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Sgt Killjoy · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 438

If visiting the Thai consulate in Laos, make sure you have a background check on hand for both Thailand and your home country or else you will be sent back empty handed. Likewise, rumor has it that Penang is also requiring background checks before issuing a visa.

Good luck.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Going to be a mess for the Brits; if you've not been in the country the last three years you don't get one.

Khao San Road will have more work.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

AnchorMan · Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 45 Location: Bangjak, Bangkok

Well, your input has been much appreciated. To add to what you've mentioned, bombs have been exploded here in Bangkok. A one-way ticket out is seeming a more attractive option day by day.

Worldly · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 74 Location: The Cosmos

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

tedkarma · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:00 am Post subject:

I hear you Kent.

I've always felt that Thailand asked more of its teachers than almost anywhere else I have ever worked (the Middle East included!) and yet, paid less than almost anywhere else.

In fact, the only place I have EVER had to use a time clock (well, since 1969!), was a teaching job in Bangkok.

It's the only country I've ever been asked to do a demo lesson and found myself judged by inexperienced unqualifed teachers. Their four-week certificate outweighing my M.Ed., twelve years TEFL experience, and PGCE in TEFL.

It's the only country where I have been PAID LESS than I SAVED in every other country in which I have worked. (Geez, is that the right way to say that?).

I could add several more uh, less than pleasant experiences in the teaching world - but enough is enough.

Great place to live - sh*t place to work. Though the wage issue isn't just for teaching.

Uh oh, I guess it is poop on Thailand week.

But - I DO love my island . . . Come on down south Kent - I'll buy you a beer on the beach and we can b*tch and moan and get it out of the system - then back to work!

I have, btw, taken a job outside TEFL for the first time since 1992.

gypsywoman · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 63 Location: bangkok

Kent you have been a wonderful help to all that come in this forum, thanks heaps. I do agree with you though, the amount of dramas you have to deal with, all just to work here, its a bit crazy.
There must be somewhere nice to live that actually apreciate people trying to help their young ones!
I've been trying to get a another business going here and I swear its getting tougher in all areas here, its always been corrupt, but the red tape here is worse than it used to be for sure.
So Ted wheres that beach? haha. A cold beer, massage and stress reducing bitch session sounds pretty bloody good haha.
Cheers all and lets hope things get better soon or there will be a mass evacuation of all foreigners!
xxx

tedkarma · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

Gypsy,

My home is about 500 meters from Bang Tao Beach - Phuket.

Bring Kent down.

gypsywoman · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 63 Location: bangkok

Sounds like a good plan to me, get you sunblock packed Kent haha.

AnchorMan · Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 45 Location: Bangjak, Bangkok