I was literally the best qualified person in the prefecture to do my tax returns and it was still a poor decision. Find an accountant.
"Wow that's bold." No, it's not. Here's my Fermi estimate:
2 million people in Gifu
0.1% of population is an accountant-equivalent
5% of accountant-equivalents in Gifu are bilingual
10% of those are comfortable with international taxation
None of other 9 people speak software.
2 million people in Gifu
0.1% of population is an accountant-equivalent
5% of accountant-equivalents in Gifu are bilingual
10% of those are comfortable with international taxation
None of other 9 people speak software.
Notice how quickly playing the Venn diagram game puts you in a job market of 1? This is very useful for differentiating your offering and charging more (TM). There's ~3 million software developers in the US and that number falls of scary fast when you start adding things.
I usually don't advocate adding technologies to increase the selectivity, since clients/employers can always pick technologies that aren't selective (for that reason specifically!). Rather, add capabilities/specialties/etc.
The original thesis for my career plan was "There are probably less than 1,000 software engineers in the US with useful Japanese proficiency." I still think that is approximately true, and it would keep me gainfully employed, but there exist many easier options.
There are a lot of commercially relevant X and Y such that the set of all software developers in your country who can both X and Y starting tomorrow fits around a dinner table, without X or Y being "top-of-the-industry" levels of skill.
