When old enough Jaidee began her career in logging – both legal and illegal – working in the far south of Thailand. When logging was banned in 1989, she became a trekking elephant. She worked all over Thailand, from the beaches in the south to the jungles of the north and in between. As she got older, she became weaker and had no strength to carry tourists up hills. She then spent most of her time trekking where the terrain was flat, which meant beaches or open plains with little or no shade. Sometimes she was rented out for weddings expected to stand in one place, quite often in the hot sun for hours on end. Her last job was giving rides at a resort in the south which had an elephant camp.