Unexpected Success Stories......,..

[theblether]

I knnw a former BG that got sick of the game early doors, stuck at it long enough to open a 7/11 franchise, and now she has 3.

Amusingly, she's single, as she's fed up with men that only want her for her money.

You weren't expecting that were you?

Do you know of any unexpected success stories in Thailand?

[talk2sam]

One BG asked me to open a 7 11 for her so she could have a baby for me...I told her I will open a big C supercenter for her, so she could give me a dozen babies...so much for ....

[sandgroper2]

Yes, I introduced my wife to a bloke with a lot more money that me. Now shes living in his country in big house with big car and several condos in LOS. Thats a success story.

[DP25]

Amusingly, she's single, as she's fed up with men that only want her for her money.

You weren't expecting that were you?

Hypocrisy from a bargirl doesn't surprise much at all. If she wants a guy who doesn't want her for her money, she could go back to one of the men she conned out of money.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

I have over fifteen ex's that are happily settled in comfortable long-term relationships, and none of them had to sleep with many guys to get there, much less sell their souls bodies. And their mates didn't need to troll the bars getting ripped off /fending off BG scam artists to find their nice tilac.

I consider that a great success all round.

[MidoriApple]

Interesting, Glad with her really.

But I am wondering how she could have good financial enough for settling up 7/11s on her own.

I don't think being a BG, can make good money enough for saving millions of baht.

What if she got a gold treasure, being wife to a foreigner,

then this is no interesting, lots of exBGs turned being good wives, seen in general.

Or she won lotto?

[BigJohnnyBKK]

But I am wondering how she could have good financial enough for settling up 7/11s on her own.

I don't think being a BG, can make good money enough for saving millions of baht.

"Bar girl" is usually a euphemism for any of the dozens of varieties of sex workers here.

I know many many girls that earn well over 100K per month, many from well under ten clients on average, some from just one.

Only a fraction of those are actually clever enough to be able to hang on to much of it, but over a few years it can sometimes add up.

Then you get those that land the big fish jackpot and get millions in one fell swoop, and some go on to repeat the performance again before their clock runs down.

And not all of them are hard-core scammers! But it's true none of the top earners I know are actually what I would call honest either, so many grey areas here. . .

8-)

[theblether]

Interesting, Glad with her really.

But I am wondering how she could have good financial enough for settling up 7/11s on her own.

I don't think being a BG, can make good money enough for saving millions of baht.

What if she got a gold treasure, being wife to a foreigner,

then this is no interesting, lots of exBGs turned being good wives, seen in general.

Or she won lotto?

I heard a figure of 800,000 baht mentioned for the first 7/11, I don't know what you got for that, was that just the franchise fee? I have no idea.......I didn't get too far into the details.

I do know that she spent every penny she had on buying the first one, I didn't think to ask if someone has sponsored her for the rest. Anyway, that's a moot point, the point is, she is no a singleton ex-bar girl that owns three 7/11 franchises.

What other success stories have you came across?

[MidoriApple]

Interesting, Glad with her really.

But I am wondering how she could have good financial enough for settling up 7/11s on her own.

I don't think being a BG, can make good money enough for saving millions of baht.

What if she got a gold treasure, being wife to a foreigner,

then this is no interesting, lots of exBGs turned being good wives, seen in general.

Or she won lotto?

I heard a figure of 800,000 baht mentioned for the first 7/11, I don't know what you got for that, was that just the franchise fee? I have no idea.......I didn't get too far into the details.

I do know that she spent every penny she had on buying the first one, I didn't think to ask if someone has sponsored her for the rest. Anyway, that's a moot point, the point is, she is no a singleton ex-bar girl that owns three 7/11 franchises.

What other success stories have you came across?

Don't think just 800K is already enough for having 7/11. Long time ago, I thought having one.

Then I had not enough saving money, nor good location for CP Co to considered. So I have none.

As remember, it costed over million in total, but this based on BKK area.

The successful story which is similar in condition, I haven't, I don't know any BG, sorry..

But this your exBG mentioned, she made me think of a Thai famous businesswomen, I don't want to (kinda) gossip her here.

Honestly I do admire her ambition which led her successful in these days.

