Mara tempts me with a job in Thailand
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:10 pm
Mara tempts me, with a job in Thailand
Ohh, Mara tempted me the other day, with dreams of easy Thai living, comparative wealth, and close proximity to a good monastery.
I was staying at Wat Pah Nanachat a few weeks ago, and I became friends with one of the local men who visits often.
He's a teacher at the local highschool, and after a few weeks of getting to know me, he asked if I wanted the job of English Language Teacher.
He said it would be no problem, and if I wanted it, it'd be mine. The school would organise the visa and everything.
I've taught before overseas, and have the degrees and experience to do a proper job, so it would have been good.
I would have been paid around 30,000 Baht, which by Issan standards is upper middle class, (and by Australian standards is far below the poverty line) and I could have had a whole house to myself for just 1500 baht if I looked around a bit.
A whole house! Rural Issan is cheap as cheap can be. Delicious Thai food, gorgeous Ubon women, fun job, and I would have bought one of those motorcycles with a sidecar attached.
Way cool.
But NO! I thought about it seriously for about an hour, and then recognised it was a blatant attack by Mara, trying to distract me from ordaining when I get back to Australia.
It wasn't a very good attack. Mara could have done a lot better if he had appeared as a cute brunette, with freckles, outdoorsy, educated, *sigh!*
Anyhow, I thought it was worth mentioning. Beware all those who intend to go forth! Be steadfast, and stick to your precepts!
(Off to Koh Mak tomorrow - crystal clear water, white coral sand, loads of Anna Kournikova lookalikes in bikinis on the beach...
Lucky I don't prefer blondes!)
Ohh, Mara tempted me the other day, with dreams of easy Thai living, comparative wealth, and close proximity to a good monastery.
I was staying at Wat Pah Nanachat a few weeks ago, and I became friends with one of the local men who visits often.
He's a teacher at the local highschool, and after a few weeks of getting to know me, he asked if I wanted the job of English Language Teacher.
He said it would be no problem, and if I wanted it, it'd be mine. The school would organise the visa and everything.
I've taught before overseas, and have the degrees and experience to do a proper job, so it would have been good.
I would have been paid around 30,000 Baht, which by Issan standards is upper middle class, (and by Australian standards is far below the poverty line) and I could have had a whole house to myself for just 1500 baht if I looked around a bit.
A whole house! Rural Issan is cheap as cheap can be. Delicious Thai food, gorgeous Ubon women, fun job, and I would have bought one of those motorcycles with a sidecar attached.
Way cool.
But NO! I thought about it seriously for about an hour, and then recognised it was a blatant attack by Mara, trying to distract me from ordaining when I get back to Australia.
It wasn't a very good attack. Mara could have done a lot better if he had appeared as a cute brunette, with freckles, outdoorsy, educated, *sigh!*
Anyhow, I thought it was worth mentioning. Beware all those who intend to go forth! Be steadfast, and stick to your precepts!
(Off to Koh Mak tomorrow - crystal clear water, white coral sand, loads of Anna Kournikova lookalikes in bikinis on the beach...
Lucky I don't prefer blondes!)
