So you want to live in Thailand? Ordinarily when individuals think about living in Thailand, they straightaway think they must take up an English teaching position to pay for their time there. While there are lucrative English teaching jobs in institutions like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such jobs aren’t terribly well paid.

As a matter of fact, don’t anticipate a leading wage for any job requiring skills, teaching or otherwise. It sounds like bad news, but actually if you aspire to live in Thailand for an extended period of time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t a worry because Thailand is a low- priced place to live, the infrastructure is arguably the best in South East Asia, it’s a friendly and safe country, and there’s still every opportunity to advance your career and gain some decent work experience.

However there’s an obscured dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: you’ve been working in Thailand for 1 or 2 years, and you’ve gained great work experience, your pay is low, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so no problem. HOWEVER, do you know what’s coming next? : You’ve not been able to actually BANK much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. The cost of air tickets look very over-priced in comparison to your salary. The cost of living in your home country starts to worry you when you compare your Thai salary. This problem troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a few years after starting work there. Lasting plans can often be delayed because you don’t have the nest egg of money to put into action any long-term plan like buying a house, tieing the knot, or even purchasing a car.

Consequently, important point : when thinking about staying in Thailand, also remember that it is very challenging to save substantial quantities of hard currency when thinking about the prices of “back home”.

However, it’s not all about cash is it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps learn the language, make new friends, travel around the country in your freetime, and get some valuable overseas work experience.

So what sort of work placements can you find in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com – a site listing positions around the Bangkok and Chonburi districts of Thailand – they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, engineering work placements in Thailand, safety officer work placements etc. Basically the types of positions you’d find in your home country. While most of these posts may be looking for a Thai national who speaks Thai, there are still English-speaking prerequisites for work placements within many global organizations located in Thailand.