Gaining employment in the Land of Smiles as a non-Thai national usually means assuming an English teaching position. Even though there are highly paid English teaching jobs in institutions like Chulalongkorn or Thammasat, most English teaching positions aren’t terribly well paid.

In fact, don’t expect a leading wage for any highly skilled job, teaching or otherwise. It doesn’t sound very promising, but in reality if you mean to live in Thailand for a year or two, such poorly paid jobs aren’t too much of a problem since Thailand is a cheap place to live, the infrastructure is perhaps the best in this region of the world, it’s a safe country, yet you can rise up the job ladder because you can gain a great work experience in Thailand.

But there’s an obscured dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: so you’ve been staying in the Land of Smiles for 1 or 2 years, you’ve accumulated decent work experience, your wage is low, but so what : the cost of living is low so that’s OK. HOWEVER, guess what? You’ve not been able to save money while working in Thailand. Airfares look ridiculously over-priced in comparison to your pay in Thailand. The price of things in your home country begins to worry you when you compare your money earned in Thailand. This dilemma troubles many non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or two after deciding to work there. Long- term plans are often delayed because you haven’t the savings to realise any goal like buying a house, purchasing a car, or getting married.

So, important point : when thinking about working in the Land of Smiles, it’s wise to also consider that it is extremely difficult to save substantial quantities of hard currency when considering the prices of your home country.

Nevertheless, it’s not all about money is it? You can gain a wonderful experience in Thailand, perhaps acquire the Thai language, make new friends, go travelling around Thailand when you have time off work, and gain some valuable overseas work experience.

So what variety of jobs can you obtain in Thailand? Browsing jobs -quality.com - a site listing job positions around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed HR job positions, Administration job placements in Thailand, sales executive work placements, safety officer work placements etc. Basically the types of positions you’d discover 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 prerequisites for placements within many international organizations based in Thailand.