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4 hours ago, steve187 said:

please explain how north Americans, Australians as well as some other countries would go about returning 

There's a Thai Air flight to Sydney every Sunday evening, contact the Australian embassy to register for one of these flights.

Qatar Airlines flies a couple of days a week to various Australian destinations, mind you you may have to take out a 2nd mortgage to afford one of these and they go via Doha.

Cathay Pacific has been running flights from Bangkok to Australia via Hong Kong (might be a bit iffy on an Australian passport at the moment) and 

I just heard Singapore Airlines is starting to fly Bangkok to Australia via Singapore.

Not sure about America or "other" countries but I hope this helps for anyone wanting to return to Oz.

I had some issues with the microwave causing the WIFI to drop out when in use. Did some checking on the internet and found that placing some tin-foil near the back of the microwave would help... and it did help. No more dropouts caused by the microwave.

When they enforced the "must have a degree" in anything to teach (for a work permit), they greatly reduced their access to good teachers. To compensate for low applications many dropped the requirement, must of an English language teaching certificate and relied only on a degree in anything. So getting teachers without qualifications. Our kids go to good schools in a big city and the teachers they have teaching English are at best a 5 out of 10.

Just wondering if they mean all foreigners, or just westerner foreigners? Asking for a friend.

Seems like a nice person.

Thailand has many good English language teachers already living here and many will work for the lower wages Thailand offers it's foreign teachers.

The real issue is the requirement for a degree... any degree. Someone with a degree in housekeeping qualifies to teach English, in many cases they don't even have an English language teaching certificate like a TESOL but still qualify to teach English in the schools.

If you want to attract more and possibly better teachers, then make the requirement:

1. a recognized English language teaching certificate as priority,
2. experience in teaching English language and
3. if needed for a work permit a degree or equivalent experience.

This is why globally there seems to be a shortage of English language teachers... just look at the online job boards. They can't fill them because they only hire people with degrees in anything.

The degree was only to meet the governments requirement for a work permit. Even online teaching companies now require a degree and they don't even know why. There's no work permit needed to teach online but yet the companies (most anyways) require a degree and many don't require an English language teaching certificate.

Since 2014 I have taught for three online schools, the first one was for students in China only but the pay was too low. The second one was based in Europe and taught mainly European business students, I really liked this job but the company wasn't very good and again the pay was really low.

The online company I teach for now I've been with for 3 years, they are not really a school but a portal where students and teachers meet. It's taken a while to build up my students but it's pretty good now and they pay weekly. I set my own rates and hours too.

Good news, but I already had my local office confirm that on a business visa I don't have to report every time I travel between my home and office in Bangkok and my home in Phuket which I travel back to most weekends.

I linked my Thai account to my PayPal... it did take a few attempts for the validation to go through and I thought it didn't go through then a couple of weeks later all was connected.

I haven't tried to top up or buy things on my Thai account through PayPal but often transfer from PP to my Thai account.

Someone told me that it's easier to connect a Bangkok Bank account to PayPal... I linked a SCB account.

I've been teaching on-line for a couple of years now for students in China. The pay isn't great but it does provide some pocket money for me. We use Skype mainly with video or a Chinese program called QQ.

If you want more info just PM me and I'll provide you their details.

If a taxi says no to me then I always say thank you and look for another taxi... not worth stressing about.

I think the real problem is that they're listening to but not taking in, the advice from international community. Not that they every have.

Didn't something like this happen a few years back and many medium to large companies moved to other countries offering more "favorable" trading terms?

If some of the neighboring countries want to pick the lowest fruit for success... just do the opposite of what Thailand is doing.

I believe foreigners want to invest in Asia, China is very difficult, many of the other countries are maybe still a little behind in infrastructure so that leaves Thailand... who seems hell-bent on preventing this from happening here.

Love my Ford Ranger Hi-Rider. It's a 2008, 5 speed turbo-diesel. Never missed a beat and a real pleasure when driving between Surin and Krung Thep.

This may help you...

I see many Filipino staff in hotels and other businesses requiring English speaking office teams these days. Maybe you should try to locate a Filipino employment agency.

Some of the Thai people I know in high profile office positions are earning 45K up plus bonuses so they don't get head-hunted.

Not sure if anyone else noticed this or not... it looks like the ripped the leg off... not a very "surgical looking" removal. I hope the other end still attaching to the person is in better condition.

maybe get involved in the business side for grey water recovery systems or something like that.

When they do something bad... you guys complain... when the do something good... you guys complain...

I'm sure from the kittens point of view... no matter the what or why... he or she is happy with the results!

Yes with standard units over-sizing will lead to higher humidity in the area cooled.

With inverters they are most energy efficient at around 50 to 60% part load. Not sure about buying one over-sized though... what happens is once the area reaches temperature the compressor starts to slow down. Doing maintenance cooling is always cheaper on power than to let a space get hot then turn on the air conditioner to cool it down.

My office at home I set at 26 when I'm working, humidity seems to stay around 45%. And when I'm not working I leave the air set at 28. The humidity rises to around 60%.

This helps keep my office reasonably dry for the printer papers and books. I have a lot of different paper for my printers for brochures and immages etc and keeping them dry is a must.

Yeah I had the same problem... I just Googled how to install Skype without a Microsoft account and got this link... works a treat!

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-full

just did my 90 day run with my non "B". no problems and no questions. Wasn't asked to show WP. The only questions (which are always asked) where was I going. I just said "Pom bai bon, khup" They asked where was home and I told them. And that was at the army check point.

Last week it took me three tries the get a taxi from Mor Chit bus terminal and this was at 5am so traffic to my destination would not have been a problem for the driver. Though I must say I rarely have any issues about the meter any where in Krung Thep.