webfact Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Teaching now most popular career choice for children: survey By The Nation BANGKOK: -- MOST THAI children now want to become a teacher when they finish their studies, according to a survey, edging a career as a doctor into second spot after seven years at the top. The “coolest” job for youngsters is being a soldier, the 8th Annual Career Survey of Thai Children conducted by Adecco Group found, while parents remain their biggest idols. Most children said they dreamed of becoming teachers because they wanted to educate youngsters and teach them to be good people. A career as a doctor was knocked into second place for the first time, followed by soldier, athlete and police officer. Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30303857 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-01-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) "soldier" oh really...................why not a career as a village idiot, seems popular by me.... sorry for the future generation if "this lot" is "teaching" them thats for sure, parents remain their biggest idols.....................how cheesy is that, wonder if they really interviewed the kisd or not or just interviewed the indoctrination of Thainess head instead Edited January 10, 2017 by kannot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottocus Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The career you choose when you don't know what else to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckysilk Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The hub of teachers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick220675 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 My daughter has been educating her English teacher for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldroj Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 "...Most children said they dreamed of becoming teachers..." Probable, while they were in class !!! Then again, as George Bernard Shaw said (in "Maxims for Revolutionists"), "He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 The RTA and RTP need to do some image enhancement? I think just about any government job is highly desirable here given the generous benefits and relative light work-load? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 So where did "corrupt government official" move to on the list? I recall a fairly recent survey that had it as #1. Probably a different survey, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 What age was surveyed? As with all surveys how was the question asked?I was teaching the topic "Jobs, what I want to do" to P5 the other week. I had about 8 cartoon depictions of various jobs on the board."Soldier" had a cute puppy marching beside him. "Policeman" was riding a big motorbike.All the girls wanted to be soldiers, all the boys wanted to be policemen. Except one bright child, who announced out of the blue that she wanted to be a graphic designer - quite impressive for an 11 year old!I don't know about soldiers being cool - I was a soldier for many years, and I can remember being bl**dy cold on many occasions! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thai3 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) Those who can't do anything else teach, those who can't teach, teach gym. Not a bad choice here, job for life, loads of holidays and health and pension benefits, minimum effort. Edited January 11, 2017 by thai3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleMoooose Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 So the blind will lead the blind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo2014 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 They will have to learn before they can teach.... at least in theory :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxLee Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 5 hours ago, webfact said: Teaching now most popular career choice for children Yep, they can hit and punish kids and keep a straight face about it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debate101 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Headline ought to read "Thai Children Wisely Believe Working for Repressive State Better than Just Being Repressed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoon Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, thai3 said: Those who can't do anything else teach, those who can't teach, teach gym. Not a bad choice here, job for life, loads of holidays and health and pension benefits, minimum effort. One of a series of teacher recruitment parodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4slqDJaU6VU Edited January 11, 2017 by Enoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 The daughter of friends of mine said she wishes to be a teacher, I asked why? Thinking her reply might be something like she wanted to improve the standard of Thai children.. Her actual reply was it holds a good status position, has a reasonable salary, but best of all as it is a government post, it comes with health benefits for her & the family! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracker2000 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Research shows that abused children frequently become abusers in later life, so what better occupation for a young Thai who has been abused by their teachers, than to become a teacher. I believe that normally sadists have to pay big money for some male or female masochist to feed your particular fetish, but become a Teacher in Thailand and you can wail on boys and girls without consequence...and they will pay you! Why wouldn't they choose it as a career? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seahorse Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 5 hours ago, hotchilli said: The daughter of friends of mine said she wishes to be a teacher, I asked why? Thinking her reply might be something like she wanted to improve the standard of Thai children.. Her actual reply was it holds a good status position, has a reasonable salary, but best of all as it is a government post, it comes with health benefits for her & the family! I would say that the reasons she gives are the reasons are common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackinthebox Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 15 hours ago, UnkleMoooose said: So the blind will lead the blind. exactly. I wonder for example what those motorsaay-gang-kids later want to educate youngsters or how they teach them to be good people? Like: "How to tune your Honda Wave up to 17hp", "How to make your girlfriend make money for you", "how to waste your time playing billard" "how to avoid any kind of contraceptives"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 teacher teacher teacher...ngah, they want to aspire to educational administrators... now that is truly the cork .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Maybe it has something to do with the amount of days off work that they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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