The Alternative Remedies Guide

So you want to live in Thailand? Normally when people consider living in Thailand, they immediately think they need to take up an English teaching position to pay for their time there. Even though there are highly paid English teaching jobs in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such positions are often poorly paid.

As a matter of fact, don’t expect a high salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or otherwise. It does sound all bad, but actually if you mean to live in Thailand for an extended period of time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t too much of a problem since the cost of living is very low in Thailand, the infrastructure is the best in this region of the world, it’s a safe country, yet you can crawl up the career ladder because you can get a great work experience in Thailand.

However there is a hidden problem that slowly shows itself after some time: you’ve been staying in Thailand for a couple of years, you’ve gained great work experience, your pay isn’t great, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so that’s OK. HOWEVER, do you know what’s coming next? : You’ve not been able to save much money while you’ve been working in Thailand. The cost of air tickets look very expensive compared to your salary. The cost of living back home starts to frighten you when you compare your Thai salary. This problem troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or so after starting work there. Long- term future plans are often put on hold because you haven’t the savings to realise any goal like buying a property, tieing the knot, or even purchasing a car.

Therefore, important point : when thinking about working in the Land of Smiles, it’s wise to also remember that you will find it incredibly difficult to bank substantial amounts of hard cash when thinking about the prices of your home country.

Even so, not everything revolves around earning hard cash, does it? You can gain a wonderful experience in Thailand, perhaps learn the Thai language, make friends, go travelling around the country when you have time off work, and gain some precious work experience.

So what sort of job positions can you get in the Land of Smiles? Browsing jobs-quality.com – a site listing positions around the Bangkok and Chonburi districts of Thailand – they have listed Human Resource work placements, Administration job positions, sales executive job positions, Quality Assurance and Control jobs in Thailand etc. Essentially the sort of job positions you’d find in your home country. While most of these placements may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, there are still English-speaking prerequisites for placements inside many global organizations located in Thailand.