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I May Be Going Back Home Soon - Am I Getting the Job Offer? - Future of the Channel

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The creator is preparing to return to the United States temporarily to accept a new career opportunity in the financial sector. He plans to use his time in California to stabilize his finances, downsize his belongings, and prepare for a more sustainable, long-term move back to the Philippines, which he views as his ideal future home base.

Key Takeaways AI-Generated

Prioritize financial stability and career growth over the rush to move abroad permanently to avoid future hardship.
Discovery trips are essential; never commit to a long-term move to a new country without spending time on the ground first.
Building a community and networking with like-minded people—whether online or in person—is vital for sustained success.
Content creation is best treated as a supplementary career, not a primary income source, during the early stages of building a business.

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This candid live stream captures an authentic moment of transition for a digital nomad, as the creator opens up about the bittersweet necessity of returning to the United States to advance his career.

With the same adventurous spirit that defines his travels, he pulls back the curtain on the harsh realities of balancing a long-term expat dream with the practical, financial requirements of building a professional life.

The stream transforms into a communal hub, where seasoned travelers and aspiring expats trade insights on the realities of living abroad, the importance of discovery trips, and the vital role of building a supportive network.

Throughout the broadcast, the sense of live exploration is palpable as the host engages directly with his community, discussing the nuances of city-hopping through Southeast Asia and the cultural adjustments required for long-term relocation.

The conversation moves beyond typical travel vlogging, focusing instead on the strategic planning required to make a future move to the Philippines sustainable and permanent.

It is a raw, encouraging dialogue that highlights how shared experiences and transparent planning are the real cornerstones of turning a travel dream into a long-term reality.

YouTube Video Questions Derived by AI AI-Generated

How do I plan for a long-term move to the Philippines while maintaining my career?

What are the benefits of taking a discovery trip before moving to Southeast Asia?

How do I balance being a digital nomad with professional financial goals?

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Dumaguete Captain Trucker San Francisco Bangkok Chad Foster

Frequently Asked Questions

AI-Generated Is it better to move abroad permanently or start with a discovery trip?

AI-Generated The host strongly recommends taking a discovery trip to spend time on the ground, explore different cities, and verify if the local lifestyle meets your specific needs before making a permanent commitment.

AI-Generated Why would someone move back to the US after living in the Philippines?

AI-Generated Returning to the US can be a strategic move to build up financial reserves, secure career advancement, and downsize life back home, ensuring that a future permanent move to Asia is sustainable and stress-free.

AI-Generated How do you manage the social aspect of being an expat?

AI-Generated The host emphasizes that the Philippines offers an incredible community. Building social circles involves being open, meeting fellow travelers and locals, and using platforms like YouTube to connect with like-minded individuals.

[Music] [Music] yeah that's that's better hey what's up yeah that color looks a lot better wow how's everybody doing tonight we'll uh get a second for the first person to chime in and uh yeah as you can tell I'm had my fifth round interview and yeah it's a tough one Tony um it's with a heavy heart that I may be going I may be booking my flight home soon uh home to California so not my hometown but um yeah so I wanted to do this stream I'm one of those people that I want to just confront things head on I'm not here to to uh lie or to finesse people you're not going to see me go back and then pretend oh I'm not really back in the United States um I look at it like I so I turned 32 in two weeks two weeks from tonight actually and uh I'm early you know most of the guys that I meet over here they're in their for they're in their 50s they're in their 60s they put in a lot of time they had lengthy careers um they were business people they were in the medical field they uh maybe they had a trade maybe they had a small business and I I admire that and I respect that sacrifice and I realize it makes more sense generally speaking for me to uh hey what's up trucker I'm excited to see trucker uh trucker is an awesome YouTuber guys if you haven't already whether you're watching this on play you're watching this live check out Captain trucker he's uh I just like his attitude you know he's got this he's a really level-headed guy he's a self-aware guy uh I think that he's a really a long-term thinker as far as just like the way he talks about the Philippines he seems to have a lot of respect uh and kindness and of course he's got a Filipino son so he's got this really I would say big stake you know here and uh anyway I love his channel his content's great he talks about a lot of different things it's uh it's not just about Trucking it's not just about the Philippines but shout out to Captain trucker hope we can cross paths one day actually get to meet up and chat um but yeah so just wanted to give everybody an update so I actually had my fifth round interview last night at about 2 amm here in the Philippines and uh it went very well this was with a leader in the financial company that I've been interviewing with and it went really well I mean he seemed to be very pleased with the conversation that we had uh I have looked at his resume his resume is incredible I mean he's got a lot of experience just a really sharp Guy Somebody I think that is yeah somebody that's that's got a lot of strong leadership skills somebody I'd be happy to work for based on my preliminary uh observations and so actually I got a follow-up email uh and so they're going to set up a call with me tomorrow night well tomorrow night at 1:00 am.

