How Do You Earn Money In Thailand?

[Soutpeel]

O&G - Engineering

[el jefe]

On line poker.

Most people I know here that are working at a real job don't have time to spend on Thai Visa.

[forgetit]

the best idea for making money, is not to tell anyone once you have found an opportunity. so i would not expect too many honest answers here. but i like the idea of the metal detector. might quite work here in isaan.

[happynthailand]

yea,but isaan doesn't have any beach's

I like to take my metal detector,and check out the area after a fair,find all kinds of stuff

[Swiss1960]

I capture backpackers, scalp them, and then sell their hair to thai wigmakers.

Really glad I am bald already

[meatballs]

I earn all my money on the internet. Takes only about 4 hours each week doing it so you could say I'm semi-retired. Makes me 60k+ monthly. Easy living.

[Kiggs]

Only 1% of businesses make money, rest loose.

Where did you get your figure - guess work?

Yes agrees with my survey, I asked 100 local business's if they were making money. 100 replied 'yes making lots', reckoned 99 of them were lying and one was.Therefore 99% are losing money, see scientific !!

Come on we all know that 97% of surveys are made up and the other 6% is guess work

Edited September 22, 2012 by Kiggs

[Thai Chi]

I do not work. But my wife who is a wig maker is making a fortune.

She gets real hair from some westerner who assures her that he has a never ending supply.

Not the best quality, long dirty and full of beads and stuff

Not sure where he gets it from, but does the job

[WilliaminBKK]

Airline..........I learnt a new word when dealing with my boss just say "Sure" and so far I'm safe.

[painterscabin]

OR, sometimes one has to return to there home country for a time and return. I think many do this, especailly those like myself who don't draw a retirement yet. And like you, we would like to get a hold of , make that business to stay full time. Like the fellow in a previous post that makes it on e-commerce one needs to be creative these days, thats an avenue I building myself because staying in thailand full time, not just eight months a year with my wife and family is my dream. Good luck.

[PattayaPhom]

If you want to work in Thailand you are pretty limited, Teaching, timeshare, real estate, SEO, IT or bad as they are boiler rooms. If a business, stick to the Thais, cheap restaurant or rooms for locals..many do work offshore so flit between Thailand and their next contract and then you have the retirees....

[Rancid]

You're all gonna love this, especially those with a degree that can't find a job or are earning 25k per month. I have a year 10 education, am not particularly bright and I lied my way into a job 12 years ago. I am now a country manager of a huge international company, and despite being fairly incompetent, still manage to hold onto my job.

This is standard CV for Thai Managers, no need to feel special. There again we have Ben Bernanke in the highest Criminal Bankster position in the US whose solution to excessive debt is to....print money (you couldn't make this stuff up), might I suggest that many in positions of power are in fact imbeciles, albeit convincing imbeciles.

[Huayrat]

I have cannabis farms back home.. generates a nice income

[damo]

Rig pig.

[Kiggs]

I earn all my money on the internet. Takes only about 4 hours each week doing it so you could say I'm semi-retired. Makes me 60k+ monthly. Easy living.

Is it a secret what ya do If not spill the beans we can all have a go.

[skippybangkok]

I'm a maid

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[Payboy]

I get paid for posting crap here.

[BookMan]

I earn all my money on the internet. Takes only about 4 hours each week doing it so you could say I'm semi-retired. Makes me 60k+ monthly. Easy living.

Is it a secret what ya do If not spill the beans we can all have a go.

No one is really sure what meatballs does or even how much he earns...it all seems to change on a weekly basis

[BookMan]

I get paid for posting crap here.

Living in luxury I presume?

[CharlieH]

Seeme to me this is a bit like asking a gold propector where his claim is and how big are the nuggets.................yeah right.

[Payboy]

I get paid for posting crap here.

Living in luxury I presume?

Sure do. People are lapping it up and asking for more.

[BookMan]

Sure do. People are lapping it up and asking for more.