You may google about her if like

http://www.thailandtatler.com/rapeepan-luangaramrut/

[MidoriApple]

To answer for the post above (sorry, unintentionally press Post)

The word "Bargirl" made me imagine only the women who work as prostitute in Thai style of pubs.

For one who can earn more than 100k per months or about, I will think of these women as escort girls,

Or even movie stars, models, miss beauty pageant wannabe but cannot be.. (Kind of)

Never wanted to talked down these women as each own must have reasons for becoming what they like/ have to be.

[metisdead]

A vulgar and derogatory post has been removed, some people need to learn some manners.

[pipo1000]

I have over fifteen ex's that are happily settled in comfortable long-term relationships, and none of them had to sleep with many guys to get there, much less sell their souls bodies. And their mates didn't need to troll the bars getting ripped off /fending off BG scam artists to find their nice tilac.

I consider that a great success all round.

But I am wondering how she could have good financial enough for settling up 7/11s on her own.

I don't think being a BG, can make good money enough for saving millions of baht.

"Bar girl" is usually a euphemism for any of the dozens of varieties of sex workers here.

I know many many girls that earn well over 100K per month, many from well under ten clients on average, some from just one.

Only a fraction of those are actually clever enough to be able to hang on to much of it, but over a few years it can sometimes add up.

Then you get those that land the big fish jackpot and get millions in one fell swoop, and some go on to repeat the performance again before their clock runs down.

And not all of them are hard-core scammers! But it's true none of the top earners I know are actually what I would call honest either, so many grey areas here. . .

8-)

So none of your ex has ever worked in a bar,none of your friends have ever " trolled " a bar and are all happily married with a girl which has never seen the inside of a bar.

Yet you know so many sexworkers so well that you even have knowledge of their exact earnings.

Am I missing something?

[jinjinswing]

Some people are just good with money full stop, whats the big deal? Seen plenty of people who were lousy at school make excellent business men and women.

In the getto of East Preston (Melbourne AU) of the 60s and 70s many success storys

[BigJohnnyBKK]

To answer for the post above (sorry, unintentionally press Post) The word "Bargirl" made me imagine only the women who work as prostitute in Thai style of pubs. For one who can earn more than 100k per months or about, I will think of these women as escort girls, Or even movie stars, models, miss beauty pageant wannabe but cannot be.. (Kind of) Never wanted to talked down these women as each own must have reasons for becoming what they like/ have to be.

Not talking about escorts or anything "high end". During high season pole-dancing go-go dancers at the farang centers regularly make 60K+ if they're good looking, don't even have to go with multiple guys per day to do that, many tourists are happy to spend thousands per day on one girls. And of course many of them will go with 4+ guys in one day if they can swing it.

But that is the high end, the dumpy normal looking ones are happy to clear an average over say 20K a month, always with an eye out for the silly-fool-in-love jackpot, of course which there are many.

So none of your ex has ever worked in a bar,none of your friends have ever " trolled " a bar and are all happily married with a girl which has never seen the inside of a bar.

Yet you know so many sexworkers so well that you even have knowledge of their exact earnings.

Am I missing something?

Yes, perhaps you didn't read carefully or made assumptions.

Of course depends how you define "ex". Out of the many thousands of girls I've had sex with over my many decades on this earth sure the vast majority of them are/were Thai sex workers, and I've also lived with dozens, some of which were working at the time, and I've also gotten to know quite a few that I haven't even had sex with.

In the past five years or so only a very small fraction of my partners have been sex workers. However I do still keep in touch with some, and many of my friends (still) like that scene and I do go out and about with them for fun, help translate for non-Thai speaking friends that prefer the relative newcomers to the scene etc, just don't partake myself - can't afford it anyway.

But these fifteen I'm talking about are of course only the most successful of my more recent "graduates"; some of them either "fell by the wayside" one way or another - some becoming explicit sex workers against my advice, others just haven't reached the point where they're ready to get out there hunting just yet, e.g. English not good enough yet, and some are working in straight jobs and just haven't met the right guy yet.

Does that help clear up your confusion?