so technically Saturday morning at 1: am I believe that I'll be getting the job offer at that point um I I've found that if I get rejected in an interview process I tend to just get an email saying hey you weren't selected uh sorry you know sorry but this time the fact that they're setting up a call they're going to be calling me on my personal uh soft phone so I have a soft phone through Google I expect to be getting it uh and some people might be wondering why put all this work into YouTube just to go back and work well just like Captain trucker said in the description you can grow the Channel Wherever You Are don't worry about that compare and contrast cultures when you're back in the US I have so much to talk about I have enough ideas and things to cover I could talk for probably a year minimum putting out a video every week without running out of ideas there's so many things that I want to cover there's so many different directions I could go in uh I have so much to share with the audience and I plan to come back this isn't a situation where I'm getting booted out this isn't a situation where I run into some kind of issue I'm not even broke so technically financially speaking if I wanted to roll the dice on YouTube and Just grind it out for multiple years I certainly could uh but YouTube is not a guarantee uh unlike a career where if you know something happens in my job I can just go get another job uh YouTube to me is more supplementary you could call it a side hustle it's not guaranteed there's a YouTuber I watch a lot Andrew Taylor uh he's based in koal lur and he says you know he's around the 20K submark he says it works out for him at about $5 an hour um so if I compare five bucks an hour to my uh income potential in the us it's a fraction of what I could make in the US in one year I could save enough money to live here for several years so it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to say okay I'm just gonna go fully in on YouTube uh and basically ignore this potential uh you know back in the US and I look at it too like back in the US I can do planning I can get rid of stuff I've got a storage unit in the US that I'm paying for every month I'd like to get rid of that um I'd also like to downsize I'd eventually like to sell my car in the US these are all things that if you're thinking about moving to Southeast Asia you really got to consider um do you have a place to park a car and do you want to uh maintain the car you know there's a lot that goes into this that um I'm this is why I plug Discovery trips you're never going to tell me just drop everything and move I think you could plan for several years and can make decisions every step of the way to line things up to be able to do it um because you're moving halfway around the world I mean you got to think about what a person goes through and say the immigration process to go to the US or to go to Canada [Music] uh to uh you know to go to these Western countries yeah exactly um so yeah I just wanted to be transparent if I get this offer I'm going to try to set it up to get like a month Runway I'd like at least three more weeks here in the Philippines uh and then to go back and have a week to get over the jet lag um to go ahead and get into my apartment I've already talked to the manager of the building I lived in in the San Francisco area I've lived there multiple times uh as I've needed for jobs for business and that and so forth and they're welcome to have me back I always pay my rent on time have a fantastic credit score uh so that's that's kind of what I'm looking at if I get this offered of course I don't have it in hand certainly could fall through that phone call could basically be a thanks for trying maybe next time uh but I just have confidence that that's that's what the result is going to be and um you know I'm a I'm a financial kind of nerd in some ways I'm a payments nerd um and it's you know I know a lot of people you know California doesn't necessarily always elicit a positive response but I like it to me it's the closest thing to living out of the country that there is in the United States you've got uh different architecture you've got an international kind of scene you've got a lot of interesting and eclectic characters I've met some of the best friends in my life in California even though I'm not from there I've been very accepted when feeling very accepted when I am in California uh and you know just I like the weather in California I like the food there there's some interesting Filipino communities there that uh I'd um I'd love to connect with there's what there's a community in San Francisco there's a community in Hayward um I also have now a Filipino friend in Chicago that's invited me to come out there there's a lot of different directions I could go with my content uh and yeah so I'm going to get caught up on comments and then I'm going to continue to talk about this because it's not you know uh by the way everybody if you're watching this if you're enjoying it please give us a thumbs up it helps with the algorithm uh but yeah I just you know I want to share this because you know I think some people will bounce back and forth some people will find hey you know what this city uh wasn't for me or maybe I want to discover this city or I love daget uh this city is treated me very well I've had tons of positive experiences here I feel like I have more friends here than ever had in my life it's a place that I will be coming back to if I move to the Philippines long term I could see myself being based here it is one of my favorite cities in the world alongside Cusco Peru and changai Thailand it's among those three I don't say which one is my favorite I think they're all interesting and unique ways but uh dumag Getti is fantastic I the hype to me is well deserved the it's just got the small town feeling you run into people all the time I ran