Head-hunted?

I just got a random phone call from Toyko today. Seems that one of the Semiconductor divisions wants me to attend one of their company presentations happening in Sendai next week. Am I being head hunted? I doubt it because I'm not famous (yet!).

I've registered on a job finding forum in Japan as it is currently job hunting season in Japan to check out my options. My current game plan entails working in Japan for a few years to gain some international experience and then probably making a return move to North America in the future.

The current working culture of Japan is that most people graduating out of universities tend to aim for large corporations for stability. These corporations end up training graduated in trade and in turn providing them with life long employment. This is (was?) the career life of your usual Japanese graduate.

I have already spent 3 weeks at a Japanese corporation known as Sumitomo Bakelite. I've commented about my experiences previously, doing rather boring work for 3 weeks and I have seen what boring work does to people-- it leads to mental decay. Hopefully in my search for a job, I will find an interesting place to work at. Over the next few weeks and months, it will be necessary for me to hash out a general work mind set to accomplish a set of general goals over throughout my working career.

The fundamental premises are:

Rule #1: never get stuck in a dead end job.
Rule #2: observe rule #1.

The long term plan will be to break the work clock-- I don't want to be paid by the hour, I want to be paid for by productivity. This too, I've mentioned previously during my internship post.