In a good year, more than four million people of Phuket in Thailand. Many of these visitors love it. Some people like it so much that they want to live here.
Every year, thousands of people come to Phuket for hope, a new life on a tropical island. Many of them are forced to earn a living and find that job opportunities for foreigners are very limited. So, what are their options? Well, one of the more likely it is to invest in your own wayBusiness. And what is the easiest business to get in? Owning a bar.
For most people it sounds like a dream. A life on a tropical island, the days on the beach and in the evening to celebrate the bar. But is the reality of the dream?
It's something that I did when I arrived in Phuket. I checked the options, talking with agents, bar owners, including bar girls. In the end I decided it just was not worth it.
I was new in Phuket and more naivehas many dangers that await the bar owners, but even then, I see there have been many problems with the possession of a bar in Phuket. To begin with, 'bar' is misleading, since it would almost certainly hire and probably under very unfavorable.
It is difficult to make a decent living out of a bar and not, in fact, most of them in the first two years. Although not the cash, the status of your job is probably illegal. The laws are stacked against foreigners in ThailandThe owner of a small business.
You would not like all these things myself, were my biggest concern. The biggest factor in turning away from me the bar was the lifestyle. I got to know a number of bar owners, and when I saw his life, I knew it was not for me. It 'only a life of shit.
Do not get me wrong. I love the night on the beer. Even more nights on the beer. But after each night at the bar itself, a job? Would soon lose its charm for the mentionobvious health problems that go with such a lifestyle.
Since I took this decision the company has to leave his bar alone was not a second when I looked back and regretted it. I know that many bar owners and friends should not be too many, but I do not envy her life. More recently, the untimely death of one of these friends really came home to me.
He was not yet 50 years. Owned a bar in one of the Suns (lane) off Soi Bangla in Patong. It was a good boy,easy going and easy to talk. Although I have not seen more than once a week, we have always enjoyed a good chat and he was one of my favorite bar owner.
Last year, he had some health problems. It 'was hospitalized a couple of times and the opinion of doctors was clear, comprehensible and clear – stop drinking!
The problem is that it is very difficult to stop drinking if you own a bar. The two things that people bring to these small bars are the girls and the owner. Oftenthe girls are not very good if the owner is not there.
Regular customers like to talk with one of the owners. Often, if the owner is not there, which will continue to be at the bar next door. It 'simple to work: for these bars, the owners are most of the time.
So my friend could not have been drinking alcoholic beverages? So I did for a few days, but boredom has for him. They spent the evening you can sit on your bar with loud music that these complexes appear to bar bombedI think it's a good atmosphere for drinking. For a good part of the evening, you can not have any customers, but still you need only in this case. You can watch TV, but you can not hear. His only company is the bar girls who probably annoying for leisure or drinks.
And if customers do not arrive, they want to get drunk and want to get drunk with them. Of course it is for customers in order. If you are on vacation, but only do it for two weeks beforeReturn to their normal lives. The cafe owner is doing night after night, year after year.
They offer to buy drinks and can not accept a bad deal. If you maintain discipline and to stay sober, then at night is unbearable. Drunks are very fun when you're drunk with them. If you are sober, there's nothing worse than trying to laugh at his silly ramblings.
Thus, despite the warnings of the doctor, my friend was soon drinking again. Go only withArea has a bar, you drink a lot.
It all started with my friend. Had a serious motorcycle accident. Drunk driving, motorcycle accidents, but it is never just happen here. He discharged from the hospital too soon to consult a doctor to ignore. He was sitting next to drinking too much for a body that was tired. "He died in his sleep.
This is great, he does not even have a bar, had worked hard in his homeland and was able toretire. I and other friends had tried to persuade him to abandon it. The problem was, was one of the few bar owners who had to make a good profit, and he found it difficult to walk away from a good deal. In the end it was too good, a bar owner for his own good.
The strange thing is that most people are buying into a bar in Phuket for a better lifestyle. Do you want in a tropical paradise island. Phuket is their dream home and features a bar, the way live isare financing their life here. The problem is, the bar closes, enjoy the island.
Most bar owners wake up in the afternoon with a hangover. The lounge for the house shake off the financial hangover, until it's time to enter the bar and then begin again to go to work. Could well everywhere. Phuket's beautiful beaches, islands and other tourist attractions are irrelevant for bar owners because you can hardly see.
I know that some bar owners who have notI know there was a tsunami until the evening when they were on the way to work. I know someone who had not seen for three years in Phuket Phang Nga Bay, Phi Phi Islands, Nai Yang Beach, Nai Harn Beach, where more than a few kilometers from Patong.
I do not completely take bar owners potential. I just wish her eyes, the kind of life is open for purchase. I think for the right kind of character, under the right circumstances, an option is okay.If you are young, you can handle this lifestyle much better. I know that when I was in my twenties, I drank a lot and was always able to shake to get ready for the next session. When you get older, reducing their powers of recovery.
For someone who is celebrated in search of a few years and is ready to entry and exit, owner of a bar in Phuket is a decent choice. If you're the kind of discipline, the bar where you can go to get drunk without moving all customers EntertainNight, then it probably is for you. But when a long-term source of income – for most people is simply not worth the sacrifice.
Another friend, a bar owner decided to sell after a few years in the industry. He was a young man and his bar made him a life. The problem was, was on stage where he hated his foot bar. He hated the very night after night, he was sick and tired of dealing with bargirls and their little squabbles and he felt tired all the bullshitTime.
So he sold and a profit long time '. Only after the bar, he discovered why he shit all the time sold. It was not just the cat, were masking the real problem. She had leukemia.
I'm not saying that the owner of a bar to help the cause of his leukemia, but not to escape his body with her. What has been done to bring in a state of mind where he thought it was normal to feel bad for all the time and took it.Fortunately, it came in time, was diagnosed and had returned home, where he was successfully treated.
Now it is perfectly clear, and hopefully you can move back days in Thailand. At the time, to prohibit its monitoring visits. He says he now looks back on his time in Phuket and he realized that he was in a groove. He had enough money to live, but could not save. His life revolved around his bar continues every night, was not doing things verythat led him to Thailand in the first place. He would never return to the bar business in Patong.
So, as a reminder. If you're thinking of a bar owner in Patong, what can you expect? Now you will spend most nights sitting at the bar waiting for your customers and listen to terrible music at high volume. You will have trouble, you pay to earn about. The user must comply with the antics of your address bar girls with them. You can decide whether your evenings sober and bored or drunk and spendhappy.
Assume (for the option drunk and happy) to do most bar owners, you will end up paying for it. I do not know a single bar owner who looks like a picture of health. It's a busy life, and if it is long term, maybe your life expectancy by a few years.
It could be the attitude that work is always shit. And 'my shit at home, so you could also work shit in Phuket. Now, then fair enough, unless they go to the barCompanies with open eyes and not with some rose-tinted vision of the day at the beach and going out to celebrate.