into a really big YouTuber today somebody I'm a fan of I'm not going to name drop them but uh somebody that I should be working on a cloud with them this weekend we'll see it's not once again it hasn't happened yet so I'm not going to name drop uh but it's just been a really interesting place and an interesting time and it's just yeah it's a wonderful City so let me get caught up uh trucker says thanks yeah everybody check out trucker Gerard says best wishes in any event um um thank you so much Gerard I really appreciate the kind words great to see you in here Tony says yes the name is Eastern dreamer so talking about the dream your future is in line with the Channel's philosophy getting there is half the dream yeah I mean it is not an overnight process to move halfway around the world I do not want to crash and burn I want to be set up such that when I make my permanent move the only reason I'm coming back to the US is to see people I care about to see friends that I care about not because uh oh I've run down to zero not to say there's anything wrong with that but just kind of the way I am uh I I want to make it um long term you know uh Channel Tony says I see the channel about being the journey not the destination yeah I mean I think the destination is super important I wish I could make it permanent but uh today but um you know a lot of people are in various stages of their Journey some guys are finding out today hey the Philippines looks cool they're watching today their first video on the Philippines they might have seen trucker pop up in their feed they may have seen becoming Filipino pop up in their feed and uh they're thinking man what is this this place looks beautiful what is it about they don't know anything about the culture maybe they've never met a person from the Philippines or a Filipino descent um so this channel that's definitely part of it Tony is that it's about showcasing the journey because I am way premature to be making a permanent move there I have not met a single person that is under the age of I maybe met one person and he was close to 40 under the age of 40 that's made it their permanent home uh so most guys are just not there financially and also just planning and wrapping up things back home uh but yeah Captain trucker says with depending on monetization you need about a 100,000 long form views per day to make a decent income yeah that's great to know Captain trucker that you know for me I'm getting I'm getting around 25,000 views per month so I would have to do so Forex and then 30 120 times the views I'm getting right now long form per month to uh to do that now I do believe that there's rapid growth in my channel I've added almost a th000 subscribers but there's a difference between even getting a 100,000 views in a month and getting 100,000 views a day I believe it's attainable I think I'll hit I'll get there in the long term uh but it's not something I'm going to roll the dice and count on I certainly I certainly don't want to be uh going back in a couple years without any immediately relevant work experience I'm not in a field like uh trucker that's much more conducive to to stop and go right hey I want to work this contract or hey I'm gonna go travel for a while and come back for what I'm doing because uh I don't know it's just the tech industry there's some agism in it let's be honest here in Tech they want uh you know that that's just their expectation and sales too because sales is a grind I mean is very demanding physically and mentally and not to I'm not here to to to be critical of this or that it's just like I mean in my in my last role let's put it this way my last role I started my last role uh in a recent role let me rephrase that in a recent role I started in my late 20s and I was told hey you're you're uh you're old and and so that was just in my 20s so that's just kind of the dynamic there um but uh yeah you know it was there's a great opportunity in a lot of other ways not here to to complain or to be uh too negative but yeah there's just some some solid opportunities so Captain trucker says I used to live in Berkeley very cool trucker I'm I've been in your old stomping grounds very cool yeah I I like Berkeley a lot it's just uh it's just such an Eclectic place it's a historical place you got a lot of interesting people coming through there you got the beautiful Hills you got um you got down by the water you got a lot of interesting people I I like Berkeley a lot it's a city that's treated me very well overall Chris says hey Alex uh yeah great to see you Chris uh Daily City okay yeah I'm familiar with Daily City never lived out there but I did go to a a robot hamburger uh place out there um and you know like if I ever decided to get out of tech I would look at getting into driving I I like some of the aspects of driving uh I've talked to a few drivers and I you know I'm more of an introvert I know that may sound strange for me being on YouTube uh but yeah I mean you got the open roads you got these beautiful landscapes you have time to think uh certainly it's friendly to content creation as you can tell with trucker uh bets friends just jumped in listening in won't contribute much as trading us markets from Australia you're a great guy hopefully meet up when I'm back in the Philippines already subscribed yeah Duma is Good Wonderful yeah I know you must be busy especially with the interest rate drop uh that that half a percent drop in interest rates is really uh definitely definitely going to cause the market to hopefully warm up a bit of course it's also a sign of some damage but um yeah Richard says Duma is a good base camp in Asia it's let's see Duma is a good base camp in Asia yeah I absolutely agree Richard by the way guys I want to mention I only slept about five hours last night so if I'm I'm a bit all over the place I you know that's why I got to sleep close to 4:00 a.m.

