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Shame to hear about you not liking Mexico.  I would love to go there but it's a bit unsafe for the past ten years.

I've been to Baja and I kind of love it.  Mexican food is my favorite.  I love Mexican women too.

Maybe I can get a job somewhere along a border town so I can dip in occasionally. 

19 hours ago, balo said:

What you need to do is to get a remote job BEFORE you arrive Thailand.  Then you don't have to worry about your income and can be sure you earn enough to live here.   

After a while you will get more clients and can relax . But coming here without anything and expect it will be sorted out is a bad idea.  

 

 

 

 

Will do.  

Ever since I've read the replies I've been giving this some thought.  I would really love to live in Thailand ASAP.

So...  I know there are Western companies that need programmers and others out there. Years ago I "interviewed" with one and my friends have interviewed as well.  I've been thinking that maybe I can spend my "on-site" years in Thailand, and if I progress beyond that for remote work I either stay or leave.

It shouldn't be too bad.  It's seems like BKK is quite the tech hub as well as Chiang Mai.

6 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

 

lack of multiple roads is a problem in hawaii.  oahu had some decent thai places but most not so good.

 

the majority of thai gals on oahu seemed to be transplants from the bar scene with the usual vices.

 

i did have a thai psychiatrist friend that was training in a local hospital. she since is married.

 

check the price of licensed electricians and plumbers in other states, very high.

 

 

why was healthcare bad?

My mom lives full-time on the Mainland because the healthcare here is so bad.  They are just not competent.  This is a major problem for everyone.  I overheard a conversation that the doctors on the islands totally didn't catch someone's pancreatic cancer and when it was found he was already at stage four.  It's seriously a life and death issue here.

I'll definitely keep what you said in mind.  I will weigh the options of doing a couple years on-site.  Perhaps in an exciting city like New Orleans or Austin.  If they let me have a few weeks in Thailand during the year that would help out a lot too.

Wow, quite a response.

I live on the Big Island in a town called Keaau which is 30 minutes drive time away from Hilo.  It really upsets me when people call "Hilo" the real Hawaii because I think the city and this particular island are really shitty.

There are not a lot of attractive Japanese women, or any other women of that kind.  The other day I was coming out of Taco Bell and I was watching this huge fat woman vape and blow her smoke up in the air and though of how she looked like a giant fat dumb ass dragon.  Those are the women here.

I'm living at my mommy's rent free so for me it's cheaper than Thailand.

I don't find the people here friendly and especially not when you compare them to the Thai.  I think a lot of people here are frustrated and angry and don't like people coming to "their island."  Just what you would expect from a colonized culture.

There is little to no nightlife.  I imagine it's different in Kona.

A lot of the natives are addicted to meth.  If you Google search the statistics you can find multiple sources saying it's four times the national USA average.

Right now I'm in an Information Technology program so that someday I can work remotely from Asia and live there on a more permanent basis. 

21 hours ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

Yes, I've worked remotely as a software engineer in the past, for around 9 years from a few continents.

Did you put in five years on-site?

I really want to do remote work ASAP because I really hate living in the US.  As an alternative I have considered applying for positions that are based in Thailand or the general area.

14 hours ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

Get 5 years solid experience on site in an in demand programming language (JavaScript, Go, Python), and do well at it, and you should be able to land a full time remote gig (structured as a long term contract) around 80 - 120k USD relatively easily. weworkremotely.com, remoteok and stackoverflow are good sources. To get US pay you'll probably have to have US work hour crossover though (4 hours usually enough, but most the work is in PST so that would be 11pm - 3am to catch their morning, or 3am - 7am to catch their afternoon). Slightly less pay (around 60 - 100k USD) can be obtained via UK, EU and AUS/NZ clients. Once you've put a few years in remotely, and proven that you're adept at it, you can negotiate higher rates. I know *highly* experienced (20 years) programmers on 240k US remote.

You need to get to upper mid-level / early senior at least though, and have experience with working with other developers and stakeholders and modern development process (continuous integration, source control, test driven development and the agile process) before you attempt to get into remote work - at least at anything like decent pay. Being remote makes things harder so you need to have solid experience of what would normally occur when co-located so that you can actively ensure you're putting in extra effort to make sure you're being visible and covering all the bases you would be when there in person.

