My short story

[Pistachio]

Hello all members.

I want to share my story with you all. And maybe get some other view from your sides according to your experiences. 

The first time I came to Thailand approx in 2016. I worked for one power energy company based in Czech Republic (east Europe). It was great. I lived in good hotels, have a driver, have a good salary have a lot of fun. It was a great time. I stayed and worked there for around two years, in Thailand and mainly in the last few years. I got the project and other neighbors counties but only for a short time. I worked as Technical Field Advisor, so we built new powerplants middle size only around 200 MW. 

After two months stayed in Thai, I found my Thai wife. I appreciate that she was an exceptionally well-situated working woman with a house car and a shop she runt many kinds of business is in her blood. We married after two years of staying together we traveled a lot a whole SAE. 

After two years, my home company was willing to skip my life in THAI a moved me to another project in England. I don't understand why because I can still have more projects for the next two years in Thailand. I think some of my colleagues have a problem that I am staying in one country so long and can stay with my wife while they have to be alone at project understand three months - 1 year with short break fly back to Europe.  Maybe I suppose wrong.

So I said my company NO, and I left my job. My wife and I want to stay in Thailand, and she agrees we stay together. After that, I try to find a job there, but it is no possible for me. I feel pretty frustrated why I cannot find some job there before I built project in amount 10-15 mil euro and now I am not able to find employment as toiled maid there. Also, when we do marry visas, it was a bad experience with emigration. The information was not clear and so on. So I feel like this county welcomes me only if  I stay in Pattaya and shop and pay for something, but living there is tough. 

So my wife got pregnant, and I got a lovely healthy son which born there. I stayed in our house and took care of our son, a wife who worked. I said about this situation because I have to work as a husband, not a wife. To my surprised, my wife does not have a problem with it, but I had. So we stayed like this one year but cannot wait any longer is make me crazy to stay home and don't have a job. 

We decided to move back to Europe. We stayed here for two years now, and I started missing Thailand. So we rent our house in Thailand, and my wife takes care of the home and the kids, she was born one more boy here in Europe.

My wife said is good we are in Europe because they can study here better university than Thailand in case the will want to learn. But when we are older, she wants we will come back to Thailand. 

I worked as a project manager here now, and life is one round work, kids, work, kids. I got what I want before, but I do not feel fulfillment. In my dream, I would like the same job I have here, but in Thailand, with the same salary, I have now. 
 

[Kwasaki]

55 minutes ago, Pistachio said:

I would like the same job I have here, but in Thailand, with the same salary, I have now. 

Dream on.

[bermondburi]

Life is often about compromise. At today's exchange rate I'm earning 235k Baht a month. If I got this salary in Thailand for sure I'd be there, but I don't so I'm not. But I believe it's worth it so we can have a better future in Thailand later. 

 

The grass isn't always greener.

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, Pistachio said:

I worked as a project manager here now, and life is one round work, kids, work, kids. I got what I want before, but I do not feel fulfillment. In my dream, I would like the same job I have here, but in Thailand, with the same salary, I have now.

This is just my opinion, and I don't even have kids, but it seems like once you have them, your life should really be all about them.  Clearly your kids will have a better life in Europe, at least education and career wise (this seems to be increasing over time as well).  If it's just about missing Thailand, and you have a job and are stable, maybe just suck it up for your kids sake.  If you were in Thailand, I could understand the unknown of moving to Europe, finding somewhere to live, a stable job, etc., would be a real worry.

 

Maybe just be a dad for 18 years, grind it out for your kids' sakes, get a good pension, then retire/move to Thailand once the kids are old enough?

[FritsSikkink]

If you are an international PM try to use the spell check option, when you write about something serious. 

[jak2002003]

Seemed a rather long story no a short one. 

 

Nice story though. 

[chuang]

You seemed to be more blessed than many...be contented.

[Pistachio]

13 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

If you are an international PM try to use the spell check option, when you write about something serious. 

Yes, you are right. I bit hurry up with writing.

[Pistachio]

15 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

This is just my opinion, and I don't even have kids, but it seems like once you have them, your life should really be all about them.  Clearly your kids will have a better life in Europe, at least education and career wise (this seems to be increasing over time as well).  If it's just about missing Thailand, and you have a job and are stable, maybe just suck it up for your kids sake.  If you were in Thailand, I could understand the unknown of moving to Europe, finding somewhere to live, a stable job, etc., would be a real worry.

 

Maybe just be a dad for 18 years, grind it out for your kids' sakes, get a good pension, then retire/move to Thailand once the kids are old enough?

Thanks for comment!