- 900 yen for pictures for my resume (terrible, were never needed). As I was taking the pictures, the curtain blew open, ruining one of my precious shots. I also got suckered into using the useless “soft-focus, beautiful skin” function, bumping the price from 800 to 900 yen.
- 30 yen printing fees
- 3980 yen for two silk sleeveless blouses from Uniqlo
- 350 yen for train travel to recruiter
- 5340 yen for a blazer from Gap I never wore
- 1170 yen in train travel to the company
- 820 yen for a taxi ride when I walked the complete opposite direction I was supposed to and realized 10 minutes before my final interview
- 1620 yen for a book on Japanese test preparation for interview tests (Japanese, English, math, and a personality quiz). Bombed the test anyway! No one mentioned it in any subsequent interview.
- 1050 yen for a calculator for the math portion of above-mentioned test
- 1780 yen on phone calls with the recruiter + the surprise of learning that my new cellphone plan had no free talk time
- 2045 yen for a pencil skirt from Uniqlo
19085 yen later, I received a formal offer and tendered my resignation! To new beginnings \o/
