Misrelate

So you want to live in Thailand? Ordinarily when people think about living in Thailand, they instantly think they must take up an English teaching placement to pay for their time there. Even though there are lucrative English teaching positions in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, most English teaching positions are often poorly paid.

In fact, don’t expect a decent salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or otherwise. It sounds like bad news, but in reality if you mean to live in the Land of Smiles for a few years, such poorly paid jobs aren’t too much of a problem since Thailand is a cheap place to live, the infrastructure is perhaps the best in this region of the world, it’s a friendly and safe country, and you can still climb up the career ladder because you can gain a great work experience in Thailand.

Yet there’s an obscured dilemma that only presents itself after some time: so you’ve been staying in Thailand for a couple of years, and you’ve gained great work experience, your wage isn’t great, but so what : the cost of living is low so that’s OK. HOWEVER, do you know what’s coming next? : You haven’t had the opportunity to save much money while you’ve been living in Thailand. Airfares look ridiculously expensive compared to your salary. The cost of living back home starts to frighten you when you compare your Thai wage slip. This dilemma troubles many foreigners in Thailand a year or so after starting work there. Long- term future plans are often put on hold because you don’t have the savings to put into action any plan like buying a home, buying a car, or tieing the knot..

Therefore, key point : when thinking about working in the Land of Smiles, it’s advised to also remember that you will find it extremely challenging to save meaningful amounts of cash when considering the cost of living of your home country.

Yet, it’s not all about cash is it? You can gain a wonderful experience in Thailand, perhaps acquire the Thai language, make friends, travel around the country when you have time off work, and acquire some precious work experience.

So what kind of work placements can you secure in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com - a website listing jobs in and around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, production supervisor jobs in Thailand, safety officer job positions etc. Essentially the types of job positions you’d find in your home country. Even though most of these placements may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, there are still English-speaking requirements for jobs within many international companies based in Thailand.