They are the passive-aggressively snide, and they get off on the reactions they get from others. It's an impotent form of manipulation, and it only succeeds when we feed it with our irritation. Save your hate for someone who is worthy.

You've gotten many answers, so I can tell you what NOT to do. Don't get on a motorcycle taxi. They get off on scaring tourists.

Have necessary documentation, patience, more money than clothes. If you have a newer notebook computer, don't bring the box it came in, you would probably be charged import tax on it. Real Thailand is to be found in smaller, less touristy cities and villages, but that is only my personal preference. Metered taxi out of the airport is safest for not getting ripped like a rookie. Night train north is lovely. BYO.

@Sammy ******

nah, I'm not thrown, just thinking that every country has its own version of complex and often strange procedures.

@Lisa *******************

Yes it is and I love teaching the kids. Bureaucracy is global.

@Lisa *******************

Thank you Lisa. I'm having trouble with the notion that one arm of the government wants to hire me, and another wants me to go.

@Tod ********

I understand and will get with HR at the new school before I do anything else. thanks a lot!

@Tod ********

It is the same office. I have two months left on the medical extension, so I can lose that and convert to a covid-19 extension. I have a job offer and need to get into non-B status.

@Tod ********

great question! No I didn't. Nakhon sawan hospital, doctor, note, immigration. Local, by the book, no shifty agents.

@Darren ******

No I have had several teaching jobs and a couple of work visas. I had to quit the last job for med reasons, and was then trying to convert to non-B.