Work opportunities in Bangkok
Apr 11th 2009, 12:45 pm
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Work opportunities in Bangkok
Hi All,
I am new to this site and was hoping that someone could offer some advice.
I am a teacher who has been offered an opportunity to go and work in an international school in bangkok.
My long term boyfriend works within marketing and needs to find a job out in bangkok before we move out from the UK.
Where should he look?
Is there a job forum for expats?
Do companies usually supply visas?
Thanks
Amy
I am new to this site and was hoping that someone could offer some advice.
I am a teacher who has been offered an opportunity to go and work in an international school in bangkok.
My long term boyfriend works within marketing and needs to find a job out in bangkok before we move out from the UK.
Where should he look?
Is there a job forum for expats?
Do companies usually supply visas?
Thanks
Amy
May 16th 2009, 3:20 am
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Joined: Mar 2009
Location: Midlands. UK
Posts: 342
Re: Work opportunities in Bangkok
Hi All,
I am new to this site and was hoping that someone could offer some advice.
I am a teacher who has been offered an opportunity to go and work in an international school in bangkok.
My long term boyfriend works within marketing and needs to find a job out in bangkok before we move out from the UK.
Where should he look?
Is there a job forum for expats?
Do companies usually supply visas?
Thanks
Amy
I am new to this site and was hoping that someone could offer some advice.
I am a teacher who has been offered an opportunity to go and work in an international school in bangkok.
My long term boyfriend works within marketing and needs to find a job out in bangkok before we move out from the UK.
Where should he look?
Is there a job forum for expats?
Do companies usually supply visas?
Thanks
Amy
I see no-one replied to you. Unfortunately, the Far East forums seem to not be so popular as Middle East for instance.
Anyway, I used to live in Bangkok, now living in Shanghai.
There are lot's of teachers in Bangkok, and judging from a couple that I knew, you could get either a really bad salary (as low as 40,000 baht per month) or like my friend, he was getting 140,000, went to work around 8.30, and was finished by 3pm!!! Such an easy life he had and pay was fantastic relative to my 12 hrs a day in my job.
If you have a job offer, accept it and move over. Your bf can come with you on a tourist visa and will get 3 months, that can be extended one or two more times, before he will have to get out for 3 months before he can go back in. They changed the rules a couple of years ago which helped get rid of some of the pond life.
I tried for 2 years to get a job in Far East while I sat in the UK, it was pretty impossible. I was just lucky to get in contact with people I know, then even when I got my job, I didn't apply for my work visa until I was in Bangkok. Otherwise applying from the UK would be likely to be refused.
Take the risk, welcome to Asia!
Drop me a line if you want to directly.
regards
Paul
Jun 20th 2009, 5:49 am
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Location: Karratha WA and Northern Tasmania
Posts: 81
Re: Work opportunities in Bangkok
Hi Amy,
I see no-one replied to you. Unfortunately, the Far East forums seem to not be so popular as Middle East for instance.
Anyway, I used to live in Bangkok, now living in Shanghai.
There are lot's of teachers in Bangkok, and judging from a couple that I knew, you could get either a really bad salary (as low as 40,000 baht per month) or like my friend, he was getting 140,000, went to work around 8.30, and was finished by 3pm!!! Such an easy life he had and pay was fantastic relative to my 12 hrs a day in my job.
If you have a job offer, accept it and move over. Your bf can come with you on a tourist visa and will get 3 months, that can be extended one or two more times, before he will have to get out for 3 months before he can go back in. They changed the rules a couple of years ago which helped get rid of some of the pond life.
I tried for 2 years to get a job in Far East while I sat in the UK, it was pretty impossible. I was just lucky to get in contact with people I know, then even when I got my job, I didn't apply for my work visa until I was in Bangkok. Otherwise applying from the UK would be likely to be refused.
Take the risk, welcome to Asia!
Drop me a line if you want to directly.
regards
Paul
I see no-one replied to you. Unfortunately, the Far East forums seem to not be so popular as Middle East for instance.
Anyway, I used to live in Bangkok, now living in Shanghai.
There are lot's of teachers in Bangkok, and judging from a couple that I knew, you could get either a really bad salary (as low as 40,000 baht per month) or like my friend, he was getting 140,000, went to work around 8.30, and was finished by 3pm!!! Such an easy life he had and pay was fantastic relative to my 12 hrs a day in my job.
If you have a job offer, accept it and move over. Your bf can come with you on a tourist visa and will get 3 months, that can be extended one or two more times, before he will have to get out for 3 months before he can go back in. They changed the rules a couple of years ago which helped get rid of some of the pond life.
I tried for 2 years to get a job in Far East while I sat in the UK, it was pretty impossible. I was just lucky to get in contact with people I know, then even when I got my job, I didn't apply for my work visa until I was in Bangkok. Otherwise applying from the UK would be likely to be refused.
Take the risk, welcome to Asia!
Drop me a line if you want to directly.
regards
Paul
on a 90 day visa, you leave the country by air if you are wanting to re-enter. All land exits to/from Thailand visitors are given 2 weeks only.
Jun 20th 2009, 6:01 am
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Re: Work opportunities in Bangkok
It was possible to make more giving private lessions to the Thai Middle Class/Elite but not sure if that is still a goer with so many people wanting to stay a time in that conutry.
Good Luck.