and then woke up around 9:00 a.m.

and and just went out into town to edit I I'm working on a video should be coming out tomorrow I'm about halfway through editing it um but yeah it's a little bit different one this one is with a local fisherman that I I met down on the boulevard um yeah Richard I think duma is an awesome base camp in Asia you can fly to well you can you can get up to Sabu or to Manila and then you got access to all over Asia uh you got you know from Manila you can fly to Bangkok you can fly to hoian City Hanoi dang you can fly to Australia I know Australia is not technically part of Asia but you've got a lot of variety out of the Philippines you can also go back to the West Coast the US I mean you you know I think duma is fantastic because you're what like an hour and a half from Manila and then Manila all over Asia you can get to Japan last time I I left the Philippines I flew up to Japan and that was about four hours from I think it was from Sabu I think I flew out of Sabu and it was about a four hour flight really not that bad um Tony says no need to apologize or explain building your career and finances are your number one priority at the stage while planning the dream yeah I absolutely uh agree Tony I I'm overly apologetic I think maybe it's just you know I grew up kind of a people pleaser right I mean if I'm going to be fully transparent uh that's just kind of the way I was raised I think just coming from a a troubled background you want people to like you you're worried about rejection it's uh as much as I try to work through it you know working in sales uh that you know that's that's something I got to work through and and some of my good friends here have dealt with some of the same struggles um so yeah sometimes I can be too apologetic I think that's a a great Point Tony I appreciate your support Tony for those who don't know I just want to give a shout out to Tony back when I first started doing these streams Tony was the one and only viewer and so it is me having a conversation oneon-one with Tony and uh yeah we've come a long way um yeah I really I really appreciate Tony's belief in me before I really had that social proof right of of having the Channel Growing um Tony said Richard says having been to Asia over 60 times since 1999 I endorse your rational and realistic approach to life and balance thank you so much Richard you know something that I respect is that you've had over five dozen trips here you've probably seen many different parts of Asia you've probably seen many different Asian countries and I know that you've talked a bit about your love for the Philippines and so a guy like you you could really pick anywhere over here uh and yet you choose the Philippines I think that's just a really strong boat of confidence and I can relate to that um I knew I would like the Philippines I've been here five years ago but I wanted to try everything I wanted to get like almost like a buffet or a sampler of all of what's out there and make a determination for me and then be able to explain that well I really like Thailand but I struggle with the language barrier um I really uh have enjoyed some other places but the language barrier is really something to think about right because if you're not uh you know really solid at learning languages then it's uh it's going to be a hoop to jump through and some of these languages they're only viable to use in one country so are you really going to learn a language that you can only use in one country I don't you know I I'm happy to learn the basics but to actually invest the time to get a fluent understanding that's a pretty big ask so um thank you so much Tony for your generosity I really appreciate the support uh it really just helps me to you know yeah just keep moving forward I'll definitely be buying a coffee uh maybe even two coffees with that tomorrow Tony I'll need some coffee tomorrow I'm actually meeting up with a subscriber and a friend of mine who watched my interview with Paul and he and I are going to sit down and he's got a lot of material uh together one sec guys I got a plug in my charger uh it's should be good tonight let's there we go okay good so the charger is working tonight uh but so tomorrow I'll give you a bit of a a sneak preview of the content I'll be making tomorrow but we're going to talk about xats with different kinds of disabilities so this is something I just don't see get covered a whole lot and it's something I do want to cover I think it's valuable uh it may be relevant to some audience members that they're struggling uh with a physical uh disability or visual impairment and I myself you can see I I don't I've always had issues with my eyes um so it's something that I think is valuable I don't know how quickly it's going to get it's I'm gonna be able to turn it around because I've got five or six in the tank that need editing but uh yeah I'm looking forward to it and I you know it's something that's that's an interesting perspective I think this individual uh really wants to be helpful to his community um let me get caught up here but yeah thank you so much Tony I really appreciate that it was very generous of you yeah and just to kind of to to tie in Richard I look at it like being a realist you know some people they only want to sell the positive some people they only want to sell the negative I look at it like when you're living over here there's just simply not as many ups and downs in my personal opinion are there normal ups and downs of life sure but it's not the this wild vacation and it's not this uh catastrophe every day I know some people for vlogging they want to capture attention and I'm of course that's you know I'd be lying if I didn't say attention was somewhat important in this space but uh trying to just normalize it I mean that's one of my goals with this channel is just normalizing living abroad destigmatizing it um talking about how it's like yeah today rode to town went to the shopping mall had some coffee met up with some friends uh got some dinner ran into some other friends and then came home it wasn't this wild adventure it's to me it's similar to my life in the states there's some similarities there but with more socializing that's really one of the things that if I were to try to normalize it I'd get a lot more socializing here uh now in my sales sales roles back in the US there is a lot of socializing but it's business you know it's not I'm sitting down for coffee we're just going to chat I met one of my subscribers the other day and we hung out for 4 hours he didn't want to be on camera I respected that I didn't even bring it up to him he he let me know and uh we didn't record anything we just hung out and had fun so that's one of the things that I think a lot of people don't talk enough about is the social life uh the possibility to connect with likeminded people here and YouTube is a vehicle for that right I figure if somebody watches my videos and then they approach me in public they have a strong sense of who I am nobody's at least up to this point you know knock on medal nobody's you know been rude but bets friend I'm 44 hoping to move there next year yeah check it out bet friend I mean I'm not sure how much time that you've spent here or if you've maybe U I think you mentioned you've uh you've been to Duma um so yeah you probably are experienced here if you're talking about moving here then um yeah it's uh it's a it's a nice place you know it's just um Duma is a nice place in a nice country the people are super nice here I think you're you probably have a strong idea of the right place for you best friend I've been to four Islands so far so I'm just barely scratched the surface of the Philippines some of the the um the places that are high on my list Elo Elo I want to see Elo Elo APO Island near here in dumag is another high on my priority list I do wanted to check out more of lzone bagio in particular it's a big island so it's I think it's insufficient to just say I've been to lzone well lon's huge I have been to minda now but I've only been to a small piece of minda now so uh there's so much to see here it's like it's really spread out too uh but yeah I think that's I I definitely would love to uh to catch up BET's friend when you make the move and hear more about how it's treating you how it's been different for you I don't know