Our Christian group sponcer was a councelor, by the end of it she said the only reason she didn't want to retire was because she loved the group so much.

It is actually really depressing working as a school councelor from what I gather. I mean what do you deal with all day, constantly trying to solve people's problems, and these arn't little problems, and most of the time you can't do anything, becuase well the laws won't let you, and you can't even TELL the kid to do something a lot of the time. You just have to be there for them, it's incredibly hard to deal with and it requires a special kind of person. I dout it's for you from the sounds of it.

I have heard good things about english teaching in Japan though