Gap Year Options: Working in Thailand
So you want to experience life in Thailand? Usually when people consider living in Thailand, they instantly think they need to take up an English teaching job to pay their way. While there are lucrative English teaching jobs in institutions like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such positions offer little pay.
As a matter of fact, don’t expect a leading wage for any highly skilled job, teaching or not. It does sound all bad, but in reality if you intend to live in Thailand for a year or two, such low salaries aren’t any trouble since the cost of living is very low in Thailand, the infrastructure is arguably the best in this region of the world, it’s a safe country, and you can still rise up the job ladder because you can get a great work experience in Thailand.
But there is a hidden problem that slowly presents itself after some time: so you’ve been staying in the Land of Smiles for a couple of years, and you’ve gained decent work experience, your wage isn’t great, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so no problem. HOWEVER, do you know what’s coming next? : You’ve been unable to save much money while you’ve been working in Thailand. The cost of air tickets look ridiculously expensive in comparison to your salary. The price of things in your home country starts to worry you when thinking about your Thai salary. This dilemma hits a lot of foreigners in Thailand a year or so after arriving there. Lasting plans are often delayed since you haven’t the savings to realise any goal like purchasing a house, tieing the knot, or even buying a car.
Therefore, important point : when thinking about working in Thailand, it’s smart to also consider that it is very challenging to bank substantial amounts of cash when thinking about the cost of living of your home country.
Even so, it’s not all about money is it? You can gain a wonderful experience in Thailand, perhaps acquire the Thai language, make new friends, travel around Thailand in your freetime, and gain some worthwhile overseas work experience.
So what variety of work placements can you get in the Land of Smiles? Looking at jobs-quality.com – a website listing job positions around the Chonburi and Bangkok districts of Thailand – they have listed Human Resource job positions, Admin work placements, sales executive jobs in Thailand, safety officer work placements etc. Basically the types of work placements you’d find in your home country. Even though the majority of these job posts may be looking for a Thai speaker, you will still find English-speaking prerequisites for work placements within many global organizations based in Thailand.
