Please tell me about temples and monks

Hello. I'm a Jodo sect monk.
① I think most small temples are basically chief priests and their families.
② What is a complete ascetic practice
First, search for a monk who will become your mentor → Tokudo (become a Buddhist disciple) under that mentor and monk → study and practice at the dojo or university of each denomination → once you have both, you will finally receive the last line of each sect at the head temple. The content is for each denomination. So, for the time being, I'll become a monk.
③ I think there are times when you become a head temple employee, or if it's a big temple, you'll be hired there.
④ I think they often live separately.
⑤ I'm from home. Somehow I came into contact with Buddhism, and I felt like I was naturally walking on the path to becoming a monk.
For this reason, or rather, I feel like I was led there by chance. It was probably that kind of Buddha relationship. I've always thought that hereditary succession of religion is strange, so I think the way of thinking is slightly different from the hereditary one. Unlike hereditary people, it is difficult to make various arrangements on your own, but recently there has been an increase in the number of monks coming from home. I belong to a temple and live on my own. It's a lifestyle where you work in the morning and evening, do the work you're asked to do, and study the parts you're still lacking. In the past, people often worked part-time with school teachers, but now there are probably almost none. The school teachers are too busy right now, and they're doing their best just at school. However, the number of memorial services etc. has decreased due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and the number of temples looking for work to maintain their lives is also increasing.
Is that what it feels like? When the foundation of Buddhism is in the mind, I feel that the movement of the mind becomes flexible.
Namu Amida Buddha

① There may also be regional differences
If the number of parishioners is 500 or less
I think the chief priest alone will work for the law.
If there are many parishioners even in small temples
There may be monks other than the chief priest.

② How to become a monk is a “degree”
In order to become a chief priest, “a teacher (the name differs depending on the denomination”)
You need this qualification.
That is the minimum qualification, and they name monks
There is no end to the practice of Buddhism.

③ The number of parishioners is small
If you can't manage a temple with just an offering, you will work part-time.
If the number of parishioners is too large to work alone as the chief priest
Other than that, I also hire legal clerks (government priests).
It's usually hereditary
If you can afford to run a temple
The heir will probably work for the law as a deputy chief priest
If you can't afford it
I often work for other jobs until the chief priest retires.

④ Who is a legal practitioner
Are you commuting from home
You can rent a room that looks like a company house.
What is a state like living
There are probably few in this day and age.

⑤ The former chief priest of Jotsuji Temple did not have children
A successor had not been decided.
Listen to that story
I, the nephew of the former chief priest, ran for office.
I was an office worker until then
I'm disgusted with my quota job
I left my job and got a new job.
At first, I didn't have any lofty ambitions
As I come into contact with Buddhism
I am grateful for the wonder that led me to this path.　

① The only small temple is the chief priest and his family.

② At least, it is necessary to complete (finish) the line called Kago at a specialized dojo, receive Denpo Kancho, and pass the Motoyama teacher certification.

③ I think it would be difficult for a roku monk to take on other tasks.

④ Isn't it different depending on the temple? Recently, I've only heard about large temples at the Motoyama level for live-in.

⑤
I started out in the Shingon sect and became a monk by practicing ascetic practices from the general public.

Once the ascetic training is over, people from the temple can return to their own temple and work as monks, or they can return to their own temple after doing temple work for a few years as government monks at a large temple.
The chief priest or deputy chief priest of a temple is almost always a person related to the chief priest of the temple.

Basically, female monks are very rare.

If a woman starts out of the public, she cannot become a temple chief priest unless she is lucky enough to enter an empty temple or build her own temple.

Therefore, it is not recommended that women aim to become nuns as occupations.

As far as I am concerned, I became a monk while learning in such a way that esoteric Buddhism is very fascinating, interesting, and motivational.
As a result, I realized that monks who don't have a temple are often dealt with quite a bit by the organization or the world, and there aren't many places to play an active role as monks.

At one point, I participated in many groups thinking that there would be a place to play an active role if it were a cross-sectarian volunteer gathering, but even within that, I felt quite different between the chief priest and deputy chief priest of the temple and the person that only Shijoji is connected to the temple, and I felt alienated.

So when it comes to talking, I go back to the beginning, and even if it's not a temple, I learn, refine, and pray if I have more opportunities, I enjoy Esoteric Buddhism every day even though I haven't reached it yet, express its splendor through comics, etc., and pray every day while using it as a living.

Since there are no major restrictions called temples, I am very free, and I feel that my current position is a great situation for me to learn and experience Buddhism (esoteric Buddhism), experience it, and introduce it to people and express it.

However, there is no need to get caught up in what I'm saying; if you have a connection with the Buddha, it just flows through.

Isn't it okay to talk like this?

① In small temples, there is usually only one chief priest. If it is a medium-sized temple, a deputy chief priest will be appointed. When it comes to large-scale temples, they often hire government monks.
② In the case of the Jodo sect, you are recognized as a Jodo religious master when you take kagyo credits at Shomon University (Taisho University/Bukkyo University), finish kagyo, and end the lineage of the sect precepts. I don't know how it is now, but in the past, there was a course called the Shojo Tokyo Training Course for becoming a monk at general universities, and even high school graduates also had lawyer training courses. (Maybe not right now.)
③ Part-time jobs are held when the temple's income alone cannot be eaten due to the size of the temple. As you said in the past, there were many public servants such as school teachers and government office staff, etc., but now it seems that there are many nursing staff due to the ban on concurrent employment for public servants.
④ The number of people living there has decreased now. There are a lot of separate buildings and commutes.
⑤ My parents' house is a temple, so no answer.