If you are tempted to leave it all behind and come to Thailand to teach English then this may interest you...
But first, decide which camp are you in... There are two...Either you are coming to Thailand because you want to live here or you are coming to Thailand because you want to teach here. It's important to make this distinction, because if you are in the latter group of people (about 3%) then the rest of this article will be of no interest to you. If you are a professional teacher then everything will work out just fine. Your location is secondary to your profession. In fact if you DO choose the second option then you shouldn't be in Thailand anyway. Piss off to Japan, you do-gooder!
For the overwhelming majority of us though, we want to live here... and teaching English is how we do it. And it seems easy enough, right? Just hop on a plane, hunker down in a cheap room till a job comes along, say two weeks, then start, well... living in Thailand! What could go wrong, right?
55 baht to one Pound Sterling
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