Kanji drill

Well, besides job hunting I am of course still studying Japanese intensively. I can surely notice the difference in my abilities to last year. The structure and logic of Japanese sentences (that is really different from ours) does not seem completely uncomprehensible anymore. I feel much more confident speaking Japanese now and I have a broader vocabulary of course. And I write Kana and the Kanji that I learned so far pretty fast now.
Still, I am nowhere near super fluent or near native as some people seem to think I should. I sometimes get a little bit annoyed about the expectations that people who never studied an Asian language have. Show me the person who becomes fluent in one of them in a few month, I`d be extremely impressed... Consider that learning languages such as English, French etc. does take years (and many people still suck at it then), so a language with quite a different logic and a whole new writing system that is by far more difficult than the latin letters can not be learned that fast. I know I should be understanding, but sometimes I feel like screaming at people asking me whether I am fluent by now, screaming "go the hell and try to study it yourself!".
But anyway, while learning Japanese in the beginning was a major pain and not much else, it has become much more fun because I have a certain feel for the language now. I can actually see that I am progressing and do not feel that my brain empties itself over night.
I am now very keen to learn more kanji fast as well. Learning kanji (the Chinese letters) is really boring actually. Remember primary school when you had to write endless rows of the same letter? Now imagine the same, but instead of two dozen or so signs it`s thousands to learn. Well, supposedly around 2000 should get you to read newspapers and stuff. And it`s not just learning how to "draw" the signs, they have between 1 and 5 or 6 different readings (pronounciations), depending on which other kanji they are combined with. And those combined meanings have to be learned as well. It really isn`t that much fun. BUT, it seems to be the most tangible learning success for me, I can feel best that I am progressing there and able to read more and more.
I changed my approach. I was really perfectionist with the kanji in the beginning and thought I should only move on to the next series of kanji when I knew readings of those currently learned and would be able to draw them perfectly, etc. I gave this up, it`s too frustrating. Now I learn them much faster and a bit more superficially. It`s ok to know just 1-2 readings and a few combinations and not to be able to perfectly handwrite them. Even Japanese people these days are not so good at handwriting them anymore because everyone uses the computer these days. And with the conversion method you use when writing on computer or mobiles you just need to recognize the right kanji combination, not actively write it. So passive knowledge is by far more useful and eventually I will also learn how to draw them exactly and all readings. I now should really focus on being able to read and write on the computer better, so I focus more on passive kanji knowledge.