joekicker

Yes, have to agree with sabaidii2 that this was not your finest moment. .

Please. ESL teaching is the very bottom rung and 95 per cent of the time is not a real job. It's a way for many to get by while they have fun, or while they try to get a real job. There are a very few "real" ESL jobs, but in general it's the equivalent of working at McDonald's -- a survival thing, not in any manner a career or a stepping stone to a career. I'm sure the OP and this thread didn't mean to get into "how to survive in Thailand". The sensitive OP was about getting an actual job before he broke into tears and got depressed. No offence to the few ESL experts in real and important teaching positions, you very few people -- who undoubtedly have a very different job title than "ESL teacher" anyhow. .

Yes, of course there are quite a few farang ekeing out a living. Who would deny such a thing? I know quite a few of them who not only eke out of a living but are worse off than that. But that's not what you said up ^^^^ there, where you very strongly said that a person who found a job in Thailand would not have health insurance, and wouldn't have it after he retired. That is possible. It is also quite possible a person taking a job in Thailand, foreign company or Thai company, WOULD have such things. If a person gets a job in Thailand, with foreign or Thai company, it is quite possible he will have health insurance, including after he retires - ESPECIALLY now with the 30-baht medical plan and social security. It is ALSO possible you won't have these. My advice after your post was to consider all of this when you take a job, because there are LOTS of jobs with good medical insurance included -- and I know that as a fact, if you catch my drift. And there are lots of jobs without it. .

Whoa! Health care is COMMON in the Thai workplace. By all means, it's something to consider when taking a job. Look into it and choose carefully. It's certainly possible to work in Thailand and have no health care. But your blanket statement is way, way out of line and simply not within reality. I want to stay anonymous here, but let's just say I am intimately familiar with this subject. This is one possibility. Another possibility is you have full, total complete health care for 10 years after you retire and then for the rest of your life a gold 30-baht health card at the hospital of your choice including being referred for quintuple heart-bypass surgery at the top hospital by the doctors who attend the King. For nothing. Well, okay, 80 cents US if you have to have the operation. This is not theory. .

General answer, yes, definitely hard. But hundreds have done it, and over the past 50 years thousands have done it. I don't mean to be mean, but I doubt if even one of them actually started his job search on a mongers' forum. Literally? Of course. In this forum? Odds are something like a million to one against it. Anyone looking for a job isn't going to help you, is he? Anyone offering a job isn't going to come to this forum to offer it - this is a forum for mongers, not exactly a source of dedicated and qualified employees. You CANNOT work as a barber in Thailand. It is one of the officially restricted occupations the guys were referring to above. Forget it. You won't be a driver, there are tens of thousands of Thais, no shortage, who can drive all kinds of equipment, ALL kinds from tricycles to airplanes, and you won't take one of their jobs.... well, if you work really, really cheap you might get a job driving airplanes, that's about it. Good luck with your quest, but you really are in the wrong place in this forum. Try Australian companies that do business in Thailand. Try Thai companies with foreign employees. Try forums like Thaivisa.com that do more than guide people to excellent puxxy bars. Your post above has *no* useful job qualifications for Thailand, so try to do a better resume, that's my advice. .

Have we gone multi-lingual officially? .

Good luck there was no one there right when you wanted to take all the photos. Can serious buyers look at the books? .

Well, the claim is that Loxley didn't have enough security people to have full security under the old system, but they do under the new, consolidated system. They might be right - so that would improve security. I haven't heard any complaints, so MAYBE this consolidation has also expedited the process -- or not made it worse to the point anyone complains. .

I'm sorry. Some IDIOT posted above that the video links had been removed by some of the board around here. I didn't check but just took the ridiculous wanker's word that it had actually been removed by "some board mods". I'll try to triple-check such ridiculous allegations by fly-by-night posters next time. .

Probably removed because of the copyright viol... questions. Lot of work for a personal grudge, or am I missing something? .

Let's go to Pattaya and drink some daiquiris??? A know a gimmick can be helpful but this seems weird.

They have queues of them now? Now THERE is a reason to wish to be younger. .

Good for you. And on an other serious note, do "British" people really have to provide a new birth certificate for each passport? .

No, you do Emil. Bangkok airport has one security checkpoint. IN ADDITION, several of the airlines operate their own security setup. If you use United at Gate 2 for example, there is a United security check at that gate after the airport check and before you are allowed into the boarding area. The airport has nothing to do with that (second) security. United (and some other airlines) ALSO have security at check-in -- bags are x-rayed BY UNITED and some passengers are singled out for full baggage checks before they are allowed past check-in and into immigration. So if you fly United out of Suvarnabhumi, you face a possible four security checks, "possible" because you may actually be unaware of the first two. - all bags (suitcases, non-carry-on) through x-ray before check-in, by United Airlines, - both bags and body during check-in, but only on a spot basis, by United - official airport security after immigration by the security firm hired by AoT, and - a final United security check at the actual departure gate, focussed on the carry-on bags. I'm only using United as the example because you did. Other airlines do much the same. Many/most airlines do none of the above, and trust the Airports of Thailand contractor to handle security at the single post-immigration, pre-departure-gate location. The actual airport security, provided by the Loxley-ICTS consortium, a private joint-venture firm, is centralised. .

The standard unit is a metre long by whatever width of the material. Material including silk has several standard widths, but the price charged is by the length-wise metre unless otherwise agreed upon. .

That will put it neck-and-neck with the release of Duke Nukem Forever, then. Sorry for the geek reference but I couldn't resist. Translation for non-geeks: Why do they even think anyone believes them? The only possible way to restore ANY credibility is to get into the left seat and fly the thing. Until then, no one will believe you. .

Again, we run into the dreaded imported food problem. Thailand doesn't have wheat. You want flour, you have to pay. Most Mexican restaurants in Thailand either use rice flour or only have corn tortillas, which they have to make from scratch. 100 baht for a wheat-flour tortilla just isn't that much. It's just like you have to pay fair baht to get a decent loaf of bread - while the doughy crap in the supermarkets is all cut with rice and tapioca flour and starch. .

Hard to imagine anything that says "Mexico" more than Kurt Colbain and John Lennon. Thanks for the good review and particularly the photos, which really help to put it into context. .

THAI definitely *has* to trust the security staff - it would be a devastating blow if the national airline didn't trust the national security operation. That said, for all its Thailand flights, THAI has not often been targetted. .

Yes, that's roughly right. Except you left out the reason for that, too, and the reason is "no market". Do they grow rice in Europe? Do they have a lot of black chickens there? Do the Italians make chow mien long-life noodles? And also, yes. Clues are freely available on this question in any supermarket. .

The reason is that the ingredients, especially the cheese, are imported, and imported food has very heavy duties. So now you understand. .

Actually not. His daughter is in complete charge of the magazine and has been for quite some years. She has put stuff in the mag he did not approve, this we know. .

The second security check at the gate, if there is one, is totally under the airline's control. Several of the big airlines do this. It's actually a vote of no-confidence in the AoT and Suvarnabhumi, which in my opinion is deserved. There are not many airports where you see this, but Bangkok has always had a horrible security reputation. Probably the biggest problem is that there are several agencies "in charge" at the airport, and they all give their own access passes and they all don't tell anyone else what they're doing. There have been shocking and fatal security breaches at BKK, including a bomb put on an airplane (blew it up) by airport police, and a hijacking made possible by weapons-stashing in the plane by the cleaning staff. .

vidman, listen up. These people can definitely help you. NADT

I bet you could name one.