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This second wave came from international flight crew who didn't have to quarantine and went shopping and dining.

25 minutes ago, cormanr7 said:

For those interested, the fourth 'western' vaccine to be potentially authorized is the Johnson & Johnson viral vector (a la AstraZeneca or Sputnik V) vaccine. This one is potentially quite important as it is intended as a single shot product (though a large trial with two shots has also been initiated). The JJ vaccine uses the same vector as their Ebola vaccine. The company claims to be able to produce 1 billion doses this year, though anecdotal evidence suggests that production is lagging. Interim results from the phase III trial are expected end January/early February. According to a spokesman from the Warp speed (more like Walk speed) project (so not the company) the efficacy is around 80%. The EU is a big client for the JJ vaccine (400 million doses) whereas the COVAX project has an MoU for 500+ million doses..

In other news, the EU is expected to authorize (or not) the AstraZeneca vaccine on Jan 29th. Also ordered an additional 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BionTech vaccine. 

1 shot seems like a better idea. I image quite a few people getting the 2 shot vaccines may just have 1 and never get around to having the 2nd shot.

Been through this several times myself, it doesn't quite work like it does back in farangland. If you bring an outside mechanic with you to the caryard the Thais at the caryard will talk to your mechanic and influence him. And if you speak Thai they'll talk in a dialect to lose you. They'll pull nationalism on him (support Thai not farang) I once got around this by bringing an English mechanic I met, but his Thai wife told him the Thais will get him one night and beat the cr*p out of him, so he freaked and backed out. Another time the Thai mechanic I brought along wasn't truthful and advised me that a car was in great condition when it wasn't as he was planning on getting the repair work. Anyway, I bought a new car so I don't have to deal with this BS.

10 minutes ago, Dart12 said:

At the moment, I don't have anything personally.

But there are sites like Upwork and Freelancer that you could post your skill sets and what hourly you'd like to earn...and take jobs at leisure.  Or you could apply for jobs. 

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But already being comfortable with what you do, teach English.  I'd make some posts on your timeline, FB marketplace, and "local" groups that you are starting a tutoring service, and of course outline your experience as you have here...and I'm 99% sure after a week or two you'd have a few students.

For engagement purposes on FB just to get the ball rolling, you could offer X hours for free for one student or just volunteer your service for one student so you get some bites you can follow up on.

*I'd actually start a free FB group (English for Chinese Made Easy?). where you invite these people in and you give some free lessons to the group weekly.  Then softsell at end of each lesson that you offer more hands on lessons for $xx

This way you set your terms, your time available, $$, guarantees, who you work with, if you want to fire them as clients, etc etc..

If you get enough interest, you then do Group coaching.  Make more money for less time involved.

Get more ambitious? record your sessions and make them planned...so eventually you could put them together as modules in your very own English course you could sell for some extra Heinekins.  Zero extra work from what you are doing already while tutoring, only you are creating assets the first time you do the lessons ???? that can be repurposed.



You really are in a prime position having no "needs" and having a skill backed up with credentials.

I might have just made it all seem difficult?  If so, all you need to do to start is drop a post with your teaching offer on your own timeline and see how many bites you get.

My team has closed 8 figures in USD the past year with this model in FB an expanded scale.  It works very well at the moment.

 If you have any questions, just leave them here or feel free to PM me.  

 

Very interesting and many thanks for informing me. I do have my FB account, however it my personal FB with lots of photos of my wife and myself on holidays and sitting in restaurants with bottles of Heineken on the tables, so if I was to go ahead with your idea I'll need to open another "professional" FB account. I'll mull over what you have outlined here, also I'll look at Upwork and Freelancer. I have done some editing for Thais in the past, and that is another possibility. I also worked for many years in journalism, and have taught business English. Thanks again, you have been very helpful.

6 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

I know a couple of people that do it. If you really need the money to live, sure go ahead. But if it's just a hobby it will freeze your social life. They had to commit to their hours every day. Always in the evening from 4 to 8. If they wanted a day off it had to be cleared a week in advance.  

Not an issue, I'm living out in the boonies of rural Korat, it wouldn't matter to me if I taught 2-3 hours at 3pm or 3am, my social life is me sitting alone with a bottle of Heineken and a bowl of salted peanuts. If I have to commit to 4-8pm I'll crack my first coldie for the day at 8.30pm. ????

23 hours ago, puchooay said:

If they are earning 500 a month for 30+ hours a week, they are doing something wrong.

 

Cambly, probably the easiest company to get on with, is a good choice for someone who is not sure of what time, what day, how long, etc. Lots of student from Saudi and Turkey. South Korea, Japan and China complete the top 5. Saturday and Sunday afternoon time in those countries listed will earn you a few quid.

