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Teaching In Thailand Teaching in Thailand can be a great career with salaries in the range of $2,500 to $6,000 per month, or you could become a TEFLer with a salary range of 350-500 pounds per month, no experience necessary.

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Old 29-08-2008, 11:03 PM   #21 (permalink)
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well, I know a [qualified] teacher in Thailand earning 120,000 Baht a month - which is about 10,000 Aus Dollars a year more than he was making as teacher in Bris.
exactly. I earn more o/s than I would at home, plus the benefits (imo) of living in Asia.
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Old 29-08-2008, 11:07 PM   #22 (permalink)
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I feel very sorry for people who elect to work in this sector of society: they serve a far better purpose than most and get fuck all - not even a "thank you" - in return.
My time teaching in the UK secondary schools was extremely rewarding, not financially, but I found it far more stimulating than working in a stuffy lawyers practise, which I have also done. Lawyer's practises are only one better than working in a morgue. (which I'm guessing as I haven't tried that one)

Teachers in the main don't get paid much. As I said in the OP, I guess that those that work as TEFLers here do it for other reasons. Up to them. The thing that struck me about Phil's comments were his misguided beliefs about how much TEFLers earn now. After all, he makes his living from TEFL trainers and recruiters and yet is completely out of touch with the facts about the industry.
While I would agree largely with what you have said about work in a law firm (it's a "firm", a "practice" is something one may do), it rather depends on the job you do and the area of law one works in.

I was very lucky and had over 10 years in Banking & Finance, which I loved, but others, such as my sister, thought the dullest thing in the world.

Horses for courses.
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Old 29-08-2008, 11:17 PM   #23 (permalink)
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I have been reliably informed that working in a morgue is a wonderful thing to do, always assuming that sort of thing is to your taste
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Old 30-08-2008, 12:05 AM   #24 (permalink)
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What about those poor non TEFL'ers that don't have a clue? What jobs do they tie down?
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Old 30-08-2008, 12:14 AM   #25 (permalink)
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no idea ...
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Old 30-08-2008, 12:18 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Nice OP edit Smeg.

Isn't that article from the website you 'visit for 5 minutes every month or so'.
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Old 30-08-2008, 12:20 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Old 30-08-2008, 12:23 AM   #28 (permalink)
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TEFL salaries are poor. IMO they are so simply because this reflects the professionalism and training involved.
So professionalism and training is responsible for your pathetically low wage Smeg?
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Old 30-08-2008, 10:19 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Why, if the amount is gross then it's about the average wage in the US (200K a month = around 5k)
60,000 dollars a year is not the average wage in the US. What on earth are you talking about?
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Old 30-08-2008, 10:25 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Old 30-08-2008, 10:32 AM   #31 (permalink)
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I think teaching as a whole in every country is a poorly paid profession.
If the money is important to you, don't do teaching.
If it makes you happy then do it.
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Teachers get great holidays though. Even then I respect anyone who makes a career of teaching, it can't be easy. I know I wouldn't have even half the required paitence.
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I think teaching as a whole in every country is a poorly paid profession.
If the money is important to you, don't do teaching.
If it makes you happy then do it.
Even more so in Thailand. Unless as others have pointed out, you have the qualifications that will allow you to compete for the higher paying jobs.

And if your job requires very little in terms of experience and qualifications, don't even imagine for a second that you should be on an even footing salary-wise with engineers, accountants and the like. Mr Guru himself BKK Phil doesn't even have a degree and he's flabbergasted that educated Thais are making more money than most of his TEFL brethren?
Funny.

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^sorry, as a univeristy educated person it is. I didn't make that clear.
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Teaching is hard work, particularly if you are doing 25 contact hours a week with primary kids.
Hats off to those who dedicate themselves to making a diffference
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^sorry, as a univeristy educated person it is. I didn't make that clear.
No offense, but that's complete BS, or perhaps one of those useless stats.

60K certainly isn't the average for teachers.
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You might say that but I could not possibly comment.
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Teaching is hard work, particularly if you are doing 25 contact hours a week with primary kids.
No it's not. I do 22 and it's so easy and so much fun it's laughable. We have excelent resources though, and I've had good training which has taught me how to fully organise and execute entertaining and educational lessons, and have the experience to feel totally at home entertaining while teaching 40 6 year olds. But it does take energy, someone who enjoys it (I can't imagine someone not enjoying it once they know how to do it) and someone who's dedicated to it and is actually happy in their life I feel.

Absolutely stress free job if you are naturally suited to it.

Unfortunately a lot, maybe even most, aren't. I wouldn't let half the teachers I work with 'educate' my kids if I had any.

I mean, imagine the likes of Smeg having a daily influence on your child... Scary, SCARY thought.
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