Can I Further My Career Overseas?
Working in Thailand as a foreigner normally means taking up an English teaching position. Even though there are highly paid English teaching positions in universities like Chulalongkorn or Thammasat, the vast majority of such positions offer little pay.
As a matter of fact, don’t anticipate a decent salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or not. It sounds like bad news, but actually if you hope 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 perhaps the best in this region of the world, it’s a safe country, and there’s nonetheless every prospect to further your career and gain some useful work experience.
But there is a hidden problem that slowly presents itself after some time: so you’ve been working in the Land of Smiles for a couple of years, and you’ve gained decent work experience, your pay is low, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so that’s OK. BUT, do you know what’s coming next? : You’ve not been able to actually BANK much money while you’ve been working in Thailand. Airfares look very expensive in comparison to your pay in Thailand. The cost of living in your home country gets to panic you when you compare your Thai wage slip. This problem troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a few years after starting work there. Long- term plans can often be delayed because you haven’t the savings to put into action any long-term plan like buying a home, purchasing a car, or getting married.
Consequently, key point : when thinking about staying in the Land of Smiles, also remember that it is incredibly challenging to bank substantial amounts of hard cash when thinking about the cost of living of “back home”.
Even so, not everything revolves around earning hard cash, does it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps acquire the Thai language, make new friends, go travelling around Thailand in your freetime, and gain some worthwhile overseas work experience.
So what sort of work placements can you obtain in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com – a site listing job positions in and around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand – they have listed Human Resource job positions, Admin job positions, sales executive job positions, Quality Assurance and Control jobs in Thailand etc. Essentially the types of job positions you’d discover in your home country. Even though most of these placements may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, there are still English-speaking prerequisites for job posts inside many multinational companies established in Thailand.