[soi41]

To answer for the post above (sorry, unintentionally press Post) The word "Bargirl" made me imagine only the women who work as prostitute in Thai style of pubs. For one who can earn more than 100k per months or about, I will think of these women as escort girls, Or even movie stars, models, miss beauty pageant wannabe but cannot be.. (Kind of) Never wanted to talked down these women as each own must have reasons for becoming what they like/ have to be.

Not talking about escorts or anything "high end". During high season pole-dancing go-go dancers at the farang centers regularly make 60K+ if they're good looking, don't even have to go with multiple guys per day to do that, many tourists are happy to spend thousands per day on one girls. And of course many of them will go with 4+ guys in one day if they can swing it.

But that is the high end, the dumpy normal looking ones are happy to clear an average over say 20K a month, always with an eye out for the silly-fool-in-love jackpot, of course which there are many.

So none of your ex has ever worked in a bar,none of your friends have ever " trolled " a bar and are all happily married with a girl which has never seen the inside of a bar.

Yet you know so many sexworkers so well that you even have knowledge of their exact earnings.

Am I missing something?

Yes, perhaps you didn't read carefully or made assumptions.

Of course depends how you define "ex". Out of the many thousands of girls I've had sex with over my many decades on this earth sure the vast majority of them are/were Thai sex workers, and I've also lived with dozens, some of which were working at the time, and I've also gotten to know quite a few that I haven't even had sex with.

In the past five years or so only a very small fraction of my partners have been sex workers. However I do still keep in touch with some, and many of my friends (still) like that scene and I do go out and about with them for fun, help translate for non-Thai speaking friends that prefer the relative newcomers to the scene etc, just don't partake myself - can't afford it anyway.

But these fifteen I'm talking about are of course only the most successful of my more recent "graduates"; some of them either "fell by the wayside" one way or another - some becoming explicit sex workers against my advice, others just haven't reached the point where they're ready to get out there hunting just yet, e.g. English not good enough yet, and some are working in straight jobs and just haven't met the right guy yet.

Does that help clear up your confusion?

"help translate for non Thaispeaking friends"

[pipo1000]

To answer for the post above (sorry, unintentionally press Post) The word "Bargirl" made me imagine only the women who work as prostitute in Thai style of pubs. For one who can earn more than 100k per months or about, I will think of these women as escort girls, Or even movie stars, models, miss beauty pageant wannabe but cannot be.. (Kind of) Never wanted to talked down these women as each own must have reasons for becoming what they like/ have to be.

Not talking about escorts or anything "high end". During high season pole-dancing go-go dancers at the farang centers regularly make 60K+ if they're good looking, don't even have to go with multiple guys per day to do that, many tourists are happy to spend thousands per day on one girls. And of course many of them will go with 4+ guys in one day if they can swing it.

But that is the high end, the dumpy normal looking ones are happy to clear an average over say 20K a month, always with an eye out for the silly-fool-in-love jackpot, of course which there are many.

So none of your ex has ever worked in a bar,none of your friends have ever " trolled " a bar and are all happily married with a girl which has never seen the inside of a bar.

Yet you know so many sexworkers so well that you even have knowledge of their exact earnings.

Am I missing something?

Yes, perhaps you didn't read carefully or made assumptions.

Of course depends how you define "ex". Out of the many thousands of girls I've had sex with over my many decades on this earth sure the vast majority of them are/were Thai sex workers, and I've also lived with dozens, some of which were working at the time, and I've also gotten to know quite a few that I haven't even had sex with.

In the past five years or so only a very small fraction of my partners have been sex workers. However I do still keep in touch with some, and many of my friends (still) like that scene and I do go out and about with them for fun, help translate for non-Thai speaking friends that prefer the relative newcomers to the scene etc, just don't partake myself - can't afford it anyway.

But these fifteen I'm talking about are of course only the most successful of my more recent "graduates"; some of them either "fell by the wayside" one way or another - some becoming explicit sex workers against my advice, others just haven't reached the point where they're ready to get out there hunting just yet, e.g. English not good enough yet, and some are working in straight jobs and just haven't met the right guy yet.

Does that help clear up your confusion?

So in the past 5 years you had 15 Partners which were non-sex workers and have since settled in a successful relationship.That is of course separate from the partners that have not settled yet and the partners that were indeed sexworkers.

