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NaMah, on 2012-03-26 12:21:12, said:

Though in principle a good idea - knowing the financial modelling industry reasonably well both from a risk consulting and a hedge fund/ prop trading perspective I'd be very surprised if you had any luck acquiring Matlab based projects as a freelancer. Firstly, knowing your way around  Matlab is no longer a skill really, but assumed for someone with a technical career/ academic degree. It's really become a toy to quickly build/ verify models and then they're put into prod by an experienced dev. I don't know if it's the same in engineering based roles.

Secondly, firms would prefer to build anything slightly related to IP in-house as the chances of you walking away with it is much lower and it's easier to control when done by an in-house permanent employee. That is unless you're good buddies with people (who have a say) in the industry.

The best option IMO (from a finance perspective) would be to build solutions/ Matlab scripts for real world problems in this area and then put them up for sale.

Try NokFX if you are Sydney based:

http://www.nokfx.com/TH/

Transfers are usually done same day, rates better than the banks' (my experience anyway) and low fees. My fiance uses them a lot. They have an office around Haymarket, I believe.

Your best chance is to get into entry level positions in HK or Sing and even that will be very tough. Even though APAC economies are doing better than the West at the moment, no one in finance is really hiring (7+ yrs experienced is an exception). Most APAC countries have very strong local talent to recruit from so there is no point at all to consider your application. I'd say getting into an entry level role in TH was tough before GFC (but could be done) - now close to impossible.

Better option (apart from finding a job in the US) is to enrol in a Master's program (Mahidol U should have international postgrad science programs) and to get to know people and network. That MAY work.

I cant remember - has Abhisit ever overcome that challenge? Money just flows into different pockets from now on. That's all.

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Though I agree that the land dept is overreacting, this is in fact a big problem, IMHO, in a lot of the South Pacific Island nations where a reasonable proportion of prime land was sold/ long-term leased to foreign investors.