote country home. Sell whatever. How about forest by-products?

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Gaurdman - These are the traffic directors/flag wavers at road construction sites. There are many !! (I’ve seen a few gaijin wavin’ flags before)

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Nut Collector - All the old-folks do it. If you invested some time in it you could prolly turn a profit.

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Carpentry/fix-it Man - Just declare yourself a 何でも屋(nandemoya) and watch the phone calls role in. You may want to partner with a Japanese and get yourself a kei-truck.

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Village Bicycle Patrol Man - Valunteer work. Lots of riding around on the bicycle with a big ‘Patrol’ sign attached to your front basket. But the villagers may bring basket loads of fresh veg to your doorstep in return. A pretty good deal.

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Septic Man - Cause every country home has a tank that needs to be pumped. Composting used to be the norm, but things have changed.

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Blogger - blog your country experience. Set up those little google ad-sense adverts on your blog and hope somebody clicks on em’.

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Konbini Clerk - convenience stores dot the countryside. A bit of Japanese needed. But remember, they’re closing at exponential rates and may not be your best option.

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Auto Mechanic - fix kei-trucks, tractors, combines, scooters, etc.

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Woodsplitter - Invest in a Logsplitter. Buy cheap wood from forest thinning ops. Split the wood with your logsplitter and sell it. As common energies such as electricity and gas become more and more expensive people may opt for wood instead.

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Gas Station Attendant - exposure to toxic fumes all day may not be your cup of tea though - I don’t know.

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Local Elementary/Middle/High School teacher - May require experience. Plus lots of hard work.

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Translation Work - work form your remote country home. Make contacts and clients by way of phone and internet.

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Log Cabin Builder - Cut em’, stack em’, and sell em’. Okay, so the business isn’t so hot, but there are a few jobs out there.

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Foreign Themed Countryside Amusement Park Personnel -These places, like convenience stores, also dot the country. Find one - they’ll love you.

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Mountain Veg Peddler - Scavenge the woods for mountain veg and mushrooms and then peddle them at your local train station or market. Everyone will love you for it !! Mushrooms take a premium.

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Road Works Construction Crew - Some Japanese needed, preferably curse words. May encounter lotsa second-hand smoke, heavy drinking and on occasion, mob bosses. Other than that, all smiles and hard work.

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Potter - Make pots and stuff.

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Country Artist/Photographer - Share your stuff with the world.

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Sword Maker - Find a sensei, learn to forge swords. Maybe he’ll let your family stay with his. If you make good uns’ maybe some people will buy them.

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Country Author - Write books about the country and sell em’. Intrestingly enough, people have an interest.

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Roof Thatcher Dude - I dunno, I’ve just always wanted to be this. Must be hard, but surely rewarding

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Local Tour Guide - Invite those urban gaijin/Japanese out to the sticks, show em’ around.

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Beekeeping - Honey!! It’s a hot commodity. Or you could raise Japanese 蜂の子, (hachi no ko). They’re also hot !! Just make sure not to set up shop under Japan’s so-called Cell-phone Eco-towers エコ・タワー. It’ll mess with the bees’ receptors !!

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Organic Farmer - Because we really need em’ !! Stay away from too many loans and make a little money. Hard work, but at least can help feed the urbanites.

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Auto-Yatai - Be the first gaijin in your area to roll the county roads selling hot sweet potatoes out the back of your kei-truck. Would help if you had a kei-truck w/ loud speaker on roof and a cheap potato source. Theoretically, you could double this biz up with your farming business.

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Snow Removal- Drive tractors on a winter road. Get paid.

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Homesteader - Buy an old house with a bit of land. Plant a garden and keep some livestock and fowl and Live a 100% self-self-sufficient lifestyle. Not easy, but potentially rewarding.

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Kei Truck Tourer - Tour the country by Kei truck. Keep the dashboard stocked with onigiri and hi-lite tabacco. Remember to make a little money along the way.

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Forest Ranger - Doh !! Japan doesn’t have this profesion. Can you believe it? 80% woods and no Forest Rangers. Actually, this is kinda cool.