There are remote "devops" roles out there, basically managing architecture across cloud providers, making developers lives easier, and monitoring system performance across all services so the end user has a good experience, but these require a very broad range of refined skills (including everything you mentioned) and are less frequently available than pure programming roles - they pay about the same too.

There are a few "100%" distributed teams, that are a good entry since *everybody* is remote, some examples include Automattic, Zapier and Buffer. These may employ slightly less experienced programmers so they are worth researching - they won't hire you out of college though, and they don't tend to pay as much - still good money though.

Don't go the odesk route, it pays peanuts. Organisations like toptal pay more, but less than going direct to clients.

If you enjoy programming, and are adept at it, you're doing better than 95% of the people that try to do it, so keep going.

Are you speaking from experience?

16 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

yes. #meetoo

 

However, the reality is quite different.

 

I'd venture to guess most digital nomads are living of their parents allowance while getting paid $100-$200 a moth with their  youtube and blogging experiments.

 

There's one very young guy in Hua Hin... I think he is a video game tester and makes well over 100,000k ($US) a year, however, this is a job he brought from United States.... not something he found while dicking around Thailand.

 

I have also set up my business in Canada and brought it over. I did it for a few years while still paying tax back home and stopped....as there are "trust" issues once you cross over to a third world country. I'm not saying what I did.... it's with computers but it's not programming.

 

Anyhoo.... good luck. Like with everything, if you suck at work you won't succeed. 90% of people suck at their work.

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I'm not blogging, doing SEO, or running some online business.

I'm learning skills that people can use to work remotely like programming and system administration.

16 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

 

 

 

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to get into remote work.  Right now I'm enrolled in an Associates Degree program in Information technology.  We learn things like programming, Linux, and soon networking and databases.

Right now it seems like I'm doing best at the programming aspect.  We had a Programming Logic course and one on Visual C#.  I aced both of them and enjoyed the work very much.  I'm going to teach myself Python during the summer.

What are some things I should keep in mind regarding remote work?  Is it hard to find an employer or clients that will let you work in a different time zone?  It seems like remote work is the future because employers don't have to spend money on offices and what not.

Also, if not programming then what are other pathways to the same goal?  MySQL databases?  Network Administration?

My optimal situation is where I have a handful of really good clients and I just work for them remotely while traveling the globe.

How many people here are Digital Nomads?  What path have you taken?

Why worry about something if it doesn't directly affect you?

Some ladyboys pickpocketed my phone.

Is this the handjob hotel?

Have you tried it with a VPN to see if they are discriminating against data from the United States?

Thailand remains highly dangerous to its citizens and visitors for multiple reasons. Road traffic is obviously right up there, crime, especially violent crime is rife, political insurgency in the south and random bombings, just to mention a few.
The major issue that I see, is that while plenty of time is spent on rhetoric, normally denying the existence of such problems, very little if anything ever happens that actually addresses and tackles the issues. Plans to tackle problems, such as the Pre-Songkran road safety drive, just fizzle out, or are withdrawn if people moan about the impact.
The Government is way too focused on its image and its popularity, but has no policies that address these issues, so Thailand is unlikely to become significantly safer, anytime soon.

Doesn't want happens in the South skew the numbers in violent crime?

Bangkok is moderately dangerous but it's numbers are better than Los Angeles. I feel safer in BKK than LA.

Thailand cops are corrupt POS.

I just remember a Thai cop holding onto my tablet while searching through my stuff just because he wanted to take it as a bribe if he found anything.

Scumbags.

How common is this? I just read an article about someone who injured themselves riding a motorcycle. He was insured but his insurance would not pay for his treatment and therefore the doctor would not operate. Sounds very scary.

They kind of worship me, are easy, and do wild stuff in the bedroom.

I was told that a few  days ago.
 
What's your opinion on it?

Did anyone catch the first episode of this show? There was a clip of Sukhumvit around the Citibank building.

Thailand is really great but I don't see a lot of considerations for the disabled.

Horrible.