how much time you spent here but how is it different for you to visit here versus to live here because this is the most time I've spent in the Philippines last time I came for a month spent it between three different locations here I've been here for five weeks and all in the same city so I'm getting more of a sense of what it would be like to live here as opposed to Vacation mode uh Daily city is the best place in the area to find Korean produce and markets I'll keep that in mind it makes sense because I that yeah that definitely makes sense that Daily city has a Korean Community John says I think you can grow your channel great person friendly you remind me of Chad Foster Chad's awesome uh shout out to Chad Foster that guy he is so gener he has been so generous to me with his time uh with his Insight with his yeah shout out to Chad I mean Chad's been good to me I I appreciate Chad's input um he's taught me a lot in a very short time he's just got this friendly demeanor he's a guy that like you can just tell he's happy at least from my perspective maybe I'm off base here but uh I I want want to work with people that are more successful than me and I want to be friends with people who are happier than me uh I'm not going to speak to to Chad success it's obvious he's got a large Channel but as far as just his attitude and his Vibe like I could just tell he's living his best life and I admire the heck out of that and I respect that a lot uh because I think happiness is a skill I think it's something that people consciously work on I think it's something that people try to develop and some people ignore it um uh and some people like Chad they consciously have honed that um yeah so shout out to Chad Gerard says when was the last time you've been back in San Francisco so it's been about a year and a half Gerard last time I was in San Francisco [Music] was April 2023 so a April 2023 something like that so it's been about a year and a half uh Nicholas let's see here oh Tony uh we'll we'll catch you next time thanks so much for for chiming in [Music] um Nicholas says direct flights from Sabu to Bangkok daily yeah you can hop out you can hop out for a week or weekend very very easy to get over to Bangkok uh mix it up and you know have something a little bit different of course you want to have the delicious Thai food you want to have some of those uh you know interesting experiences it's of course I haven't spent time in Manila so I can't really speak to Manila but as far as Bangkok goes it's just such an energetic Electric City you've got the neon lights you've got the neighborhoods you've got the sukumvit line where you know you just have so much in Bangkok like I spent I've lived in Bangkok for a total of four or five months and I still feel like I really scratched the surface I mean uh I feel like I would need another probably six to seven months in Bangkok to to fully feel like okay yeah i' I've got a sense of it and this time I will admit the last stint in Bangkok for me was about three months and I got out to the western suburbs which I hadn't seen before I got to see a lot of the northern part of the city some of the southern part of the city but it's a little tougher to navigate because of the river uh the southern part of the city and uh because up until that most of my experience had been just on the sukumvit line and in the Eastern suburbs near savan pum airport so being able to see all these different corners of the City walk like IID walk five 10 miles uh each day in Bangkok or many days in Bangkok just trying to see let me look in every corner and crevice of the city let me see what this street looks like let me see what that soy looks like and it's one of those cities too that's very safe I've walked around Bangkok at 3 4 in the morning with no issues so uh yeah huge fan of Bangkok you know would be thrilled to go back again in the future Richard says I'm all in with Tony yeah thank you so much Richard andh Richard says your future in security is all on you I absolutely agree Richard we have to take accountability if we want success we have to own the result and it would be terrible for me and terrible for my audience if in two years I said oh man guys my you know Channel isn't where I needs to be or it's not producing the income I need to live okay I'm going to have to go back for an indefinite amount of time uh you know hang in there with me I I like to control what I can control that's something I learned in sales is control what you can control uh I'd rather control things in the sense of like okay I go back I work say a year um maybe if I get promoted to work a few years but I expect to take a vacation at the six month mark maybe the E mark who knows Tech can be volatile uh and you know just just move things in the right direction live below my means uh the apartment I'm going to be renting in Berkeley I've already looked it up it's going to run about $1,000 a month so it's it's setting me up that includes also electric so I'm not going to have an electric bill that includes water I'm not going to have a water bill um and it's right above a train line so actually I won't even have to worry about a car this time this in San Francisco area I don't think I'll be bringing my car so I have my car it's actually back in the midwest or in the Southeast where I'm from uh but I was paying $120 a month in parking fees I had my window smashed 180 bucks to repair it those expenses aren't going to be an issue this time uh in each way you know I'll SP I'll have to commute a couple days a week 10 bucks each day so 20 bucks a week on my commute versus probably several hundred a month just in parking fees uh I didn't even drive that much I didn't have time to drive during the week I only drove on the weekends is it worth it to own a car to drive it two or three times a month to pay all that H I don't know I saw some cool stuff but there's a lot that you can see in San Francisco without having a car right you've got mun you've got Bart you've got the buses uh you can rent a bike and yeah I I have a few friends in San Francisco that tell me the car is like an albatross it's this thing that you're going to struggle to Park you're even if you want to take it out okay so you have parking where are you going to park it when you go to the other side of the city right uh it just becomes this thing that you you can't store easily you can't move it easily you're running into parking tickets you may get a boot you may get broken into it's yeah it's just uh it can be a major hassle to have a car in San Francisco not too different from Manhattan I will say there's a lot of nature I'd be missing out on um but I've got my spots I've got my spots around San Francisco that I enjoy spending time in I can just kind of move things around I've also got friends that do have cars and so if they want to go out I could just you know take an Uber over to their house and we go out and have fun um heck at at the amount of money I was spending I could just take Ubers you know a couple few times a month to uh to Nature to go and enjoy that uh BET's friends if you ever choose to come to Australia for a visit let me know happy for you to stay at my place place that's so generous I've always wanted to go to Australia best friend so I've never actually been to Australia but it's been high on my list um I've had great experiences with the Australians that I've met in Southeast Asia actually one of my new friends Tony I did an interview with him you can check it out Antonio's uh Philippine experience super nice guy one of the first people I met in changai that wasn't in my immediate friends group was from Australia really nice guy met outside of an Afterparty club and he just was really eclectic guy and then one of the my favorite people I've ever worked with was from Australia I don't want to name him but really great guy knew that I was totally clueless didn't hold it against me took me under his wing just uh yeah just a really really thoughtful guy um a brilliant very successful guy super humble did not brag at all I mean this guy's resumee impeccable I mean like he's got people shoving each other out of the way to offer him a job I'll just put it that way and and yet very approachable uh you know very approachable just uh he was somebody that taught me that you can be successful and you don't have to like you