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On 5/6/2020 at 10:41 AM, Brunolem said:

 

No child, and no adult, has an attention span long enough to learn new things 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, without ever taking a break...

Correct, that is why they get the weekend off. 

I am quite sure that your embassy should be able to issue you a temporary 1yr passport as others have mentioned.

2 hours ago, revup said:

I have been working as a chemistry teacher for 16 years. I have a Bachelors (honors), a Ph.D., and a post grad diploma in education from a Thai university. When I turned 60, the Thai university informed me of my impending retirement. Despite all my best efforts, when my contract ended 8 months later, the University did not renew my contract. I received a reasonable compensation given the years worked. The University's school continued to hire me. Overall, I have 50% of my former salary.

The schools contract says I will undergo 'mental assessment' each year before being issued a new contract.

 

I applied for many teaching jobs around BKK during the past 12 months, but as soon as they learn my age, the dialog stops.

Teaching online is an uphill struggle, I have prepared well except that I have not yet had a single student.

I do a little editing through online agencies like Wallis Editing and Edanz. The pay is not great but the work is fairly continuous.

 

One surprisingly negative aspect is the response from co-workers, there are two who feel they have an axe to grind. They are running a passive-aggressive campaign bad mouthing the idea of working with 'retired' teachers. I feel highly vulnerable in my present situation, and their behavior gives me significant anxiety.

There is a lot more sympathy from those in their late 50s.

 

My best advice is to prepare by saving, learning new skills, and looking for several income sources for the future.

Good luck

 

Foolish to the extreme. How does age matter here when teaching chemistry and that too, with your excellent qualifications? As long as you are physically fit, a teacher with a long experience should be given preference!

6 minutes ago, mickymouse1 said:

Interesting coincidence, the ex suddenly turns up????????????

In most farang murders, they always do! Her proverbial 'brother' also might be lurking around behind the house.

14 minutes ago, mtflamingo said:

Oh yes the over 2 years of my life that I gave being a volunteer doesn't matter.  In case you were curios some people come here because the Thai government asks for their help.  But please assume that I am like all the others when really all I was asking for was guidance during these unprecedented times

So tell us why you have to call yourself a "White Saviour"??

1 minute ago, mtflamingo said:

All I was wondering if what I was doing was breaking face.  If you know anything about the culture here you would know that is unacceptable. 

Looks to me like you are trying to gain face by imagining that you are some kind of white angel come to save the poor starving natives with a gift of a 100 baht. "White Saviour", are you from the slavery era?

2 hours ago, 2long said:

I am worried that this and other news and stuff is just a smokescreen. And that they always planned to reintroduce lockdown measures, by blaming it on people travelling this past long weekend. I have seen several news reports & threads about threatening to ban booze and other activities again.

I wouldn't put it past them to have stored some 'infection statistics from last month' to use next week claiming it's due to the travel and drunkards!

But I really hope I'm 100% wrong!

Dont you have enough money to buy 2 months stock of alcohol if you are much worried?

Haters are going to hate, they dont like to hear such positive stories, it spoils the misery they love to wallow in.

10 minutes ago, Fatman666 said:

I use big shopping malls only if i need to go to toilet. So 2 hours time limit more than enough for myself. I shop more at local markets to help the ordinary people. 

90% of the staff working in big malls might be very ordinary people. 

Trolling or you really dont know that the restriction was removed 2 days ago? Anyway, go buy quickly as it wont be sold tomorrow due to a Buddhist festival. After tomorrow again back to normal.

11 minutes ago, alfalfa19 said:

since the virus,  i'm attending 1 or 2 NA meetings a day online, vs 1 or 2 a week in normal times.  i kind of like the online meetings better.  it's not that i'm antisocial, i like people very much.   i just don't like being around them.  In 9 days, I hope to have 29 years clean. 

Not sure what is a NA meeting, No Alcohol?? After 29 years without touching any alcohol, you now seem to be severely addicted to NA meetings!

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And then they see a farang and you get the farang price. ???? 

Could be a polite way of saying that farangs are not welcome?

11 hours ago, wordchild said:

generally speaking rents are not increased for good tenants, in my experience. though the landlord will try to revert to a higher rent, if possible, once a tenant has moved out.

prior to buying a unit in the same building we rented another unit for 5 years. we were on good terms with our landlord and i once asked him if he would ever put the rent up. he said he wouldn't do that , as far as he was concerned we were good tenants and he was happy for us to stay as long as possible. A friend of mine rented a unit in one of the older Bangkok condos for 15 years without the landlord ever even suggesting a rental increase; he even had the kitchen completely redone (at the landlords expense) during the tenancy. He had a spacious unit (in a well maintained building) with great river views and, in the later years of his occupancy,  he had an amazing rental deal compared to the market. He only moved out because he got moved to HK by his company where he now lives in a shoe box, for a multiple of the rent he was paying in BKK. 

For a multiple of the salary he was getting in Bangkok.

21 hours ago, dimitriv said:

In Bangkok there are 525,889 condos and houses with almost zero electricity usage. It doesn't mean that they are all for sale. Some are probably owned by people who do not use them.

 

 

 

Quite true. I live in a spacious 3 bedroom condo within walking distance of BTS thonglor, there are 3 units per floor and it is a very high rise building. One unit on my floor is vacant since the last 8 years i have been here, but it is cleaned thoroughly by an outsourced company twice a week. And 3 years ago, the owner spent over 1.5 million THB to completely renovate this vacant unit. He is quite friendly and proudly displayed it to me after renovation. His family use it for about a maximum of 10 days in a year. He is a textile export businessman who supposedly lives in a large villa near Chaengwattana and bought this unit for his teenage children to use when they are in this area, and has one more unit in Hua Hin for leisure. And as far as i know, the teenage children are not some spoilt brats, the son is doing engineering in a top university in Germany and the daughter is in an Ivy League college!