As I understand that a partner is something completely different from a one night stand,and you seem to have had alltogether more than 15 relationships over the past 5 year only,it seems that you must be a popular guy............or is it just the opposite?

[BigJohnnyBKK]

So in the past 5 years you had 15 Partners which were non-sex workers and have since settled in a successful relationship.That is of course separate from the partners that have not settled yet and the partners that were indeed sexworkers.

As I understand that a partner is something completely different from a one night stand,and you seem to have had alltogether more than 15 relationships over the past 5 year only,it seems that you must be a popular guy............or is it just the opposite?

I'm sure the regulars here don't want me to go through all the details again so just a bare outline.

As a punter I used to average at least fifty different girls per month over the years, but don't enjoy that anymore.

Nowadays I have at any given time between five and and a dozen women living in my house for the purpose of learning what they need to know and how to act, as well as English language skills, in order to marry a decent western guy without having to working the sex industry or via the nightlife scenes. I only take ones that haven't had any direct exposure to farang before, usually straight off the farm in outback nakon nowhere. I don't make any money off these activities, and in fact at the moment I'm not even giving them the usual spending money for snacks etc, and some of them have had their families send us up some bags of rice from home to help with the household budget.

Is that enough for you? PM me if you want more, or even better google for recent threads where we've debated the morality of my approach.

Even in your short time here on TV, you've probably noticed that I don't concern myself too much with whether I'm popular or not. However in general the girls are quite happy to keep in touch, and some have expressed their appreciation to me over the years, often returning for a while if things don't work out with their new partner.

Their sponsors/husbands have actually been much more vocally appreciative, especially those that have been burned by the usual scams that we all regularly witness here.

[theblether]

Some people are just good with money full stop, whats the big deal? Seen plenty of people who were lousy at school make excellent business men and women.

In the getto of East Preston (Melbourne AU) of the 60s and 70s many success storys

It was an attempt to get some positive stories about how people have made a success for themselves in Thailand. However, if the thread doesn't involve some type of a-typical bad news it's doomed to failure. I shall keep trying though, just like those folk back in Melbourne

[NewlyMintedThai]

How much profit does the average 7-11 shop produce on a monthly basis, I wonder?

[wana]

How much profit does the average 7-11 shop produce on a monthly basis, I wonder?

How long is a piece of string ? Some of them in the best locations are always crammed with people

others you can nearly always walk straight to the till and pay .........

depending on location and qulity managment /tight inventory control and bookkeeing of course

[pipo1000]

How much profit does the average 7-11 shop produce on a monthly basis, I wonder?

How long is a piece of string ? Some of them in the best locations are always crammed with people

others you can nearly always walk straight to the till and pay .........

depending on location and qulity managment /tight inventory control and bookkeeing of course

I think that the policy from CP is that if a certain shop makes a profit of about 40.000 Baht a month that they will build a new 7/11 next door, which ofcourse halfs you clientele overnight.

I'm sure there is a moderator on this forum who knows the exact figure.

So in fact CP-Group tells you how long a piece of string will be.

[HardenedSoul]

I have over fifteen ex's that are happily settled in comfortable long-term relationships, and none of them had to sleep with many guys to get there, much less sell their souls bodies. And their mates didn't need to troll the bars getting ripped off /fending off BG scam artists to find their nice tilac.

I consider that a great success all round.

Graduates from your finish-me-off finishing school program, right?

[NewlyMintedThai]

How much profit does the average 7-11 shop produce on a monthly basis, I wonder?

How long is a piece of string ? Some of them in the best locations are always crammed with people

others you can nearly always walk straight to the till and pay .........

depending on location and qulity managment /tight inventory control and bookkeeing of course

So, how about an average? Or a range?

We're supposed to be impressed that the former BG owns three shops, but what is that really likely to mean on terms of income?

[wana]

How much profit does the average 7-11 shop produce on a monthly basis, I wonder?

How long is a piece of string ? Some of them in the best locations are always crammed with people

others you can nearly always walk straight to the till and pay .........

depending on location and qulity managment /tight inventory control and bookkeeing of course

I think that the policy from CP is that if a certain shop makes a profit of about 40.000 Baht a month that they will build a new 7/11 next door, which ofcourse halfs you clientele overnight.

