Stranded in Phnom Pehn. Options?
- newkidontheblock
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Second Bubble T'a advice to the OP. Keep your nose the grindstone and there's a chance you may escape.
Would also add an additional suggestion. Don't get involved with the local lasses, especially the taxi girls. If you happen to get one pregnant and are forced to marry, your goose is truly cooked. She'll eat up all your savings and you'll never be able to leave.
Good luck.
Would also add an additional suggestion. Don't get involved with the local lasses, especially the taxi girls. If you happen to get one pregnant and are forced to marry, your goose is truly cooked. She'll eat up all your savings and you'll never be able to leave.
Good luck.
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awesome post from someone who knows.Bubble T wrote:The guy is clearly having a hard time, I don't see why some people here seem intent on making him feel worse about it.
Regardless of whether the situation is entirely his fault or not, what he needs is advice, probably worded in a way that doesn't make him feel like shit.
@OP; I suspect that you were offered teaching gigs, but that they weren't offering enough money for you to be able to survive long term so you just turned them down. I can see why you'd do that, but if it's the case then you need to reconsider. Get the cheapest, shittiest place you can find, learn to survive on cheap, shit food, and get yourself used to the fact that you won't be spending any money at all on anything that isn't necessary to your survival until you get yourself back home. If you do a good job at teaching, they will give you more hours, which will reduce the amount of time you have to spend doing it before you can afford a ticket home.
Whatever you do, don't give up, and try not to lose your sanity. Hopelessness and desperation can really fuck up your mind, but your mind is the only resource you have to get yourself out of this mess, so you need to keep it in tact.
If you're hoping for someone to say 'hey, there's an easy way to earn a ticket back home, all you have to do is xyz" then I'm really sorry to say it's not going to happen. You're going to need to solve this step by step, and the first step is to get some kind of basic income to keep you alive, so just focus on that. When you have that already, the next step is to find a way to increase the income so you can save a bit every month, even if it's only $100 per month, it will still get you home within a year.
Hope it works out for you. If you're sitting there thinking "why is my life so fucked up, everyone else seems to be doing fine", I can assure you that half the posters who were giving you a hard time have also fucked things up in their lives at some point. You'll bounce back, you just need to keep your shit together and try to make this an experience that you can learn and grow from, rather than letting it fuck up your head (easier said than done, but it is possible).
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Taa Moan wrote:PM Pedros, his offer is legit.
TBF after the drama of trying to sort out and getting the last skint expat loser not 1, but 2 jobs, which caused me no end of grief and a spittle flecked in-my-face rage meltdown in front of my staff (because I wasn't 'helping'him enough), I'm more inclined to be wary of others 'unable' to find work in the kingdom.... there's quite possibly a good reason why...
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Sometimes works out - sometimes does not:slavedog wrote:Something to tell his grandchildren, like, when I was younger, I was such a stupid idiot that I went to another country with no money and couldn't even land a bottom-feeder English teaching gig.RBD wrote:Aw give the guy a break. Like Richard Branson, he took a gamble. Unlike Richard Branson, it didn't work out. Most people simply wouldn't have the guts to do what he did (not very well it seems, but anyway....). If nothing else, it will be something to tell his grandchildren.
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- When I was younger I went to Germany with a one-way ticket, no German, little money, no job and a tent (...). Worked in a paints factory and earned a lotta dough;
- when I was younger I went to Boston (on a holiday visa...), no job, no accommodation. little money and worked on a building sire. Earned a lotta dough.
If you don't try, you'll never know - better than sitting home collecting unemployment cheques and watching daytime TV.
- newkidontheblock
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Don't' mean to pry, but what went wrong?pedros wrote:TBF after the drama of trying to sort out and getting the last skint expat loser not 1, but 2 jobs, which caused me no end of grief and a spittle flecked in-my-face rage meltdown in front of my staff (because I wasn't 'helping'him enough), I'm more inclined to be wary of others 'unable' to find work in the kingdom.... there's quite possibly a good reason why...
Maybe a little guide for those down on their luck to NOT do when a lifeline is given to them?
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Anyone down on their luck who needs guidance on how to handle a lifeline generously given to them is a fucking idiot not deserving of said lifeline.newkidontheblock wrote:Don't' mean to pry, but what went wrong?pedros wrote:TBF after the drama of trying to sort out and getting the last skint expat loser not 1, but 2 jobs, which caused me no end of grief and a spittle flecked in-my-face rage meltdown in front of my staff (because I wasn't 'helping'him enough), I'm more inclined to be wary of others 'unable' to find work in the kingdom.... there's quite possibly a good reason why...
Maybe a little guide for those down on their luck to NOT do when a lifeline is given to them?
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You can go to the embassy and relinquish your current passport for a ticket and a temporary passport. Immigration will keep the temp. passport when you arrive. You can't get another passport until you pay them back. Enjoy the free ride home!
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UPDATE: So it turns out the Embassay will fly a destitute Citizen back to his/her home country. The British Embassy has this and the US Embassy. It would seem likely that most Embassies would have this unless they're so broke, that they have no funds that can be allocated to create a fund for this.
This act is called Repatriation. Here is a link to it for those in destitute and need a way back home. The negative is that this is not free. They block or flat out take your current passport. You will be placed on a payment plan with penalty fees. I'm sure you're going to be paying double is not triple what it costs to get here in the first place.
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/123611.pdf
This act is called Repatriation. Here is a link to it for those in destitute and need a way back home. The negative is that this is not free. They block or flat out take your current passport. You will be placed on a payment plan with penalty fees. I'm sure you're going to be paying double is not triple what it costs to get here in the first place.
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/123611.pdf
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It's not a service they just provide. It is an absolute last resort & they can refuse if they feel that you can get funds elsewhere.
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Dear Marukai, I'm sorry to hear about your dire straits... In all honesty, my own "thought experiments" about what I would do in a similar circumstance begins this way: "Go to the religious/missionary folk." If you are in Phnom Penh, there is a huge LDS (Mormon) center and I assume various other evangelical organizations where you can (this is, again, just how it works in my mind), show up, throw yourself at their mercy, and spend some time fixing bicycles or distributing Bibles or whatever it is, and maybe they'll find you a "sponsor" back in the US to help with the $ situation for the plane/deal with the embassy. I have no idea how this would work or the terms they would ask. I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything, but that's my plan (like how everyone has "what if I were thrown in prison" survival plans...).
On another note, in my mind (things may be changing), PP is a place where, Horatio Alger-style, you can literally walk from bar to bar, hotel to hotel, etc. (do you have your passport/enough $ to print a resume?), and ask for any sort of work to get you by. Luckily I have never been in this situation but that's my Plan B.
I don't quite understand what you mean about the embassy emergency repatriation fees- may I ask generally where you are from in the US? You don't write exactly like a "Yankee" but then again I'm from the US and my ideas and writing style are 100% muppet, so... In any case, best of luck and I hope everything works out- RMR
On another note, in my mind (things may be changing), PP is a place where, Horatio Alger-style, you can literally walk from bar to bar, hotel to hotel, etc. (do you have your passport/enough $ to print a resume?), and ask for any sort of work to get you by. Luckily I have never been in this situation but that's my Plan B.
I don't quite understand what you mean about the embassy emergency repatriation fees- may I ask generally where you are from in the US? You don't write exactly like a "Yankee" but then again I'm from the US and my ideas and writing style are 100% muppet, so... In any case, best of luck and I hope everything works out- RMR
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WTF kind of advice is that?chkwoot wrote:Don't be repatriated or get a job, just get a venomous snake.
Sad to see that oppressing the destitute and downtrodden is alive and well on this board.
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