I just finished my last proctoring session, so no more of that for two months. I tend to use this site to vent, so in all fairness to the Thai teachers, most of them are very nice, and highly educated. I guess there are assholes wherever you go (the particular asshole from the other day happens to be the head of the Thai computer science program).

One nice guy spent six years in America getting a PhD from Illinois Institute of Chicago in computer science. He turned down a $75,000 a year job at Motorolla because he had to come back and work for the university, since they paid for his education. They require four years for every year of study, so he’ll be here for 24 years, earning $6,000 a year.

That may be an unbelievable amount of time akin to indentured servitude, but, this is about as good of a teaching job you can get in Thailand. Because it’s a private university, the pay is higher than at the more prestigious government universities.

Still, I’m glad I don’t have to stay here for 24 years. Heck, I’ll be lucky to finish my two.

Tonight I pack, and tomorrow I fly to Vietnam. It amazes me that by taking an 80 minute flight, I will end up in a totally different place that will be nothing like Thailand. There is so much diversity packed into a small area in Southeast Asia.