 

Not great money but good flexibility.

Thanks for the tip, I'll look Cambly up.

4 hours ago, Dart12 said:

So, money is not an issue and you are just looking for something to do?  In teaching field only?  or anything online?

**And do you have a FB account or willing to get one?

I wouldn't say money is not an issue, I certainly could use some more, just I'm not desperate. I could consider anything online, provided I felt confident, I'm only looking at teaching as it's something I've done for many years and know what I'm doing. Yes I do have a FB account. If you have some plan/ideas that may interest me then send me a PM and we can look at it.

2 hours ago, moontang said:

No one mentioned that C19 brought a flood of teachers to the online schools.. Spendi g a few hours per day on the stock markets will earn you much more, but good luck.. Let us know, when you get your first check... 

It doesn't really matter to me. I have a pension and have considerable savings, so I'm far from desperate. It's just an idea I had to give me some interest. I do know quite a lot about TESL and know zero about stock markets, if I got involved in stock markets I would soon be desperate and without my considerable savings.

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm not looking for much, don't want anything like a FT job, just an hour or 2 a day would be ideal. I'll look around Google and see what I can find.

2 hours ago, chrissables said:

I may just stick with picasa, easy to use. ????

It's my favorite and does the job.

Good, crank it up 24/7 get those vaccines into everybody and produce billions of doses for the rest of the world, we got to wipe out this damn Chinese virus this year.

1 hour ago, Curt1591 said:

My wife is now having to visit the hospital, regularly, as follow ups to recent surgery. We have never been ones to like visiting hospitals. After all, they are filled with sick people. And, that's during the best of times. 

At Thai hospitals, many patients visit with an entourage - mothers, daughters, aunts, uncles, friends and plenty of children. This is extremely annoying. But, given the covid situation, it's nuts!

Just yesterday we visited a physical therapist at a major hospital. There were maybe a half dozen patients. But, there was a couple dozen family and friends mulling around. There were also kids, running wild, climbing on all the furniture, and touching everything within their reach. I can't think of more efficient disease spreaders! 

I think it should be the hospitals that are locked down / restricted! 

Agree entirely but don't think anything will change. It's the same when shopping, I go to Tesco and there's a family of 5 or 6 all standing there blocking the way while mum is actually doing the shopping, guess it's a day out for the whole family but not too smart in these times when we should be social distancing.

9 minutes ago, chrissables said:

I have that program, and it is good and quick, very quick. I idea was to try to learn a few more skills with Capture Express. But time i have lost going in circles is amazing and and a waste. I am sure it is me, but i fail to see any reason you can open an editor and not one editors slider will work. That should be impossibe.

I have Snapseed on my smartphone and it's very good. I recently d/l Snapseed to my Win 10 laptop. I've tried just about all the major photo editors, if one of them gives me any headaches I just remove it. If they're not user friendly forget it. 

chrissable: if you're using a Win laptop to edit jpegs try Picasa3 . It's the best I've ever used for basic photo editing. Very easy to use - crop, straighten, lighten/darken, sharpen/soften, some effects...all very fast & easy. I can whizz through a batch of jpegs spending 10-20 seconds doing basic tweaks on each. 

23 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

Is it possible to make a Thai will while iam living in the UK?
As i need need to write a will leaving my Thai wife my condo in thailand in the event of my death.

 

I made my Thai will in Thailand with Isaan Lawyers in Korat. It covers my Thailand assets only, and I have a separate will to cover my assets in Australia. So my suggestion to you is contact Isaan Lawyers, you should be able to do it online. 

14 minutes ago, Pravda said:

I am not taking Bill Gates vaccine that will microchip me and install Windows 97 inside my body. 

Could be worse, image getting Linux.

I'm now retired in Thailand on the retirement exts. Have about 25 years teaching experience in Thailand, mainly TEFL & ESP, have done the lot from kindy to uni, LCs to corporate inhouse. Been out of the profession for over 10 years now. No desire to teach in schools again but would enjoy doing some PT online work, but don't want to do anything that would effect my imm' status. 

Any suggestions/tips for me.

34 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

Sensible decision, giving it to health workers first who are the highest risk of catching and spreading it, and people over 60 who are the highest risk of dying. I am happy to wait for my vaccine and have them vaccinated first.
 

It will upset the anti vaxxer, anti Chinese crowd on this forum but it is a huge positive step to getting back to normal.

I hope it is effective against the new UK highly infectious super covid mutant strain that has unfortunately now spread to Queensland and Perth in Australia.
If it is effective I can see this nightmare being over by the end of the year. The economy needs it.

I wholeheartedly agree, but got to get those vaccines out and into arms. Does Thailand have the license for AZ yet? If so the country's pharmaceutical companies should be operating 24/7.