Um, how much longer before you graduate with enough qualifications to get a full-time job?
Whilst the Japan reference, was mildly flippant, @howard posted an awesome thread on here a while back about shopping for basses there. As well as the incredible, and I mean incredible, selection of instruments the Yen is extremely weak against the USD and GBP (go on, tell me you’re not American or British now!), which makes the prices of some things comically cheap.
Here’s the thread:
And here’s the thread of what happened when I went to Japan last month; of potential interest to you is the photos in my third post in the thread, which you can use to compare the prices with what you see at home: