| "I'm not going to get into how an agency can help you or all of the scams that are out there or anything like that. It seems like there are a billion articles online about that already. It's also obvious that almost all agencies skim 2,000 - 10,000 Baht off the top of your paycheck which is fine by me because I still receive the average 30,000 - 38,000 per month.
The thing that nobody ever mentions is that if you sign a contract directly with a school you will get paid for your vacations. Wait? Come again... So let's do the math. There are about 9 months of classes but somehow 2.5 weeks are lost on either end which = 4 months of vacation. Even I do not know what to do with all of this time and would be willing to work at least an extra 2 months every year. We currently do not get paid for almost a third of the year. The reason I never got upset about this was because I assumed that nobody got paid for time they didn't work and everybody had the same vacation time. Wrong! Turns out that even though I make 38,000 a month, the teachers making 30,000 are actually earning more money because they get paid for all 12 months of the year but I get paid for 8. It's simple mathematics."
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