My employability in Cambodia?

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:29 am

china is now the main donor in cambodia.
other countries are pulling out rapidly.

there is no such thing as an independent health insurance adjuster, or at least, nothing comparable in numbers or pay range to catastrophe adjusters.

sometimes it is what you think you know that gets you.

carry on.
you seem to have all the answers.

PirateBootyLord · Post by **PirateBootyLord** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:02 am

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:29 am china is now the main donor in cambodia.
other countries are pulling out rapidly.

there is no such thing as an independent health insurance adjuster, or at least, nothing comparable in numbers or pay range to catastrophe adjusters.

sometimes it is what you think you know that gets you.

carry on.
you seem to have all the answers.

There could still be millions of people who worked in the health insurance business including medical claims adjusters, all suddenly without a job and all their experience will be in insurance. So there will be a flood of adjusters and insurance staff if the next president brings government health insurance. And boom the insurance industry can go from a shortage of employment to massive unemployment.

"sometimes it is what you think you know that gets you."

Was I wrong about something and got got by being wrong about it? I never said there were independent health insurance adjusters, just health insurance adjusters.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:26 am

My advice would be to go one of two routes.

1. Invent your job in Cambodia. It is extremely inexpensive and easy to open a business in Cambodia. It is also extremely difficult to succeed and thrive. Highly skilled tradesmen, builders, architects, designers, and the like...seem to do well. Unless you can bring a marketable skill or can bring a unique business idea into play....you stand a good chance to lose your investment.

2. Identify which skills are in demand, and go back to school and/or acquire those skills. If you picked up a law degree, for example...you could probably do well here.

A third option is to come here and accept a very low paying job, and to waste the next few very valuable years that should be spent equipping yourself to do well in the market place. IMO, that is the worst option.

Best of luck.

Bubble T · Post by **Bubble T** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:35 am

Lonestar wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:26 am My advice would be to go one of two routes.

1. Invent your job in Cambodia. It is extremely inexpensive and easy to open a business in Cambodia. It is also extremely difficult to succeed and thrive. Highly skilled tradesmen, builders, architects, designers, and the like...seem to do well. Unless you can bring a marketable skill or can bring a unique business idea into play....you stand a good chance to lose your investment.

2. Identify which skills are in demand, and go back to school and/or acquire those skills. If you picked up a law degree, for example...you could probably do well here.

A third option is to come here and accept a very low paying job, and to waste the next few very valuable years that should be spent equipping yourself to do well in the market place. IMO, that is the worst option.

Best of luck.

4. Get a remote job.

I recently accepted a new full time job from a large American company which is completely remote and just requires me to stay in my current time zone (we're moving to Kep after Bubble Jr is born). It's far more straight forward than any of the managerial work I've been doing for local/regional companies over the past few years. Only downside is that such jobs will usually hire you as an "independent contractor" (so that they don't have to register their business in every country where they have remote staff) which means you're on your own in terms of dealing with work permit and income tax (still looking for a solution to that one myself). Another possible issue for some is that most of these companies do proper full on background checks including criminal history in any country you've lived in, credit history, all that kind of stuff.

I found my new gig through Glassdoor, they have a lot of similar positions listed.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/remote-jo ... S11047.htm

PirateBootyLord · Post by **PirateBootyLord** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:02 pm

Bubble T wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:35 am
Lonestar wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:26 am My advice would be to go one of two routes.

1. Invent your job in Cambodia. It is extremely inexpensive and easy to open a business in Cambodia. It is also extremely difficult to succeed and thrive. Highly skilled tradesmen, builders, architects, designers, and the like...seem to do well. Unless you can bring a marketable skill or can bring a unique business idea into play....you stand a good chance to lose your investment.

2. Identify which skills are in demand, and go back to school and/or acquire those skills. If you picked up a law degree, for example...you could probably do well here.

A third option is to come here and accept a very low paying job, and to waste the next few very valuable years that should be spent equipping yourself to do well in the market place. IMO, that is the worst option.

Best of luck.
4. Get a remote job.

I recently accepted a new full time job from a large American company which is completely remote and just requires me to stay in my current time zone (we're moving to Kep after Bubble Jr is born). It's far more straight forward than any of the managerial work I've been doing for local/regional companies over the past few years. Only downside is that such jobs will usually hire you as an "independent contractor" (so that they don't have to register their business in every country where they have remote staff) which means you're on your own in terms of dealing with work permit and income tax (still looking for a solution to that one myself). Another possible issue for some is that most of these companies do proper full on background checks including criminal history in any country you've lived in, credit history, all that kind of stuff.

I found my new gig through Glassdoor, they have a lot of similar positions listed.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/remote-jo ... S11047.htm

This is a great idea. How big of a pay cut do you think people take in general taking a remote job?

Bubble T · Post by **Bubble T** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:32 pm

PirateBootyLord wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:02 pm This is a great idea. How big of a pay cut do you think people take in general taking a remote job?

I didn't take any cut. Mid management positions for local/regional companies typically pay $2.5k-$4k per month here, which is the same kind of pay scale as remote admin jobs you'll find on glassdoor. The difference is that as a remote admin or virtual assistant or whatever, if you're smart you have a lot of opportunity for growth. I saw remote management positions advertised for $70k+ with the same company I accepted an offer from (I applied for a non-management position as I wanted to make damn sure I got it and I'm confident in my ability to work my way up). If you have the skills, someone will pay you for them regardless of where you are.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:41 pm

Sure, but Bubs is fluent in Khmer and has an extensive employment record.

bangkokhooker · Post by **bangkokhooker** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:46 pm

Lol

ive seen it all now. frank offering career advice and quoting income from a website that sells courses!

loss adjusters earn the average usa wage.yes u can earn money but as a newbie you will trail and experienced adjuster and get a subsistence wage.
my father has been an adjuster for 25 years (sunny now employed) and hes seen it all.

if u rely on that income to let you come and live in cambodia then u r delusional.

Bubble T · Post by **Bubble T** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:50 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:41 pm Sure, but Bubs is fluent in Khmer and has an extensive employment record.

Thank you, and yes, even for remote jobs you will need a specific skill if you expect to get something decent. As mentioned before, they also seem to be far more careful with interviews and background checks than any local company I've worked for. The new job required two rounds of online testing (first one seemed to be checking common sense, the second was more specific to the job), two rounds of interviews (first with an HR person, second was with my new manager), and two rounds of checks (first was a reference check done by their own HR team, second was a full on background check conducted by a company that specializes in it). It wasn't the sort of thing you could blag your way through.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:21 pm

looking thru those listings, don't see any a recent college grad would even come close to getting;

I am so glad i am out of the rat race ...

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