don't have to brag about it um let me get caught up here though I know you guys are um have provided me with a lot of wonderful comments here Bangkok can you can get by with English easily my girlfriend speaks good English she was learning since junior high school yeah my friends in Bangkok all speak great English uh they work corporate jobs they I would say they live a lifestyle somewhat similar to a western lifestyle in some ways they do work a lot of hours they do commute a lot but it would be not that different than working in like a Los Angeles or a London it's just a global City it's got all kinds of Mega businesses um so I would agree with you Nicholas that the English in Bangkok is underrated uh have you met a special cars says have you met a special girl yet I'm wondering if you're considering bringing a Phil Filipina to the US and starting a family so no uh I don't see that that being within the cards I don't have any family support in the US so uh if you haven't already cards I recommend checking out my videos on a Strang and also my interview with Paul one of the central problems with having a family in the US not for everybody but for a lot of people is that you have no extended family support uh so for most people their extended family works all the time maybe they're dysfunctional as is the case in my family um you cannot lean on other people and so it's very hard on relationships and it's very hard on the nuclear family because the society doesn't care there the society is not geared toward helping people to start families you're seeing this with the declining birth rates in the uh United States and uh you're just not going to get that support most people I know some people they're in this special circumstance they've got wonderful extended family they've got people they could lean on uh they've got the community support they live in a special High trust Community none of those apply to me uh so I don't think I would ever consider bringing a Filipina to the us to start a family I would rather make my money in the US get to a financially solid point and then start a family over here where we have the support of extended family where the cost of living isn't uh crazy where their work life balance for me personally Mo shifting from an employee to an investor and a YouTuber would be more manageable my person personal opinion the Philippines is much more conducive to having a family and I have several friends who have moved here from the US and started families in their 40s right they uh they're typically married to a woman who's younger than themselves maybe she's in the range of say 20 to 30 and she's perfectly happy uh to be married to a gentleman that's say 40 45 uh who's already made the money I I believe this is just my opinion it could you could say it's a controversial but I just don't see the us as being conducive for a lot of PE for many people uh to be able to do that once again not criticizing people who have done that not saying that they're not legitimate or there's something wrong with the way that they've been able to pull things off if you could do that I commend you I commend anybody who has successfully started a family in the US but I look at my generation very few of my peers and classmates are married with Children very few and some people will say oh what about this person what about that person okay that's fantastic they're certainly not the majority uh so yeah I would I would never do that I just don't think it's um I just don't think it's a good plan and I've seen a number of people within my own family think oh well that's not going to apply to me and now they're going through serious financial hardship they're talking about splitting up uh because the money is just simply not there but not only is the money not there but the time and attention is also not there and the community doesn't care there's nobody that's going to step in and try to help you out they're just going to say you should have known better that's often the response if you see a struggling family in the US particularly among working people of workingclass backgrounds is should have planned better shouldn't have done that uh and I don't want to be one of those people that's struggling to take care of my family and then getting this kind of condescension or this negative attitude uh from the general population um Richard says I was very close to selecting Thailand but not only the language barrier but the sea even though I love the landscape I felt a bit isolated as a Catholic I at a tribe that fits yeah Richard if you're a Catholic gentleman I think that the Philippines is a great opportunity for you you've got Mass services all over the country I know you've talked about do magetti you've got Valencia you've got one in the city I'm sure there's uh a i I know I passed several at least one Catholic Church in here in beong so uh you've got that support from the community you've got that presence and I think it's I think it's a fair point right in Thailand there's simply not the same presence there there's some but it's just not going to be to the same extent that you'll have here in the Philippines Thailand is much more of course you're you know Buddhist uh and so bit different as far as uh cultural presentation um [Music] let's see here Jose Rodriguez I'm actually going to Roa City to go to the Canadian beaver in two weeks I'm from New York and we'll be landing in Manila next Saturday morning very cool Jose I need to make it up there at some point uh that's uh yeah I'm familiar with um I can't think of his name that Philippines life my like I said my brain's kind of foggy right now but yeah let us let me know how that goes when you get up there I was hoping to squeeze a trip into roas on this visit I don't know if it'll happen now that I'm getting this this um this offer I want to spend the next couple weeks in do meetti because there's certain that every time I'm like okay now it's time to leave do meetti something else comes up that's like no dude stay in do meetti so that's kind of what I've run into now is yet another thing that has popped up and is telling me okay you need to stay another couple weeks here so I may just run out of time and fly out of do meetti to Manila but please let me know how that goes Jose because I think what that guy's doing is really an interesting kind of vibe I want to see him succeed I think it's also you know there's a lot of um there's a lot of accountability there right he's being very public about it I think it's also brilliant to promote it on the channel because some people are saying oh you know don't start a a bar which I get it right I mean it's a risky uh it's a risky bet but um you know he's got this massive channel to drive traffic there he's got a interesting theme there's a lot of back and forth between the Philippines and Canada a lot of Filipinos living in Canada a lot of Canadians living in the Philippines so yeah more power to the gentleman in Roos chattam mantium hello Eastern dreamer hey chattam mantium welcome I think this may be the first time I'm seeing your screen name pop up in here [Music] welcome welcome bets friends I spent 10 days about seven in Sabu three in Duma just wanted to get a sense of boots on the ground experience before moving over yeah I think that's a great idea best friends I'm always telling people do a discovery trip right some people they move here side on scene I'm like it may not be for you you may pick a certain city and that City may be perfectly fine for a guy like me but maybe for you you want something different I'm all about the discovery trip I think guys should invest the time and money if you're going to commit to moving here right invest the time and money to do a discovery trip explore get a little taste try some restaurants go to the grocery store see like do they have the things that you want to meet your dietary requirements right some people they don't have pork uh so they want to know they can get chicken or they can get beef easily that's up to their expectations um other people maybe they're vegan they want they're curious I'm hearing a lot that the Philippines they're eating a lot of meat and rice can I have a vegetable heavy diet here so these are you know Small Things there's a lot that goes into it and you never know what's right for you until you get boots on the