Lae is 28 and has been making a living by working construction jobs and waiting tables in Bangkok for most of the past decade.
He is, at the moment, a taxi driver, a job he says is much less physically demanding than his previous occupations.
“I sit behind the wheel all night driving for four months, so it is going to take my muscles some time to adjust when I go home to Ubon Ratchathani to harvest rice at my farm,” he said. “But that is what