Thread: Would you/Could you...

I would imagine, he may be worse off if he was to fly home to make some $$ there. That's why he have decided to make this choice.

I wonder...How many farangs in thailand who are in the same predicament.

Originally Posted by mooncake

I wonder...How many farangs in thailand who are in the same predicament.

I wonder how many Thai people are in Western countries claiming public funds from the government, even though they get given equal opportunities to the natives, unlike Westerners in Thailand.

He most definitely has a right to work or he wouldn't see the first day out.

Bloody good luck to him is what I say, he's got the balls to do what it takes to survive here where many others would pack up and head home.
Respect man

^^ I'm sure there are much less than hispanics or mexicans, percentage wise

Or as is the case for a few I've met, sink into alcoholism and scrounge off of the charity of freelancers along Sukhumvit. More than a few like that...!

They are just degenerates, usually easily spotted, I don't give em the time of day

Yeah, but they don't leave me alone when I'm sat minding my own business late at night. They always come and bloody talk to me. Lots of other farangs to choose from, but I always get them! Then out comes the sob story....looking for a free drink...

Not easy if you attract more than your fair share of them, you must have a kind face.
I usually get up and go to another chair or another bar, you just cant let yourself be engaged in conversation with them coz once they see an opening they latch like a hungry baby.

Originally Posted by kmart

That's how Bill Heineke started out. Selling burgers from a motocy.

not really.

Bill did have all the things most teenage boys desire-a go-cart, a motorbike, his own car. And he felt proud that he had earned the money to buy these things himself. As I mentioned, he got his start selling newspaper ads, and he started his own advertising agency working out of the living room of his parents' house. Later, when go-cart racing became popular in Thailand, he convinced the editor of the Bangkok World to let him write a weekly go-cart column. His payment was half of the ads he could sell. After a couple months, he was making more most reporters.
To further add to his income, he began cleaning offices at night. He noted that businessmen around town complained about erratic office cleaning crews. So he started a professional janitorial service. He hired a couple workers, printed a few dozen cards and set up a company."I used to sell ads, work at my advertising company after I got home, and in the evening I would go around and help my workers clean offices," he recalls.
"Friends would often see me washing cleaning a window or something. I was a regular laugh-in." Bill knew he was on the right track, and success was within easy reach, but he needed to raise more money to invest, He couldn't go to his father. But he could race. If he could win a couple of races he could pump his winning into his business ventures.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Not easy if you attract more than your fair share of them, you must have a kind face.
I usually get up and go to another chair or another bar, you just cant let yourself be engaged in conversation with them coz once they see an opening they latch like a hungry baby.

Yeah, it's the kind face

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

I would imagine the penalties when caught would far outweigh any little money he will make from this venture

He sells very near the police station in the mornings, they even buy off him, small town mentality, nobody really gives a toss..

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Not easy if you attract more than your fair share of them, you must have a kind face.
I usually get up and go to another chair or another bar, you just cant let yourself be engaged in conversation with them coz once they see an opening they latch like a hungry baby.

Yeah, it's the kind face

Ok so you've been working on your bar frown, me too

He may not be making a fortune, but the simplicity of runing his own little food stall in a part of the world he obviously wants to be in probably makes him happier than most.

I envy him, in a way.

I would still prefer to go home and work in woolworths packing shelves at night for the ridiculous wage they get these days.....i could work my way up to supervisor packer....

Each to their own Nawty

Originally Posted by Nawty

i could work my way up to supervisor packer....

Might be fun Nawty but for me, and knowing my luck I probably would be packing my buckets.

Originally Posted by Nawty

I would still prefer to go home and work in woolworths packing shelves at night for the ridiculous wage

reading from your resume?

No....but paperboy was on it.....as was dag remover

Originally Posted by mooncake

^^ I'm sure there are much less than hispanics or mexicans, percentage wise

In the UK?

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by mooncake

I wonder...How many farangs in thailand who are in the same predicament.

I wonder how many Thai people are in Western countries claiming public funds from the government, even though they get given equal opportunities to the natives, unlike Westerners in Thailand.

Or sponging off their farang husband or selling their tail on the Craigslist exotic section.

Originally Posted by chitown

Originally Posted by mooncake

^^ I'm sure there are much less than hispanics or mexicans, percentage wise

In the UK?

No....I thought he was talking about the US w/ the word "natives"

Originally Posted by mooncake

Originally Posted by chitown

Originally Posted by mooncake

^^ I'm sure there are much less than hispanics or mexicans, percentage wise

In the UK?

No....I thought he was talking about the US w/ the word "natives"

"Westerners" normally include a lot more than the US.

I am very sure there are a lot more thais living off welfare in germany than Mexicans.