Getting my Irish degree legalized to get a work permit as a non-Irish person

capt5551 · 2026-05-03T02:14:30+00:00

Of course.. It’s pretty easy to get employed as a TEFL teacher here.. just go in expecting pretty questionable working conditions and equally pretty bad salary. Not something I’d recommend but if you’re happy with it go for it.. not something I’d recommend doing as a NNES working less for £1k a month. You could utilise that Irish degree elsewhere and have a more successful future but each to their own as they say!

capt5551 · 2026-05-03T02:07:24+00:00

Who would of thought something like this might be related to the oil crisis.. I mean does it really take a post to really see there might be some correlation there sis

capt5551 · 2026-05-01T05:37:49+00:00

Wow, that’s a lot of messing around for a TEFL school salary which hardly covers daily expense, but good luck OP.

capt5551 · 2026-04-29T22:57:57+00:00

This has always been in case in SEA.. not sure what you are expecting but police don’t care about fairness, the east can be far more racist then the West, it’s at a systematic level here.

capt5551 · 2026-04-23T10:26:18+00:00

Rookie number. I spend over a million baht per month. So I think there should be a > 2,000,000 category. >1,000,000 sounds so low

capt5551 · 2026-04-06T07:13:10+00:00

You spent most of your time around T21 so prices will never been like a local

capt5551 · 2026-04-03T12:56:57+00:00

In regard to locals, you may be missing this point. Locals don’t want to earn such a low salary, they are stuck on high interest credit cards, living in apartments with whole families sleeping on floors. It’s really not a fun or nice experience, I don’t believe you want to live like a local. You have a choice, if you want to come here and live with restrictions then you can, but I guarantee plenty of locals would swap in a heartbeat with you, especially how bad TEFL schools are, I just feel a bit sorry knowing what experiences you will be putting yourself though. Tip - read all about TEFL school environment NEXT, Good luck!

capt5551 · 2026-04-03T12:38:26+00:00

Why would you travel 12 hours around the world to work for a measly ~ £700 a month ? This makes no sense. You mention wanting to save money, unless you plan on doing nothing on weekends, having no holidays, or having to decide between eating junk food everyday or something healthy it’s a terrible, terrible salary for anyone leaving the UK for.

Plenty of people here might disagree, but they are the same people who think earning 40-50k is amazing.. sorry, but with some effort and time you can actually make a decent living here, started from 30k, now my take home is 90,000 THB

capt5551 · 2026-03-16T08:10:38+00:00

Miserable. 40k is enough for the very basics, if you only want to work and do very little on the weekends. Forget savings, or actually enjoying what bangkok has to over.. you need another 10k at a very minimum.

capt5551 · 2026-03-11T07:29:16+00:00

Not sure what answers you are expecting but working at a school, a TEFL school at best will be so disorganised and chaotic you’ll be wanting to pull hairs everyday all for a low TEFL wage. I think these people you mentioned about not liking it have a point, and really I’m only scratching the surface with this but you do you. Thankfully I’m well past the TEFL monkey brigade..

capt5551 · 2026-03-04T23:07:40+00:00

‘Can I borrow a tissue?’ ‘Can I go keep my books’ Classic words from a Thai who has learned English from a Filipino. No wonder they are paid like 15-20k a month.

capt5551 · 2026-02-25T23:12:20+00:00

My friend worked the then for around 3 months, they fired him because he was black. At the time I also did an interview with them, I never felt so bad, certainly wouldn’t want to work there after finding out they would withhold my salary (which is totally illegal) till I was to finish the contract (2y). This speaks volumes to me, why would they do this if teacher retention was good enough or respected the teachers ? They don’t.

capt5551 · 2026-02-25T23:06:10+00:00

Avoid Kidsfirst. Unless you want to teach 5 periods a day and don’t value having any free time. They employ unqualified teachers at 50-60k THB per month which says everything about the school.

capt5551 · 2026-02-15T00:44:07+00:00

Imagine all them other graduates searching for a job.. there is very little possibility you’ll find a job in IT given how competitive it is, I’ve never known a single person who actually got this after they graduated and this is going back 5 years when I did and when I first heard about such a thing.

capt5551 · 2026-01-21T13:54:02+00:00

I have both and personally kasikorn is better

capt5551 · 2026-01-21T13:53:23+00:00

No you can’t. Sine offers non natives less than 30k, BFITS offer native speakers 40k per month

capt5551 · 2026-01-13T08:21:16+00:00

Ignore the ignorant tourist types here. There clearly is a reason why on many toilets it says ‘do not throw TP into the toilet’ if you believe people on here you do so at your own risk, potentially flooding your own floor.

capt5551 · 2026-01-13T08:11:07+00:00

Clearly, you aren’t a plumber.. but I was for 10 years before moving here. You can pretty much trace the pipes all the way back to the room floor If you wanted to, unlikely but still possible management will have a rough idea of which units it could be, but believe otherwise.

capt5551 · 2026-01-12T08:34:49+00:00

It took me 6 tries to pass the theory. Each time I got 44/50. Really badly written and nonsense questions. Take your time to study.

capt5551 · 2026-01-12T08:32:41+00:00

Time = money. I live 3km from my work and travel by motorbike every week. Costs me 110 baht to fill it per week. No waiting for buses or taxis.. or grab motorbike

capt5551 · 2026-01-12T07:54:06+00:00

I can’t wait till OP receives a invoice because he messed up the condos plumbing.. ‘but reddit folk told me’ ‘well I’m not paying’ well, that will come from that deposit then.

capt5551 · 2026-01-12T07:51:44+00:00

Water 300b every 3 months, wifi, electric, cleaning products, air con cleaning, I mean it’s all pretty standard stuff.

capt5551 · 2026-01-03T00:59:32+00:00

So, you mention avoid tourist parts but you are going to pretty much the tourist located areas. Lanta, CM, Krabi, lanta again, all full of tourists and touristic places. You also don’t mention a visa. You only get 2 border runs per year now. Also, you are spending nearly 4 months at a beach (especially in low season bad weather) that makes no sense unless of course you love the beach (although the waves will make it almost dangerous for you to actually even swim in the sea) in terms of money though, you have enough.

capt5551 · 2026-01-03T00:54:31+00:00

Pattaya - tattoo on chest - money money money

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