53 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

Well OK but I know them from my Oil&Gas days in the 1980's and they were big players in domestic exploration and still are.

They are still a major player in the education field. They supplement Teacher's Retirement, but I was only employed in education for the last 12 years of my working life. Before that, it was chump-change jobs in the field of broadcasting. Deejays and newscasters who work in small cities do not earn much money. I took a chance, worked full time, while also working on a Master's Degree, and STILL did not get decent wages . until I took a job at age 52 with a university public radio station. If not for the awesome benefits, I would have been dead from cancer and a brain cyst. To those who arrogantly ask "what has he been doing all his life.?" There's your answer. Keep rolling in your smug superiority and I will keep trying to LIVE.  I know that the world is FULL of people who will always be asking: "I did it......why didn't YOU???"   Unbelievable.

2 hours ago, KhunFred said:

If you have 800 thousand baht to put in a Thai account, you are in much better shape financially than I have ever been. I have ALWAYS lived paycheck to paycheck. My savings were pumped into an annuity and State Teacher's Retirement plan. there is no "lump sum" option with those, you get a guaranteed amount for life just like Social Security

While I sympathise with you that your choices have left you with no reserve savings, they were your choices to make. You have clearly chosen to spend all that you got either on current living or paying into a retirement plan that is, at the moment, not what you need, so it looks as if they were not the best decisions to make.

 

So currently you have few choices left one is to hope that the income method requirements will return in some form, it could happen, the other is to find a way to borrow 800,000 Baht for 3 months. Those are the legal official ways.

 

I have never had to live paycheque to paycheque, neither have I ever had high paid jobs. I have been taught to follow, and have followed, Macawber's principal.

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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

So by following that I have managed to have sufficient savings and pension that the changes are no problem.

 

I have always lived on less than I earned. My choice, my happiness and ease of mind.

57 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

My choice, my happiness and ease of mind.

Well gee thanks for coming on here and letting all the ThaiVisa boys & girls know how happy you are.