Toiling in the tropics: The (unofficial) lowdown on jobs for foreigners

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Toiling in the tropics: The (unofficial) lowdown on jobs for foreigners
STEVE EDWARDS



Life in Thailand can be utter paradise for the average foreigner. Until you run out of cash

BANGKOK: -- Unless you’re a hedge fund high flyer or Father Dearest gave you a suitcase full of platinum cards and instructed you to fill your boots, you may be finding it hard to make ends meet in the Land of Smiles.

While the legalities and practicalities of finding an income source and a work permit as a foreigner in Thailand can be complex and ever-variable, tales are readily exchanged between Farangs of the friend-of-a-friend who’s scored a gig doing something bizarre down in Nakhon Si Thammarat for a few extra baht a week.

Here’s a shortlist of the various occupations – both legitimate and less so – that you may come across in Thailand and the pros and cons of each. If you’re sat in the Bangkok office of a booming multi-national right now, you may shortly start to feel pretty pleased with yourself…

Tropical bar owner

The dream job.

You saw Cocktail, you saw how happy Tom Cruise was, then wasn’t, then was again… and you thought “I very much want to do that.”

And so it transpired that you chucked all your savings at some shack by the beach on the Southern Thai peninsula and effortlessly morphed into a purveyor of alcoholic beverages.

It starts well. Everyone is laughing and joking and smiling and shagging. You are the most popular person in the world. People love you – you love people. Your social life is the best it’s ever been and you can mix every cocktail known to mankind – hell, you’ve even invented your own. Mornings are spent in bed, afternoons exploring undiscovered coves and beaches, and evenings drinking and drinking and drinking… and then playing a game of pool… and then drinking some more.

Full story: http://whatsonsukhumvit.com/working-in-paradise-jobs-for-foreigners-in-thailand/

-- (c) What's on Sukhumvit 2016-05-10

[Snackbar]

He missed off the contemporary vocations, that require no work on your part and thus aren't illegal.

Rental agent, advertise a run off the mill villa, condo, kazi for B800 a night on Agoda.

Get your Thai girl/boy to buy, on credit, a Vios, a Jazz or a Yaris then advertise it for rent for B800 ++ per day on F/B

Buy some questionable, widely available,electronic devices, DVD's, faux handbags, trainers, branded cologne or other worthless tat, mark them up and offer em to for sale to gullible netizens' on Ebay.

Coordinator, requires a minimal amount of work, and zero integrity.

Present a fake degree to an international school / English program, get a job as a language instructor. Creep , crawl, grass co-workers up, slither, slime and 'suck' your way into the coordinator's job. Perfect position for a spineless chancer with a small man syndrome.

Other numerous activities that cannot be mentioned here.

[gandalf12]

He missed off the contemporary vocations, that require no work on your part and thus aren't illegal.

Rental agent, advertise a run off the mill villa, condo, kazi for B800 a night on Agoda.

Get your Thai girl/boy to buy, on credit, a Vios, a Jazz or a Yaris then advertise it for rent for B800 ++ per day on F/B

Buy some questionable, widely available,electronic devices, DVD's, faux handbags, trainers, branded cologne or other worthless tat, mark them up and offer em to for sale to gullible netizens' on Ebay.

Coordinator, requires a minimal amount of work, and zero integrity.

Present a fake degree to an international school / English program, get a job as a language instructor. Creep , crawl, grass co-workers up, slither, slime and 'suck' your way into the coordinator's job. Perfect position for a spineless chancer with a small man syndrome.

Other numerous activities that cannot be mentioned here.

You have it wrong. The title included the words "jobs for foreigners"

[The Deerhunter]

No mention of Tour guide. That seems hightl popular lately, particularly with Chinese & Russians.

[Agent Sumo]

No mention of the boiler rooms either.

Highly lucrative and zero chance of getting pinched these days with the junta in control

[SoiBiker]

Nice piece. But they missed out 'Write list articles for a local website'.

[Dexlowe]

You once read a newspaper - print version. That should qualify you for a job as a sub editor at The .... oops, better not.

[DrTuner]

A-ha, somtamslap is writing for suk. I thought I recognized the style.