May 31, 2009
Gap Year Approaching? Consider Work in South East Asia
Working in Thailand as a foreigner typically means taking in an English teaching position. While there are highly paid English teaching jobs in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such positions offer little pay.
In point of fact, don’t anticipate a decent salary for any highly skilled job, teaching or not. It does sound all bad, but actually if you aspire to live in Thailand for some time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t any trouble since Thailand is a low- priced place to live, the infrastructure is the best in South East Asia, it’s a safe country, and there’s still every chance to further your career and get some decent work experience.
However there’s an obscured dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: you’ve been staying in Thailand for a few years, and you’ve gained good work experience, your pay isn’t great, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so that’s OK. BUT, here’s the rub : You haven’t had the opportunity to save much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. Airfares look very over-priced compared to your pay in Thailand. The price of things back home gets to scare you when thinking about your money earned in Thailand. This problem hits a lot of non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or so after starting work there. Long- term plans are often put on hold because you don’t have the nest egg of money to realise any ambition like buying a home, tieing the knot, or even purchasing a car.
So, key point : when thinking about living in the Land of Smiles, also remember that it is very challenging to save meaningful amounts of cash when considering the prices of “back home”.
Even so, not everything revolves around money, does it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps learn the language, make friends, travel around the country when you have time off work, and get yourself some precious overseas work experience.
So what kind of jobs can you find in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com - a website listing job positions in and around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, sales executive job positions, Quality Assurance and Control jobs in Thailand etc. Essentially the sort of work placements you’d discover in your home country. Even though the majority of these job posts may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, you will still find English-speaking prerequisites for posts within many international organizations located in Thailand.
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