Good News From Thailand

    As previously reported on this site, the family with whom I reside in Thailand have been in a financial pinch.  Met, mother/grandmother has had two sources of income.  She is a masseuse on call from various clinics.  Met also has an in home sewing business doing garment production.  Both of these jobs are under threat.
    Severe tendinitis in her left thumb coupled with an over supply of massage clinics has curtailed that source of income.  Consequently, sewing became her best resource.  Living in the house with Met and her husband are their daughter Poo, pronounced Poe, and her 20 month old son, Nice.  The sewing dust was causing Nice, severe respitory problems so Met had to quit sewing.
    Poo is a single mother whose husband left her while she was pregnant.  He provides no child support and their are no laws in Thailand mandating such support.  Therefore, Poo, who is a university graduate, has been staying home to care for Nice.
     While I was there the family decided, that, given Met's loss of income, Poo would return to work and Met would take care of Nice.  Poo has been out of the work force for about three years so I wondered if she might have trouble finding a job.  Never worry!  Today I received an email from Poo reporting that she'd been interviewed, offered a job and will begin work on Monday.
    The job, she said, is in administration which makes me curious.  Her background is in I.T., so I wonder if this is a change.  She's excited and I hope it works out to her satisfaction.
    In the past her salary has been about $300.00 a month working six days a week.  That is a typical salary in Thailand.  Here's hoping she might make a bit more.

Poo and Nice.

She nicknamed him "Nice" hoping it would be self fulfilling prophecy.

Nice and Met.