Drying Rice in Thailand

I ‘talk’ to between 600 > 1000 students per week and am shocked how little they know of what’s happening outside of Thailand.


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You are what you see. You surround yourself with shyte and that is what you see. No worries mate as your myopic pessimism is well served and is shared by many on this forum.

To write what you wrote about youth discounts the reality of many. Obviously many that you have no interaction with who don't sit around in bars, discoteques and assorted western hangouts.

If this is how you really feel then I pity your son along with the youth of other forum members who have chosen to create and/or raise their children or their partner's children in Thailand and elsewhere.

I have three kids in the States.
Number one's a primary school teacher.
Number two is the CEO of an online merchandise business.
Number three is in graduate school attempting to obtain a doctorate.
Obviously all three are lazy and resort to crime.

Here I support two ladies of my gf in their educational career pursuits.
One (22) has obtained a certification of basic accounting and now works on growing an existing shrimp farming business.
The other (17) wants to be a civil engineer. At present she's on a Surin government construction site 7 days a week basically working (although realistically uncompensated) as a trainee foreman.
Again both are lazy and resort to crime.

You can negate the reality of what this country's youth was when you arrived and the reality of opportunities available when you decided to make Thailand home and what they face in today's world ...and you can also basically say the same for all youth globally.

This is what makes this forum so wonderful. The strong sharing of diverse opinions and intelligent discussion among Old Age Pensioners.

Cheerfully I'd rather not agree with pessimists, hypocrites and haters particularly when they've chosen to live a country and choose not to associate with its citizens who have a higher educational capacity. My choice not yours. Carry on.
 
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Good on you, Coffee. Thanks for the detailed reply (yes, I did understand that too)
Have a good day.


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Jeez Coffee!!!!!

I stand by what I wrote...2 factual sentences from what I have SEEN and read.

So many of the young today, Thailand or elsewhere, are just lazy. They want easy money, which is not available, so many just do nothing, and resort to crime

I did not say "ALL". I used the word "MANY" and I was not just speaking for Thailand.

Open any rag of a newspaper...(they report all the crime, gang rapes etc). Everyday you will see what the young worldwide have been up to.

Maybe all the youngsters in Surin are model kids - or at least the ones you come into contact with. Not so unfortunately in Prakhonchai and the surrounding area where I happen to reside. Village gang fights regularly, dozens of youngsters on drugs, no work, and only looking for easy pickings.


I have 5 kids to your 3 Coffee. You can be rightly proud of your 3

Of my 5, one is a business Manager in the Phillipines, one a former prima ballerina is now an accounts director for a large company in the UK, whilst the 3rd is Admissions Manager for a Thai International school. My 4th is at University and wants to be an airline pilot and my youngest is still at school.

I think I have done quite well also in raising my kids! I don't concern myself with others kids directly, but I cannot help but observe.

My comment was quite simply what I see around me, (naturally I do not see those who are gainfully employed and leading good honest lives - they are away from the villages)) and in the context of what was earlier referred to, that many of the young of today would likely as not want to take over rice farming from the elders. Some can do and do do far better, but others, would not lift a finger to help.

I have my view, you have yours...so lets just leave it at that!

 
Prakhonchai Nick said:
Jeez Coffee!!!!!
I stand by what I wrote...2 factual sentences from what I have SEEN and read.
So many of the young today, Thailand or elsewhere, are just lazy. They want easy money, which is not available, so many just do nothing, and resort to crime
Open any rag of a newspaper...(they report all the crime, gang rapes etc). Everyday you will see what the young worldwide have been up to.

My comment was quite simply what I see around me, (naturally I do not see those who are gainfully employed and leading good honest lives - they are away from the villages))
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Quite right Nick on both points.
(1) Same with any rag of a newspaper. The media covers the shyte to sensationalize an issue. It doesn't provide balance.
I'd suggest a different point of reference for information gathering.
(2) What you see in your village is the "leftover" chafe...not the "employable" wheat.
Issan has long been an economic deficiency zone from a western perspective in this developing country since long before you arrived forty years ago.
It's the same as it always was longing for a miracle.

No worries Nick , if it ever really gets going sideways for you in Prachonchai I'm sure there are plenty of young ladies ('youth') with sick grannies or buffalo that are willing to do the nasty and bring a washcloth when you're finished which we both know would not be an easy fulltime job.
(Just take some Viagra and relax. ;) )

So as far "as many of the young today" - do you think it is just your five and my three propping up the social scheme programmes of our native lands ...or do you believe the majority of the youth are actively pursuing an employable career? :rolleyes:
 
Having cracked a tooth on grit found when chomping down on a bowl of Khao Suay, I'm not sure whether to visit a dentist or a road construction business!
 
Merlin said:
Having cracked a tooth on grit found when chomping down on a bowl of Khao Suay, I'm not sure whether to visit a dentist or a road construction business!
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The Dentists work might last longer than 6 months. Same could not be said of the other!


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Still pumping water into our fields !


Still, the missus did get 15 Baht a kilo for the last of last year's stock.
 
They capped it last year but we still had to pay 600 to get the guy to turn up !!
 
mahdam said:
How much are you paying per Rai for the harvester GL? Sis in law tells us the goverment has capped the price at 550 per rai this year.
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600 per rai and no waiting. The local village cop owns two and his wife is the village Grand Poobah who the owns the land next to us and is involved in CRU. They worked up until 10 last night. I shall know latter how much more to go.
 
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600 per rai and no waiting. The local village cop owns two and his wife is the village Grand Poobah who the owns the land next to us and is involved in CRU. They worked up until 10 last night. I shall know latter how much more to go.
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Sis in law only paid 550, again no waiting. Seems like the machine owners in our area are desperate for the work, as a lot of the crop is so poor this year.
 
The crops around us have all done well this year, and the lovely wife says the harvest machines are getting 700 Bt per rai. I mentioned that there is supposed to be a cap of 550/rai, and she said.."yes, I know".

Lots and lots of rice on all the roads around here.
 
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