She is currently working at a supermarket; didn't have too many options. Up until last month her main focus here was going to ESL classes at a university down the road, but she really wanted to get a job too. It took months of trying just to land the grocery gig. Her English has already gotten noticeably better from having worked there for about a month now. We figure once her English has gotten better, she'll be able to get something better. We don't care if she goes back to school now that she has the job, since she seems to be picking up far more English working than she ever did from the classes.
There is a small Japanese community here, too. My wife started out working at a Japanese restaurant, but it was awful trying to get there since they wanted her to start work right in the middle of rush hour.
Probably better than she's working at the supermarket anyway. My buddy's wife (also Japanese) works at a Japanese bookstore, and her English is much worse than my wife's, despite them having been back in the States for like two years now.
Hang around with black people?
There's this one black chick she works with that's a total jappafag. Loves anime, lent her the FFVII Advent Children movie (which my wife watched, despite having never touched one of the games, and had no idea what the hell was going on), and keeps trying to get my wife to introduce her to a Japanese guy.