ground and you figure out is this uh you know is this meeting my expectations um Tony I was about to leave and Alex drops a great thought I want to work with people more successful than me and be friends with people happier than me happiness is a skill yeah I absolutely agree with that Tony it's uh you know I I look at it like there's there's something that there's a lot for me to learn as a guy in his early 30s there's a whole lot for me to learn and I can learn that by being around people that are smarter than myself I'm not too good to to there's no job I'm too good to do there's no work I'm too good to do uh there's nothing I haven't figured out happiness perfectly there's always going to be something else for me to learn about happiness and pursuing my own happiness so yeah great Point Tony um and yeah some of these things that I get that seem I want to be transparent with Tony but also the audience I've I've heard from other thinkers I borrowed it from them I'm like wow that's really insightful that makes total sense to me I need to share with my audience and you'll hear me name drop so somebody I'm a fan of is nval rant and I'm gonna just I'm going to drop his uh his name in the chat he he's he's a founder of Angel list he's really big in the tech space I've learned a lot from nval uh I actually have emailed him and he got back to me he's somebody that I really admire his work uh he really focuses on uh the three pillars that he talks about are health wealth and happiness his book is free he doesn't need to make the money from selling a book you can get his his ebook for free and uh just really a lot of it you know it's I think there's something in his content for everyone uh let's see Orion have you looked for any US tech jobs it require some rep representation in Southeast Asia so a previous employer of mine actually has a sizable presence in Manila and I left them uh for uh different opportunities I it's interesting to me it's intriguing to me you know it's something I should Explore More Orion to be honest with you it's something I should Explore More it's something that I should put more time into I appreciate you calling that out uh if you have any connections you know just kind of throwing it out there in the water please email me at Eastern dreamer pH atgmailcom because I love to chat with a recruiter maybe there's a recruiter that based on my experiences and cred experienceing credentials they'd be willing to send something my way I wouldn't expect to make a US income but if it's a situation where I could stay here in Southeast Asia work on my channel after work and on the weekends then that would be a really nice solution um but yeah I do know somebody a friend like an acquaintance like a friend of a friend who's been doing that for a while now I don't know if that individual is still doing that job I don't know if maybe they came back to the States uh I don't know if maybe they promoted up and needed to move to say Europe or somewhere else but there are people working for US tech companies here in Asia not just through a contractor capacity but these tech companies do want to provide services to uh rapidly growing economies like the Philippines like Thailand and um yeah certainly a great Point that's friends you're so right about Bangkok you feel like you know it and then you realize you don't know it at all yeah it's just and it's such an Ever evolving City and it's like every time I go back I just turn over a new Leaf there and I see something new and I visit a new shopping mall mctier is gorgeous one of the nicest shopping malls I've ever seen in the world every time you think Bangkok has outdone itself it outd does itself again it's just an incredible City I love it can't get enough of it it's um it definitely caught my heart chatam mantium Berkeley for 1K I've never heard than that being possible yeah you know it's uh it's an old building I'll be honest with you Chad it's an old building it's a single room occupancy style which they do have a negative reputation in San Francisco um but yeah I mean if you want to email me I'm not opposed to sharing a link with you they have I think probably half dozen units open right now and that rent has price has actually come down I was paying 1,200 six years ago for that same building uh but now just because a lot of people have left San Francisco area have left the Bay Area the rental prices have come down a bit uh is it Fancy no not at all it's the opposite of fancy but it's a community um I know some people that have lived in that building for 30 40 years it helps me to keep my costs low it's uh you know for a bachelor it's a great option it's uh you know it's not something a lot of people will be comfortable with but for me as a single guy looking to maximize my savings and Investments uh it just makes a lot more sense than than you know renting some fancy place and having a much lower savings rate when I'm paying a th per month than in the San Francisco area I'm able to save something like two-thirds of my income which is just incredible I mean I took it for granted when I was doing that last year uh but when I tell people that they're really Blown Away something that might be helpful is for me to do a vlog where I actually and this could be an ongoing vlog this could be more of a uh like an Excel sheet literally tracking and showing this is what I brought in and this is what I spent dollar for dollar this is exactly what I spent to live here and this is exactly uh what I brought in from my tech sales job and this is these are the equities I'm buying or this these are the Investments that I'm making and that provides an extra layer of accountability if I make a bad decision it's right there um for everybody for every to see but that could be kind of a way to show some younger guys who they're far from Social Security but maybe they're getting some promotion at work maybe they're a skilled trades person maybe their business is taking off they're getting some extra Capital uh and if they were like me when I was younger they they might be tempted to blow it all that's how I was when I was younger is I'd make a lot of money and then I'd spend it all I don't want to do that anymore I see where I want to live I see the way that I want to live that requires a lot of discipline careful decision making over an extended period of time uh so yeah it's uh oh Lenny great to see what did I miss not sure Lenny I'll be honest I'm not sure what you missed but let [Music] me oh sweet okay cool cool yeah be very happy to collaborate economics Ethan so let me get caught up here um Richard says I have not owned a vehicle since 2006 as I have negotiated a company truck package as part of employment pay me less get tax tax less but take over my Transportation burden do the that's genius Richard it's not a controversy to say that the Philippines is not the cult is the culture to support and raise a successful and happy uh family yeah Richard absolutely if you are able to offset that where your company truck is maintained they're paying for the tires they're paying for your oil change uh they're you know if you get a flat tire they've got triaa or another service to come out and fix that then that's the smart way to do it I mean I'm sure you sat down and did the math this is what it would cost me to own a private truck this is what it would cost if they're going to provide it for me I absolutely agree yeah you're going to have a lower tax burden and then you don't have to deal with the transportation that's and and then when you're done with the job you just turn it in yeah that's a that sounds like a solid deal for sure um Jose Rodriguez says Mike I will definitely let you know how it goes very good thank than you Jose Jesper says Jesper says if I had the option I definitely prefer to live in Southeast Asia because I'd be way more happy over there problem for me is getting a job there to live comfortably and being able to save up a bit Yeah the savings rate is the challenge a lot of people think it's making money here that's a challenge the greater challenge to me is contributing to my investment accounts um being able to save up the cash to go travel right I mean I I say this a lot it's pretty cheap to exist in Southeast Asia if you're simply talking about very basic shelter um you know a very basic food budget you could I mean