We've all done it....been on vacation, got home and wished we had never left, often planning how we can return to the place we had such a great time.... Well it happened to me too, and I did something about it instead of dreaming about it !!.. I fell in love with thailand 7 years ago on a stopover on the way to Australia, from England That first night in Bangkok had me hooked, the noise, the smells, the food, the energy in the air, the amazing people, I loved it! Since then I spent every holiday I had in Thailand, visiting most of the islands, and travelling north to Chaing Mai, and as far as Nong Kai on the border of Laos. During every visit I felt like I was home, it always felt so right to be in this amazing country. Since that first trip I have spent 4/6 months a year in Thailand most of the time on Koh Samet. Koh Samet is only 3 ½ hours from Bangkok and has some of the best beaches, and crystal clear water I've ever seen in the world, which is a pretty big claim, as I have been lucky enough to have visited the Carribean, Bali, Fiji, and the amazing Whitsunday islands in Queensland... oh, and I live 5 minutes from Bondi beach in Sydney !!
After I decided that I wanted to spend most of my time in Thailand I spent a couple of months racking my brains trying to figure out a way to live, or at least spend a lot of time in Thailand. As I wasn't rich enough to do it without working for a living I needed an income, a job. The only sensible and feasable option was to teach english I thought. After a lot of research I ruled it out as I really dont think I could live on a teachers salary of 30,000 baht a month! As cheap as Thailand is, I knew I couldn't do it! - so what should I do? On the internet one day I came across a guy's website claiming he lived on a beach in Thailand, doing online surveys for a living, and doing well by all accounts, he had a great life. Sounded perfect to me so signed up to and gave it a try, this could be the answer to my prayers. Alas it wasn't, a scam basically, as most of these things are, lets face it how many people do you see on the beach with a laptop?- err.. none! but it did give me the idea of making a living online so I wouldn't have to “work” for a living. After a year of research, buying useless schemes, trying different methods-ebay, google adsense, ect, I eventually discovered what I was looking for and its so easy-anyone can do it, even your granny! This method of making a living online, once set up, provided me with the income I needed to say goodbye to the life I hated and say a huge hello to the life I wanted in Thailand. See the basics of how you can do this too in the Funding your Thai vacation Page.
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