The road to riches is so simple

[yoshiwara]

I'm a maid

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Yes, but you pay to do that.

[impulse]

Good thing is, you don't need real money in Thailand. Everyone here seems to accept this Thai Baht stuff.

I get mine from these green machines that spit it out when I stick my card in them. They seem to be everywhere, and many different colors, so I can't understand why some folks can't find Thai Baht here in Thailand.

Somehow, the supply in the green machine gets topped up every month around the first.

I think there may be some correlation with the oil company where I spend my days and too many of my nights, but I'm not really sure.

Edited September 22, 2012 by impulse

[chainarong]

We dont ,its very hard to earn a living here for a Falang ,most of us have investments and pensions,thats why so many of us are older.

Thailand is a big drain for all our money, you just don't know it till is too late

You are dead right there, I am bankrupt, well nearly.

[asiawatcher]

I think you should look more to creating a better lifestyle than in the west - very difficult to make a 'lot' of money here legally. A word of advice, don't invest anything into Thailand you are not prepared to walk away from.

[Renbe]

1) Buy land

2) Build a few apartment blocks

3) Rent the apartments to Thai workers for 4000 baht/month.

[djayz]

I don't think it's as bleak as some posters here would have you believe. Our job opportunities are very limited, unless of course you have some highly sought-after skill, but there are opportunities. It's just a matter of finding them (and no, nobody in their right mind is going to reveal this info).

You could "earn" money by teaching (Baht 30,000 to 50,000 / month, depending on where you work, government school or private language school, experience, etc.). You could supplement this with teaching private students or find something here that you could sell online back in Farangland.

There's a very slim chance I'll make a lot of money here (which is not on my list of priorities anyway) but I am a million times happier here than I ever was back in Europe.

You need to ask yourself 1) what is more important to you: money or a life in Thailand/SE Asia and 2) what are your plans for the future? How much money do you need to earn to live comfortably and get to your future destination/goal? I find it EASIER here to save a higher percentage of my salary than I could back in Europe.

It's just as difficult here as it is back in Farangland. Either you have something to offer, or you don't. Good luck!

Edited September 23, 2012 by djayz

[davejones]

Seeme to me this is a bit like asking a gold propector where his claim is and how big are the nuggets.................yeah right.

It's not the same at all. If someone tells you they make their money in forex, there next to no chance of being able to copy your success. Same with any other income. We all know how successful people make money, but the problem is that most have no idea how to copy them. To take a simple example, if 100 people have an ecommerce website selling the exact same products, a few will make a fortune, many will get by and some will lose money. That's because they don't know exactly what to do. Telling people how you make money isn't going to have everyone copying it. Do you think if I tell people on here that I make 200,000 baht a month from selling t-shirts online that suddenly everyone on TV will start an online t-shirt store? No they won't, because most don't know how to. They also don't know what type of t-shirts I sell, where I get them made, etc. Even if I gave all this info, few would even try it because they would think it's too much hard work. But that's not what I do - it was just an example.

So, where do I earn my money? I get almost all my income from property - mostly bought in the late 80s and early 90s UK property crash. But still most people won't copy what I do because they are too frightened to buy during a bust. There is plenty of cheap property around at the moment in the UK, US, Europe and rest of the world. Plenty of bargains to be had but people are too frightened to buy.

So there you go, you know exactly what I do, now go copy it. I will even tell you what I did in detail if you want to copy it, but I still doubt anyone will. They will mostly have some excuse how how it worked then but now, blah, blah, blah. But I know it still works because I know people that still do it.

Edited September 23, 2012 by davejones

[davejones]

We dont ,its very hard to earn a living here for a Falang ,most of us have investments and pensions,thats why so many of us are older.

Thailand is a big drain for all our money, you just don't know it till is too late

You are dead right there, I am bankrupt, well nearly.

Not true. I came here 2.5 years ago and have more money now than when I first arrived. My money grows most months. It's difficult to overspend here, as most things are pretty cheap compared to back home.