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TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

Living and teaching EFL in Thailand won't give you the same feeling as being tourist in Thailand.

Work in North East Asia and take your vacations in Thailand IMO.

The reality of being an underpaid EFL'er lving and teaching in Bangkok and being a tourist is very different.

Other considerations include visa laws which can make living and working there difficult also.

Check out ECC Thailand at Siam Square - If you do their 1 month CELTA course, you'll be offered a 1 year contract and they'll give you cash back for the cost of your CELTA.

ECC sounds reputable as far as language schools go in Thailand.

I have a job offer with Assumption University but the wages would start at Baht 23,000 per month - and that's for a Master degree!!!

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

ps - Derrek, I was there last year and ran into a young American couple who had been teaching in Bangkok for a year and a bit but they were trying to get out and head to Korea.

Except they couldn't afford the cost of airline tickets to Korea!

You stay there long enough working for those kind of wages and you end up trapped there - unless you have savings to buy your way out.

Patong Dong · Joined: 06 May 2003 Location: On Nut

jajdude wrote: You need a TEFL? Not in 2001.

I interviewed in Phuket in late 2002 and was told that to get a work permit for being a teacher you had to have this. Now I know people who were working at hotels and other schools without permits but that's a risk both the school and teacher run.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Guess things have changed. No TEFL was necessary in 2001 where I was, or mentioned on job ads as far as remembered, though sometimes they were preferred. So now they are legally required for any job in Thailand? With the wages they offer they are being even more picky? Lots of people may want to go there thinking it would be great, but less than 30K baht is not easy when you're a westerner used to not watching every buck.