Thai Managers Earn 10 Times Employees' Pay
This was in the Bangkok Post today:
"China, Thailand and Vietnam have the largest gaps between low- and high-paid workers in the world, according to a global study released Thursday by a management consulting firm.
Management last year made 11.8 times more than average staff in China, where the pay gap grew from 10.5 the year before, the Hay Group said. The rise pushed China from third place to first in the world rankings.
Vietnam's pay gap narrowed from 11.7 to 9.8, improving its rankings from the worst to third. Thailand remained second as it saw its pay gap rise from 10.6 in 2006 to 10.7 in 2007."
It's wishful thinking but I sure wish that companies in Thailand would pay more. I think it's easy finding a job here, but it's so difficult finding a job that I can be happy in.
I really want to work in the media industry here but when I look at what they are offering and what private global corporations are paying for Journalism or Communications graduates, there's just too much of a gap. I know, I sold my soul to corporate for money. I'm greedy and ambitious, what else can I say?
Part of it is because I'm always putting pressure on myself to do better, it's quite tiring, really. I always think that I should be earning more considering what I could be getting if I worked abroad.
I didn't expect to earn much anyway when I decided to major in Journalism. But I didn't think how ridiculous it would be in Thailand. Back then, when I was younger, and deciding for college what I wanted to become. I said to myself that money shouldn't be an issue. It should be what I love doing. I was hopeful and naive. But it does matter now. For me at least, since I have to pay everything myself. And although I don't have a family right now, I do know that I have to support other people later.
Sometimes I wish I was born rich so money wouldn't have to be an issue.
I need a job that's meaningful. And by meaningful, it doesn't mean saving tons of money for the company by developing a business platform that saves cost internally. Although the company I'm in does try to develop innovations for society, I'm not the one doing it hands-on.
Anyway, I'm trying to find some freelance writing jobs.
"China, Thailand and Vietnam have the largest gaps between low- and high-paid workers in the world, according to a global study released Thursday by a management consulting firm.
Management last year made 11.8 times more than average staff in China, where the pay gap grew from 10.5 the year before, the Hay Group said. The rise pushed China from third place to first in the world rankings.
Vietnam's pay gap narrowed from 11.7 to 9.8, improving its rankings from the worst to third. Thailand remained second as it saw its pay gap rise from 10.6 in 2006 to 10.7 in 2007."
It's wishful thinking but I sure wish that companies in Thailand would pay more. I think it's easy finding a job here, but it's so difficult finding a job that I can be happy in.
I really want to work in the media industry here but when I look at what they are offering and what private global corporations are paying for Journalism or Communications graduates, there's just too much of a gap. I know, I sold my soul to corporate for money. I'm greedy and ambitious, what else can I say?
Part of it is because I'm always putting pressure on myself to do better, it's quite tiring, really. I always think that I should be earning more considering what I could be getting if I worked abroad.
I didn't expect to earn much anyway when I decided to major in Journalism. But I didn't think how ridiculous it would be in Thailand. Back then, when I was younger, and deciding for college what I wanted to become. I said to myself that money shouldn't be an issue. It should be what I love doing. I was hopeful and naive. But it does matter now. For me at least, since I have to pay everything myself. And although I don't have a family right now, I do know that I have to support other people later.
Sometimes I wish I was born rich so money wouldn't have to be an issue.
I need a job that's meaningful. And by meaningful, it doesn't mean saving tons of money for the company by developing a business platform that saves cost internally. Although the company I'm in does try to develop innovations for society, I'm not the one doing it hands-on.
Anyway, I'm trying to find some freelance writing jobs.
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