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Gaining employment in the Land of Smiles as a non-Thai national normally means taking in an English teaching position. Even though there are lucrative English teaching positions in universities like Chulalongkorn or Thammasat, most English teaching positions offer little pay.

In point of fact, don’t anticipate a leading salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or not. It sounds like bad news, but in reality if you mean to live in Thailand for some time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t a worry because Thailand is a low- priced place to live, the infrastructure is the best in this region of the world, it’s a friendly and safe country, and there’s still every prospect to further your career and gain some decent work experience.

But there’s a hidden problem that only shows itself after some time: you’ve been living in the Land of Smiles for a couple of years, and you’ve gained good work experience, your pay isn’t great, but then again 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 actually BANK much money while you’ve been living in Thailand. The cost of air tickets look ridiculously over-priced in comparison to your pay in Thailand. The cost of living back home gets to worry you when you compare your money earned in Thailand. This problem troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or two after deciding to work there. Long- term future plans are often delayed since you haven’t the nest egg of money to put into action any long-term plan like buying a property, buying a car, or tieing the knot..

So, key point : when thinking about working in Thailand, it’s smart to also consider that it is very challenging to save meaningful amounts of hard cash when thinking about the costs of your home country.

Even so, not everything revolves around money, does it? You can gain a wonderful experience in Thailand, perhaps acquire the language, make new friends, go travelling around the country in your freetime, and get some worthwhile overseas work experience.

So what variety of jobs can you secure in the Land of Smiles? Browsing jobs-quality.com - a site listing job positions around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed Human Resource job positions, Administration job positions, engineering work placements in Thailand, safety officer work placements etc. Basically the sort of positions you’d find in your home country. While the majority of these job posts may be looking for a Thai national who speaks Thai, there are still English-speaking requirements for work placements within many global companies established in Thailand.