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Merc, does your reading comprehension suck or are you a liar? I specifically said i am in my 2nd yr in the EP program. My salary is the same as everyone else's in EP for your 2nd yr. i also mentioned i have been interviewing with other schools. I am no lifer nor head teacher nor hiring personel. You dont have friends in my position because if you did, they would have told you they make the same as me. I also mentioned there is another teacher position the agency has which is 33-35k that teaches each student in school, 1 hour a week, thus teaching 2 lessons, 10 times each. EP and this position are night and day different. Very very few schools in thailand really care about education. This is not the west. My current agency honors what is in the contract. This is thailand, never trust promises

I have worked for my agency for 2 years and love it. OP, watch out for disgruntled thailand experts that make blanket statements that all agencies are bad because of a few. That is like all thais saying all farangs are bad because one breaks the law. Look at B**** (acronyms). They always pay on time, handle my visa immediately. I get 42k/mo in 2nd yr then a 38k bonus at end. All teachers are proper degrees. It has western management. I have been offered very low end international school job and high end private school jobs (direct hire) and they cant beat my pay. All our teachers need proper degrees. I teach in EP program. We also offer 10 month contracts for conversational english teaching each school student 1 hr/week so you teach the same lesson all week. We have drivers when we have out of town seminars

5555. The jealous complaining about the US again. Clowns.

Well spoken Lekong. My feelings exactly. Thai teachers all the time tell students to not learn in EP b/c english is a useless language. I have no idea why the OP thinks agency teachers are bad. I am quite confident my academic qualifications exceed 99% of all teachers here

Canary, you are a fool and a liar. You are copying and pasting an article from years ago. I know, i read that article before i move here years ago. There is only 1 night market here (not many like the article says).

I live in Buriram and pretty young. I am friends with the owners of the top 2 bars in the city. And drink with them a lot. It is very hard to pick up a pretty girl in that city. They dont want to be branded a prostitute. The old burned pattaya girls live way outside the city in small villages. Buriram province is huge. I have found buriram city the most difficult place in thailand to pickup. Buriram can also be quite dangerous if you pick up on someone's girl. If you pick up good looking girls here, they will be in the university