I'm sure there is a moderator on this forum who knows the exact figure.

So in fact CP-Group tells you how long a piece of string will be.

they do the exact same procedure in west europe ........its dispicable if you have morals ,but sucessful business people

think in numbers ,not in whats morally correct ........

if you open a subway and youre selling 600 sandwiches per hour ,they will open one a few metres away and take half your revenue

if half is not enough ,you go under and they stay afloat ,selling 600 sandwiches per hour .......

[Rsquared]

Some people are just good with money full stop, whats the big deal? Seen plenty of people who were lousy at school make excellent business men and women.

In the getto of East Preston (Melbourne AU) of the 60s and 70s many success storys

It was an attempt to get some positive stories about how people have made a success for themselves in Thailand. However, if the thread doesn't involve some type of a-typical bad news it's doomed to failure. I shall keep trying though, just like those folk back in Melbourne

Well the only unexpected success story in Thailand that I know of is yours truly........but how can you perceive success when you are still on the journey and have not yet arrived at your destination?

I also feel that my wife is a candidate for the thread, as she was forced to leave school at the age of 12 because her father couldn't afford her education (but could afford her brother's fee).

After many years working in the fields, then hanging around restaurants, as a teenager she started making money by singing and helping out in the kitchen.

To cut a long story short, she ended up owning and running her own restaurant in Phuket (until her Thai boyfriend gambled all her profits away....hence she lost the restaurant).

Then she bounced back by doing a beautician's course and working part time in a beauty salon, and part time in a restaurant........that is when I first met her.

Now we have been married for 8 years and going strong..............10 years ago I did not expect that I would be here now.

That is my (condensed) version of "an unexpected success" to theblether.

Cheers.

[ExpatOilWorker]

Yes, I introduced my wife to a bloke with a lot more money that me. Now shes living in his country in big house with big car and several condos in LOS. Thats a success story.

I totally agree. You are the success story, you got rid of the old bag......(sorry)

[DrTuner]

I used to know about a dozen of BG's from my earlier exploits, one by one each married and went abroad. I guess that's a success story, but it seriously degrades my plausibility in BG-issues as I don't have access to latest data anymore.

[theblether]

Some people are just good with money full stop, whats the big deal? Seen plenty of people who were lousy at school make excellent business men and women.

In the getto of East Preston (Melbourne AU) of the 60s and 70s many success storys

It was an attempt to get some positive stories about how people have made a success for themselves in Thailand. However, if the thread doesn't involve some type of a-typical bad news it's doomed to failure. I shall keep trying though, just like those folk back in Melbourne

Well the only unexpected success story in Thailand that I know of is yours truly........but how can you perceive success when you are still on the journey and have not yet arrived at your destination?

I also feel that my wife is a candidate for the thread, as she was forced to leave school at the age of 12 because her father couldn't afford her education (but could afford her brother's fee).

After many years working in the fields, then hanging around restaurants, as a teenager she started making money by singing and helping out in the kitchen.

To cut a long story short, she ended up owning and running her own restaurant in Phuket (until her Thai boyfriend gambled all her profits away....hence she lost the restaurant).

Then she bounced back by doing a beautician's course and working part time in a beauty salon, and part time in a restaurant........that is when I first met her.

Now we have been married for 8 years and going strong..............10 years ago I did not expect that I would be here now.

That is my (condensed) version of "an unexpected success" to theblether.

Cheers.

Thanks very much Rsquared, this was the kind of story that I was hoping to hear. My respect to your lady for getting back on her feet and starting again

" If at first you don't succeed, try try again ".

[MrRealDeal]

My story would be, my wife is the daughter of poor uneducated parents who worked for min wage in factorys all their lives , saved enough to send her to school where she got a Masters degree and because a sucsess herself and runs an international company and married a fablous Farang ...... somehow without Big Johnney's help !

[smokie36]

My story would be, my wife is the daughter of poor uneducated parents who worked for min wage in factorys all their lives , saved enough to send her to school where she got a Masters degree and because a sucsess herself and runs an international company and married a fablous Farang ...... somehow without Big Johnney's help !

That's a great story mate.