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  1. I have obtained multiple work permits for English language musicians to work in my business. Other resorts and bars have done the same, as well as English language (or other language) guest service managers, western/foreign food chefs, yoga instructors, and (as I noted in an earlier post in this thread) specific language social media and marketing managers. So, yes, I think so provided the job description is well articulated to say that the language skills and cultural knowledge is essential to the job.
  2. If any of his businesses cater to foreign tourists, the title of "English Language Social Media and Marketing Manager" is likely viable, assuming that's something you can do. It's a real job that tourism businesses actually hire for. Write the job description as requiring native English speaker (which is a legit qualification for English marketing and advertising, which generally requires an understanding of language specific idioms a d nuance). And it credibly carries a managerial title and job functions.
  3. Not as cheap as 10 years ago! ???? Lots of discount packages now. This is basically the case many places around the world at the moment. Hotels that use online booking sites (Agoda, etc.) cannot offer rooms for less than the prices on the booking sites (per the contacts with the hotels. This is why online booking sites can boast "lowest available prices.") But, *packages* are excluded from those contracts. So many many hotels are now offering packages that net out to be cheaper than the booking sites nightly rates (and as a way to get around the booking sites' covid refund policies, which are kinda untenable for the smaller hotels). So thing to do is find places on booking sites that look good to you, and then find them on the web and contact them directly to ask about packages. If you want a longer stay, ask about doing a custom package - so long as the package includes something other than a room (snorkeling, a dinner, massage, boat ticket, etc.) it's a "package." This is not a great long term biz model for hotels, but it's necessary at the moment. (And, I am not a hotel owner offering this advice; just someone in the industry with insight).
  4. Lipe is open. Busy for the holidays (about 60% of pre-pandemic levels) with a sharp drop as of yesterday. But still waaaaaay busier than October. Not all biz survived, but those that did are open. Veg/vegan menus in several restaurants. Many people diving now. As of today, need to show a vax certificate (or Thai Pass), or recent negative PCR or ATK test (72hrs or less) to come to the island. Speedboats leave from Pakbara Pier to Lipe daily at 11:30am and 1:30pm ????
  5. Hi - Joe and Jack are correct. I live on Koh Lipe. Immigration here is closed now because land/sea border with Malaysia is closed. But even when it's open, extensions must be done on the mainland. You can do an extension at the Satun Town immigration office if you hire a car to/from the Hat Yai airport, and stop at Satun Town immigration on the way. Or if the extension is needed in the middle if your stay on Lipe, one of the travel shops here can arrange to take you from Pakbara Pier to Satun and back to the pier again. Requires an overnight on the mainland due to current boat schedule. There's a "Koh Lipe Locals" FB group you can join to ask more questions.
  6. Re traveling around Thailand: Expect that it will be inconsistent from place to place, and even from time to time in the same place, as a lot depends on who is manning the post. At the moment, to come to Koh Lipe, you need a vax certificate or you need a less than 72hr test result, or to take a rapid test at the pier. Will that hold over time? Get more stringent because of Omicron? Be fully abandoned for the holidays? Who knows. But, prepare for all possiblities.
  7. I got 2 sinovac in early summer, and just got an AZ booster ten days ago. I live/have a business in a tourist area, which have been prioritized for vaccines. Access for Thais and foreigners here was the same.
  8. Ten years ago, when I formed my company, the practice was more casual and we did not need to prove the capital investment through documentation. Affidavit was sufficient. As ubonjoe pointed out though, the rules have changed recently and my understanding is that they are now asking for documentation to show the actual capitalization in a company account. It's become an issue for some existing companies I know that want to add additional work permit holders, but don't have additional capital to infuse. As far as I know, the amount is 2m baht per work permit.
  9. Be a lawyer (well, a counselor/arbitrator here for foreigners), or a doctor, university or grad school professor, advertising executive, account manager for a multinational... I think you missed the larger point of my post. You need to do a job that would warrant a high salary, same as in any country, really. Thailand has all those jobs too. Stock broker, fund manager, product development, scientist, engineer, architect, etc. All the same jobs as any place else, in BKK as a metropolitan area, anyway. In America, you may make... $15k USD a month as a brand manager for a major company, in Thailand, the salary may be 80-100k a month for a similar position. But it's essentially the same analysis. The world of white collar work is the same here as anywhere.
  10. Be an entrepreneur, build business that allows you that amount of take home a month (how a lot of us do it). The legally mandated minimum wage in Thailand varies a bit by province, but is generally about 10k a month. The legally mandated minimum salary in Thailand for a foreigner working on a work permit is 50k a month. Because foreigners working here should be doing jobs that the average Thai person - or even the average Thai university grad - is not qualified to do (and thus not taking jobs away from otherwise qualified Thais). So, if you want to have a job and earn a salary that's 8 times the minimum wage, you should be qualified to be a high level manager, a professional, a specialist, etc., and be at least functionally multilingual. The possibilities are too numerous to write down. But the main thing is, there should be a reason on paper (not just personality) why an employer should hire you as a foreigner (with the attendant extra costs and hassles that come with employing foreigners) over a similarly situated Thai person. As someone who has employed foreigners before, you actually do need to justify the hire of a foreigner in these terms to the labor department and immigration. (Yes, I am sure there ways to get around it, but that's not how I have gone about it).
  11. I had my second (SV, only option) shot June 10 (I am in a rural southern province). Yesterday I picked up a photocopy (they keep the original at the local hospital) of my vaccination certificate. Its got a QR code that links to the national database. Timeing probably depends on your location too. Certificate lists batch numbers for the jabs, and is in Thai and English. I think because foreigners are not included in Mor Prom, it takes a bit of time for your data to be entered and the certificate made.
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