Advice please

Get a a one month ordinary visa and you can renew it for 6 months or one year  inside the country with out exiting  before it will expire. Once you get a work here, it's really up to you to negotiate with your employer to provide you a working visa. Visa is quite easy to obtain here.

Phnom Penh now is not good also for the rate of salary they can give is $10 per hour but the problem they cant give many hours. I would say not to come, many are hard up try country like Japan, or arab countries

Phnom Penh now is not good also for the rate of salary they can give is $10 per hour but the problem they cant give many hours. I would say not to come, many are hard up try country like Japan, or arab countries


I doubt that the countries you suggest would be as convenient as Cambodia.

OP, it's a competitive job market.  I would suggest you come alone on a one month tourist visa, which can be extended for another month and see how you like it and try to gauge how your other half would like it.  You've given no indication of experience and qualifications so it is impossible to guestimate your  success.
According to Cambodian law the employer is responsible for your work visa, but don't count on it.  Like most laws in The Kingdom of Wonder they rarely make the transition from paper to practice.  Whatever you do, don't work without one.

Many thanks for your advice, my experience is that of operating my own company for 30 years employing at its peek 450 people, I also have experience in the entertainment sector, bars, clubs etc.
I am 53 and as said have a retirement visa but having worked all my life and despite the beauty of Thailand cannot sit about doing nothing. Again thank you.

Hi again Jeff,

Quite a varied experience.  I too am retired but did not have your job skills but still enough to support a family of four on my Social Security pittance here in rural Cambodia.  I would be glad to help in any way I can.  One caveat however is that I have not taught in many years so my information is fayed and my connections nonexistent.  Feel free to pm me here if you've any follow up questions.

Erratum",,my information is dated.

can I ask your name lol. I am originally from London but been living in Belfast for 12 years. Same old story Im sure went to Thailand met a girl, went back fell in love got a place together and so on. We are both in the UK at present returning 19th April, the restrictions on work permits are murder here and the fact is I need to top up my savings as I do not qualify for any benefits. Dont need loads thats why a lower wage would be fine, more importantly it gets the brain working. There does appear to be plenty of work up there as per the job sites and for a wee home it seems on par with what i have now. So what do you do so not to go mad all day lol ?

I need to rethink my advice.  I thought you were still in Thailand.  Traveling alone may no longer be an option.

Actually there are many things that drive me mad including 2 teenage incorrigible children and a peasant culture that hasn't heard of globalization.  But it's a package deal. I'm married to the finest woman I ever met, one who backs me up in public but has the fortitude to tell me when and how I fucked up at home.

I sent you a request to add to my contacts then I can PM you, in what respect do you need to rethink your advice? As your missus mine will follow me to the moon and back, she is very understandable that I cant just sit on a beach after working 30 years lol I would go "Ding Dong" as they say lol

You're on my list.  Only  one in fact.

Hi Jeff,

Since I found nothing I'm your PM of a personal nature I will  reply here.  If you read my entry on this thread or will in part answer your question"Why Cambodia?". https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=578238

In general after having taught HS in northern Maine I felt the need to travel.  I was stationed in Berlin for almost 6 years and had traveled throughout the continent, so when I quit teaching high school in Maine I wanted to see Asia. O first taught in S. Korea, then Cambodia.  I left during the coup d'état and taught in Vietnam primarily and 6 months in Pitsanolok in Thailan.  I always missed Cambodia and landed a good job at ACE in Phnom Penh where I met my future wife.  The link I gave you takes over from there. 

I really am in no position to give you advice.  I have always been an educator since I left the military.  I had enough common sense to avoid being a businessman since I have a shortcoming of necessary personal skills. 

In any case if any questions pop up send them my way and I'll do my best to be of service.  It sounds like you've got one good iron in a fire already.  I wish you much success.