Will a master’s degree in linguistics put me above everyone else?
With your qualifications I can’t for the life of me think why you are considering Thailand when the salaries are going to be far better in other countries but possibly making money is not your main objective. You might try and set up a job with one of the proper and better paying international schools before you get here, but if you take a look at the ajarn jobs board, you’ll see that a 30-40,000 baht job is exactly that - you won’t get more because you have a masters degree. On another note, you’ll find that quite a few farang directors and recruiters (in Bangkok especially) won’t exactly drop to their knees and beg you to join the teaching staff. Very often teachers with an MA in linguistics tend to be theorists rather than good facilitators of an energetic, communicative language lesson.
