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Does anyone know anything about this town, or have experiences there? All I've been able to find out online is basically that it's 700 yrs old, had 43k people in 2000, and has ruins and a big wall. I was pretty much offered a job teaching there tonight. I was rather surprised when the phone rang and it was one of the schools I had applied to... the accent is kind of hard to understand over the phone. But she had someone call me back a little bit later (a native English speaker) who I talked to for a while.

Anyways, it's for 28k/month, teaching science and math to grade 7 students (~35 kids/class) at a government school. 15hrs teaching per week, and I'll have to be at school the full day. It's a new program (teaching science in English) at this school, so they don't have much in the way of materials, so I imagine there'll be a fair bit of lesson planning involved.

Does this sound like a reasonable position? Any points you can think of that I should clarify/find out? I know people say to be careful about accepting the first job offer you get... but if it's a good one there shouldn't be a problem...

Thanks for anything you can tell me... I'll need to get back to them within a few days to let them know my decision, and in the mean time I have a contact there I can ask questions of.

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I think maybe a bit larger of a city would be more suitable for me. Doesn't have to be Bangkok, but I need stuff around me!

I don't know that I could handle 160 hours of actual teaching a month, even if they paid 75k instead of 28k for 60. But it does seem on the low end of the pay scale.

I was told (yes the guy I spoke with is a teacher) that last year (the first year of the MEP science program) they basically changed his course content half way through (added in geophys or something). And yes, there would be... "a lot of freedom"... on my part on what I tought.

contract: 1yr
visa, work permit [who pays?]: ?
any insurance? no
holidays/sick days/days of leave? ?
bonus? ?
overtime? ?
any other farangs there? 5 i think it was

I sent an email asking a bunch of questions and am waiting for a response. Tonight I received another call from a school in Phitsanulok offering 33k for 16hrs max per week of math/english (again in school all day), but she gave a lot more details than the first one (visa/wp refund after contract, 3-4weeks paid holidays in October + Thai public holidays, 15 sick days, no insurance). Phitsanulok seems a larger/more fun place to be, but I still need to find out more details about both positions.

It'd be nice if there was a post somewhere outlining sort of the standard minimum entry-level job package for Thailand in general (or outside of Bangkok at least - it's probably about the same, just higher in BKK). Something like, if they offer much less than this, don't take the job even if you're dying to live in XXXX.

Oh, also the highest offered wage position I applied to was for 40k in Bangkok, so over 30k for outside of that city doesn't seem too bad... right??

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