Thailand Faces Alarming Graduate Unemployment, 65% Struggle to Find Jobs

[Ralf001]

10 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   It was you who wanted unemployed 18 years old to visit your house and earn some money doing an undisclosed unpublicised  job 

 

and it was you who projected your sick desires in response.

you need help.

[atpeace]

1 hour ago, Airalee said:

My experience was that I would hire a contractor for a specific job (painting for example)….they would then subcontract it to someone else who would then further subcontract it to a supervisor and workers.  It was absolutely ridiculous.  I went through 4 different painting crews that didn’t even have a notion of painting in a straight line and not slopping it on window frames and door frames that were a different color.  I did my best job supervising but my (now ex) girlfriend would chastise me for doing so.  One of the workers literally told her the following day that he was so stressed that he couldn’t even eat that night….and of course, it was all my fault 🤦‍♂️.

 

There wasn’t a single thing in my 2 million baht renovation that wasn’t a complete snafu.  From the painting, to the flooring, the kitchen, the countertops, the electrical….all of it.

 

I think that when you have the lowest iq people doing the work at the bottom of a chain of people taking their cut, you basically have monkeys doing the job.  Even trying to supervise them directly and showing YouTube videos of how a job is supposed to be done correctly I would be told “This is not how we do this in Thailand”. And when there would be times that they would say “yes…I understand”….they would then just continue as usual.   That is when Rampant told me that it’s just best to do the job myself.  In the end, with so many re-dos of things that I couldn’t do myself (such as the countertops that had to be replaced, wiring redone, etc etc….I doubt there was very much profit in it for anyone.

 

So…what does this have to do with university grads who can’t find jobs?   They should go into the trades and do things right the first time and at a level of quality (that requires some amount of intelligence/IQ) to where they can actually make better money…and much better than being a desk jockey where they probably don’t contribute much and have little job satisfaction.   Wishful thinking I’m sure because any manual labor is “low class” which is why you see them grow their pinky fingernails long as a sign that they don’t work with their hands.

 

Back in the US, I renovated a mid century modern doing the lions share of the work myself and I agree….the people who worked with me were for the most part useless with the exception of one contractor who lived in the neighborhood who would actually come, look at a job…and if it was something he thought I could do myself, he would recommend I do so.

Sensible post and I bet I'm a little more accepting of imperfections for better or worse.  Smiled at the GF comment.  I adore my woman and decided that a house wasn't worth recking a relationship. I live in a small Thai tourist town and people aren't familiar with westerners.  She accepts imperfection ( she is with me 🙂 )and is fine paying too much at times.  I've adapted 🙂

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

 

and it was you who projected your sick desires in response.

you need help.

 

   So, what work was you going to offer the young girls ?

Its not me who wants young unemployed girls to visit my house to do some "work" 

[proton]

8 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Hmmmmmmmmmm how to answer, none so blind  that they cant see. Or lets  say "standards" vary between people. Most work here is crap. Oh and to the other poster commenting on language abiliuty, doesnt matter what language you speak it makes no difference to the outcome of the job..........Wife spends  all day trying to find workers to do jobs  let me find some pics of what she sends me of Thai repair work....its comical.... here few  weeks  ago workman fittined new hob............. the quality shines thru! but wait let me guess its my Wifes  fault for this almost weekly occurence, and that of her friends in the same line of  business and all the other lnadlords she's known over the last 20 years. No wait again , let me guess, you get what you pay for right..........so 1000 baht for fitting a  hob in a hole thats already there. Got it, I mean it is a whole hours work  after all ( sarcasm off)ok last try "would you work for 1000 baht  a day" yes  happily as its  not relevant, in the UK Id  be happy to get double the usual daily rate..........  neve r mind Im  sure they can do grouting right ......oops maybe not.........as an insight wife rents rooms out as do all her friends this is the " quality" they normally get. Three different rooms, the last "leaking" one had been "fixed" days before............yes  siliocne fixes everything in Thailand, the room this happened in they gave up an asked me to fix it, I told them silocone wont fix  it you need to retile your balcony which had been done by the developer  years ago " badly" nas in most cases Thai tiling whilst looking pwetty is not done well, tap all the tiles in your hosue and see how many are  hollow..........They asked me to strip and retile their balcony in the end , which I did for free as they were nieghbours in the same building. The tiles literally fell off their balcony My Re tiled photos, 30+ years on construction in the UK. all these photo just in the last few months but this goes on month after month. The  leak in the ceiling the office told them was !silicone" round the neighbour aboves windows so they neatly resealed it............I told the neighbour it was the balcony tiling that was <deleted>, and as soon as I ripped the floor out there was a great big  tennis  ball sized hole under the tiles into the room underneath letting in water with heavy rain on their balcony..........never mind the office " fixed" it with silicone..........except it did nothing.

But my personal favourite and outright winner for the year is the fitting of an extractor fan, the owner of this room wanted it through the ceiling or boxed in but got this,,, several attempts mistakes  later the brackets  really make it shine......what she requested was in the last photo of a kitchen I did boxed in with REd section highlighted........Oh yeah I have  nothing to do with this quality work but I send  my Wife photos of what she wants to show them before any work is done. grout etc Last shots the balcony I was asked to fix, tuiles  fell off, floor  jet washed, sealed with pva and retiled with proper tile adhesive not slop cement.....hole in corenr that was letting in water UNDER the loose  tiles, that according to " maintenance" was leak round window (NOT)

 

 

Looks pretty typical for here. My best laughs were also tiling where he did not even use the correct trowel and adhesive, would not use spacers insisting string was better. An 'electrician' who when told to make sure a shower heater was earthed asked what that meant, and the patio extension cracked and falling away as is the roof over it. For some reason I have found them excellent at wallpapering though.

Edited 2 hours ago by proton

[Bobthegimp]

13 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

I asked what job she would do after getting her degree and she could not answer as she did not know

 

Waiting for her inheritance from you, of course!