conversation: User (AU78): "I'm a 19 year old Japanese male living in Tokyo, Japan. I grew up in the US though and have citizenship of both countries. Fluent in English, half fluent in Japanese.\n\nFor a variety of reasons I'm dropping out of college after one year. Got to leave the dorm in 30 days. Unemployed and looking for a job. No friends or family who could take me in.  \n\nI have no long term goals right now, because I'm not really sure what I want to do in life. Right now I'm focusing on the short term, getting a job, housing, food/water, etc. The necessities. Right now I'm focusing on how to solve the issue of housing. $1000 is nothing, maybe 1.5 months of rent at a sharehouse. So I'm looking at other options, which include living in a storage unit, living in a tent, living in a sleeping bag at parks, living in a car, etc. There are problems to all these options though, like the fact I cant drive, living in a storage unit is illegal, that there aren't many places to set up a tent free and legally, etc. I've also been considering the US or French military, but I'm not sure if the military is the right path for me. (In addition I dont have my SS or birth certificate which are necessary for joining the US military, which is a slight complication). Do you guys have any advice on what path I should take? Thanks.\n\n\nEdit: Thank you for all the great advice. I'll be spending the next 2 weeks looking and applying to jobs non stop. Thanks to you guys I got a lot of new ideas on the kind of jobs I should apply for. Also got great advice on how to find cheap housing. I'll post an update in a month. Thank you again!"
  Self: "You can always get copies of your birth certificate and social security card, if you need to. And you can get a temporary passport to travel back to the States, if that is necessary.\n\nYou need to decide where you want to live first. If you want to stay in Japan, you need advice from indigenous Japanese about your situation. If you want to come back to the States, you need to focus on that. \n\nWhere do you have the best support group? "
  User (AU78): "I have a valid US passport so that's no problem. But overall I prefer Japan and would like to stay here. However support and job opportunity wise America might be the better choice, because I can join the military and I'm fluent in English. But then again Japan supposedly has a shortage of workers so that might play into my favor."
  NotMyHersheyBar (NotMyHersheyBar): "You may find more teaching opportunities and just an easier time in general in South Korea. My friend does have a degree in English, but she found a job very easily in South Korea. They really really desperately want teachers, and Seoul is a larger and more laidback city than Tokyo or Kyoto. Just a thought."
  