I'm American college student who look forward to go live in Thailand for the rest of my life. What are good jobs in Thailand for foreigners? I want to have salary about 50,000 baht per month.
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Best job for a foreigner, in my opinion, is to work for a foreign company that has high wages! Why would any Thai company hire you at a wage higher than a Thai citizen? If the wages you can earn in your country are higher than what ordinary Thais make doing the same job then go with a company from your country doing business there. Sometimes outside companies also pay for your apartment and a food allowance too! Until then, to make yourself more marketable you should learn to read and write Thai! Some government agencies, such as your embassy or military assistance groups often have an office in foreign countries.
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thats a high salary for Thailand, so you might want to work for a large multi-national. What skills can you offer? The UNHCR or UNICEF have some brilliant posts and you would be doing something really worthwhile. It would help if you started to learn Thai, Lao or Isan if your serious about this
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Most of the jobs are reserved for locals. The general rule is that if it can be done by a local then its hard for a foreigner to get it.
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Well, it seems you better find something that you are qualified to do and then find out if there is work in that field - hotels like foreign managers but they want schooling and expereince in the field... The job most often and maybe easily pursued is English teaching but it might not pay that much.. good luck to you..
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As Karazyal said, the best jobs are working for foreign national companies who have operations in Thailand. Among the friends I have who work here in Thailand, a couple of them are IT professionals who work for IBM, one is a software team project manager who is redesigning the software for one of the major banks, the other is in regional sales, another friend works for a French retailer and is in charge of opening new retail outlets in Asia. As someone else also posted, Thailand has a very closed and protective job market (as do most countries) and most jobs working for Thai companies are not even available to foreign workers. This is a good website to see what kind of jobs are available and the qualifications and the type of experience you'll need, good luck: http://www.jobjob.co.th/en/
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I just hope and pray that you wont be another farang teacher teaching in schools without a proper degree and demanding to be paid 50,000 Baht. good luck to you, anyway.
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You need to get a skill to enable you to earn that much money in Thailand. You need professional qualifications that the Thai cannot get easily, this will put you in better stead in the competition for jobs. As noted, the locals can be paid less, they will get the job most times. Since you are talking about living in Thailand fior the rest of your life, you might want to consider completing your studies well and scouting for jobs especially with a foreign link.
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the average salary in Thailand is 40,000 and alot of factory workers get alot less than that. You could do several jobs Teacher is the most common, but don't expect that salary straight away look at www.ajarn.com Wait till you have a skill before you come here to Thailand. Engineers degreed get about 40,000 a month so you will be pushing it. Bar Manager will help with some pin money and maybe keep you sober? Where in TH are you planning to stay?
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