by peragrate » Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:05 pm
Thanks everyone. I've noticed that the "good ole days" are rapidly disappearing. This is the situation. I'm broke (like many others).
I can't afford a deposit, because my "career" as a teacher is pretty well much finished. (It's just that things move in cycles, and that cycle is coming to an end or it has come to an end. Maybe I'm just tired of being paid just enough to get by. Perhaps there's one more part-time job somewhere, but after six years of teaching, you'd think I wouldn't be broke.)
I'm not a party animal either. I used to drink, but not anymore. (Even so, I did the math two years ago, and basically I could drink at least a six-pack every night and still come out on top? So where did it go? Flying here, flying there, deposits, to be eventually donated whether I like it or not furniture, visa after visa after Goddamned visa, shit schools with their heads up their ass. My attitude wasn't always like this.)
Nope. I'm stuck in Cambodia with 600 bucks to my name, a guesthouse that cost one third of that, and a bike I need. (Same old shit - Sure am glad all those ESL owners are driving around in Mercedes thanks to me and other disposables.) I enjoy teaching, at least I did for the first four or five years, until I realized what a tool I've been.
So. There it is in a nut shell.
I'm looking for somewhere that doesn't give me the hebbie-jebbies, where neighbors don't look at me like I'm there to buy a kid, and the last remaining vestiges of my life won't get stolen. I'm very private: I just like to be left alone.
(If I had an army tent, I'd pitch by a river in the middle of nowhere and call it a day.) If it isn't quiet, I'll buy ear plugs, but since I've given up on teaching, the father away from the city the better. (I use a cellular dongle for Internet which is supposed to be good "all over Cambodia.")
P.S: For those of you out there that are broke too, I think there's a good service by a guy named Tin-tin on this board. He did me pretty good. Something about a special discounted Metfone Internet account...
Thanks all,
Peragrate.
Sorry for ranting a bit... but got home after driving all day... I'm trying to get work on line since teaching has finally fizzled out, but that's also a joke. (Excuse me, but I'm not feeling very P.C. today - Competing with a billion "will do anything for a dollar", "Make .0002 cent per click", or how about: "I made $197,284 in 7 days flat, and you can too! Just pay me $69 for my super-duper auto-money system.")
I drove south down Monivong, over the bridge, up and down side-streets (and I'm pretty sure some of them have never seen a foreigner except on TV). I got fed up of looking, and stopped to play volley ball for half-an-hour. Then I drove north of Japanese friendship bridge and found nothing. So I started driving west... nothing. Last week I cruised Diamond Island...nothing.
Good news though: at least I can tell the difference between a For Sale and For Rent sign.
Up and down so many side roads I can't even remember them all. There are some cheap places in Siem Reap, but I'm tired of the man telling me to move on.
Thanks everyone. I've noticed that the "good ole days" are rapidly disappearing. This is the situation. I'm broke (like many others).
I can't afford a deposit, because my "career" as a teacher is pretty well much finished. (It's just that things move in cycles, and that cycle is coming to an end or it has come to an end. Maybe I'm just tired of being paid just enough to get by. Perhaps there's one more part-time job somewhere, but after six years of teaching, you'd think I wouldn't be broke.)
I'm not a party animal either. I used to drink, but not anymore. (Even so, I did the math two years ago, and basically I could drink at least a six-pack every night and still come out on top? So where did it go? Flying here, flying there, deposits, to be eventually donated whether I like it or not furniture, visa after visa after Goddamned visa, shit schools with their heads up their ass. My attitude wasn't always like this.)
Nope. I'm stuck in Cambodia with 600 bucks to my name, a guesthouse that cost one third of that, and a bike I need. (Same old shit - Sure am glad all those ESL owners are driving around in Mercedes thanks to me and other disposables.) I enjoy teaching, at least I did for the first four or five years, until I realized what a tool I've been.
So. There it is in a nut shell.[b] I'm looking for somewhere that doesn't give me the hebbie-jebbies, where neighbors don't look at me like I'm there to buy a kid, and the last remaining vestiges of my life won't get stolen.[/b] [i]I'm very private: I just like to be left alone.[/i]
(If I had an army tent, I'd pitch by a river in the middle of nowhere and call it a day.) If it isn't quiet, I'll buy ear plugs, but since I've given up on teaching, the father away from the city the better. (I use a cellular dongle for Internet which is supposed to be good "all over Cambodia.")
P.S: For those of you out there that are broke too, I think there's a good service by a guy named Tin-tin on this board. He did me pretty good. Something about a special discounted Metfone Internet account...
Thanks all,
Peragrate.
Sorry for ranting a bit... but got home after driving all day... I'm trying to get work on line since teaching has finally fizzled out, but that's also a joke. (Excuse me, but I'm not feeling very P.C. today - Competing with a billion "will do anything for a dollar", "Make .0002 cent per click", or how about: "I made $197,284 in 7 days flat, and you can too! Just pay me $69 for my super-duper auto-money system.")
I drove south down Monivong, over the bridge, up and down side-streets (and I'm pretty sure some of them have never seen a foreigner except on TV). I got fed up of looking, and stopped to play volley ball for half-an-hour. Then I drove north of Japanese friendship bridge and found nothing. So I started driving west... nothing. Last week I cruised Diamond Island...nothing.
Good news though: at least I can tell the difference between a For Sale and For Rent sign. :P
Up and down so many side roads I can't even remember them all. There are some cheap places in Siem Reap, but I'm tired of the man telling me to move on.