Engineering Work Placements in Thailand
Monday, June 15th, 2009So you want to live in Thailand? Ordinarily when people consider living in Thailand, they instantly think they must take up an English teaching placement to pay their way. Even though there are well paid English teaching jobs in universities like Chulalongkorn or Thammasat, the vast majority of such jobs aren’t terribly well paid.
In point of fact, don’t expect a decent salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or otherwise. It does sound all bad, but in reality if you hope to live in Thailand for some time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t a worry because the cost of living is very low in Thailand, the infrastructure is the best in this region of the world, it’s a friendly and safe country, yet you can crawl up the job ladder because you can have a great work experience in Thailand.
However there is an obscured problem that slowly shows itself over time: so you’ve been working in Thailand for a couple of years, and you’ve gained decent work experience, your pay isn’t great, but so what : the cost of living is low so that’s OK. HOWEVER, guess what? You haven’t had the opportunity to save much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. The cost of air tickets look very over-priced in comparison to your salary in Thailand. The price of things back home starts to worry you when you compare your money earned in Thailand. This dilemma troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a few years after starting work there. Lasting future plans are often put on hold because you haven’t the savings to put into action any plan like purchasing a property, purchasing a car, or tieing the knot..
Therefore, key point : when thinking about staying in Thailand, it’s advised to also consider that you will find it very challenging to bank substantial quantities of hard currency when thinking about the cost of living of your home country.
Yet, it’s not all about cash is it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps acquire the language, make new friends, go travelling around the country when you have time off work, and get yourself some invaluable work experience.
So what variety of job positions can you obtain in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com – a website listing job positions in the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand – they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, engineering work placements in Thailand, safety officer job positions etc. Basically the sort of positions you’d discover in your home country. While most of these work placements may be looking for a Thai speaker, there are still English-speaking prerequisites for work placements within many multinational organizations based in Thailand.