you could really really live very modestly but if you're talking about having some nice meals if you're talking about dating if you're talking about jetting off for the weekend uh to actually live a life like you know we're all the way over here we're in these beautiful countries with these these tropical Vibes and these islands and these uh just mountains and jungles and forests and Wildlife that's what really costs and so uh it can be I don't know if disheartening is the right word but it's not always fun to be on a a hardcore budget over here uh when you see some of the things that for a little bit of money or what would be a little bit of money in the west that you could really go off and enjoy yourself you could be doing something really cool or interesting that um you know it's not necessarily the cheapest but it's it's something that you always wanted to do um maybe you could you could take an experience to the next level right so maybe there's a certain site that you want to go to and if you're on a lower budget you just go and look at it but you got a little bit more money maybe you could hire a guide to to break it down for you another example would be like maybe you're a foodie I'm a foodie as you could tell by my belly maybe you know you have to go out to that food district and try the restaurants or maybe you hire a guide and he knows the chef and he's able to introduce you to some dish you've never heard of um it's you don't have to have a lot of money like I said to exist over here you want to enjoy yourself or also maybe you want to live a modest life but you want to maximize you want to add to your savings right you want to prepare for a time in your life where you can't just work then yeah it's a little bit harder uh to pull off it's definitely a bit more complex uh yeah so e economics Ethan recommend checking out his channel he uh yeah he's an interesting guy he's he's an interesting guy for sure I think that he's [Music] uh he's really putting himself out there um he yeah he's really putting himself out there and and I respect the hustle and I think also just part of it too is like we're both South Asian so he mentioned he's South Asian I'm South Asian I yeah I I enjoy his channel for sure um Isaac says I'd like to visit up there one day it looks Charming in its own way uh not sure exactly where you're you're talking about um best friends yeah never worry about what others think of you in regards to work I was in mid-management banking but got burnt out amongst investing and doing options trading I also do food delivery income just doesn't discriminate dollar from food delivery is the same as a dollar from being a school teacher you know best friends that's that's really like that takes a lot of humility to say you're working in banking but you're also doing food delivery and I want to give credit to Ethan as well about that because Ethan said same he's working in in banking or I should say like he's working you know in the sales trading floor uh in banking and yet he's saying he's also at one time was looking to pick up food delivery gigs that that takes a lot of guts to say that because there's a lot of these high status people in the business world that would turn their nose of oh I'm not going to deliver food I'm too good for that and to say hey you know I've got this great career but I want to maximize my investments I I want to create some unique opportunities I want to get out of the house like sometimes we just want to get out of the house and work as an excuse to do it uh so yeah I I give Ethan credit for that and I give you that credit for that as well best friends to be able to say I've got this High status job a lot of people would dream of working in these fields but I'm also willing to deliver I mean you guys remind me of my friend's Uncle uh who worked as an engineer for IBM and he later went on to start his own business he's got a cleaning business he cleans his business cleans a lot of different uh government buildings and I asked him Uncle uh because we just kind of call him Uncle I'm not going to name name drop him but I said you know like tell me about your success because you're you on this really successful business ah man got you could tell have it a anyway he said I clean toilets I'm like what do you mean he said I made my money by cleaning toilets I literally went and scrubbed toilets to start this cleaning business uh now I've grown into this massive business and we have hundreds of employees and and so just the ability to say I would I'm an engineer and I'm also cleaning toilets like it just you know growing up in Asian-American household I was always taught you know my grandma would be nice to the garbage truck driver right she'd be nice she'd offer from soda she'd be friendly to him and as soon as they were out of earshot you need to go to college not be like that now as an adult I'm like these guys have job security these guys get government Ben certain benefits they probably get some kind of they're probably paying into some kind of pension plan like okay no it's not glamorous I'm never going to sit here and tell you oh the glamors of of working on a garbage truck but like they got job security in a time where a lot of people are getting laid off they got benefits in a time where a lot of independent contractors don't get benefits it's not the worst thing in the world I mean you're living in a uh developed country where the wages are really quite High even for basic jobs uh and they're providing a much needed service like I mean I should have fired back like do you want to live without their service like if you if you think we're better than them do you want to live without their service because I think the garbage is going to pile up in our driveway it's gonna be really nasty um so anyway I not to get off too on a personal note but I respect anybody that does hard work and is honest and is trying to better themselves is contributing to society and it's not a job where the the value to society is vague or um it's it's readily apparent that garbage uh people who work in the waste management industry are providing a much needed service I like uh I like the service that they provide I have gratitude that they're willing to deal with inclement weather uh perhaps some disrespectful people you know just all that stuff like it's it's it ain't glamorous but it's something Nar Society definitely benefits from uh bets friends yeah never okay yeah we got covered that Nicholas says I'm living in a high-end TW bedroom condo in Bangkok I'm paying 850 per month I went out my average one-bedroom lond rent out my average one bed London apartment for 3,000 per month yeah Nicholas uh the the Arbitrage there I mean you're you're doing well for yourself now I'm not sure what it cost you to own your London apartment but like you know 2150 a month you're living comfortably in Bangkok in my opinion I mean I would live comfortably on that amount maybe not you could call frivolously or luxuriously but you're you're living in a nice place you're eating good food uh you're able to Jet around town you can go on some dates that's a a solid healthy amount of money to enjoy Bangkok on I lived in Bangkok for less than that so yeah you're you're doing well for yourself Nicholas wish I was still well I'm very happy in the Philippines but it would cool it would be cool to to be there uh to be able to meet up grab some coffee or something if you come over here to the Philippines Nicholas would be happy to grab coffee with you Richard says as a guy in my 60s there's still many more things to learn that's refreshing as well Richard like that that's just such a positive attitude uh that's yeah I think I think having a learning mindset is so important in the modern world um [Music] Nicholas rented out my London apartment moved to Bangkok in December 2023 was planning my brexit since the start of covid yeah I don't blame you there it's interesting London is one of the cities that I have a lot of viewers in and I think that's super cool because I I like London in some ways I mean I visited there about a year and a half ago but in other ways I could see why you would not want to live there the weather pretty rough um the uh the cost was in I mean I spent like 150 pounds in 24 hours and it was one of the few cities I've been to where I thought wow this City's expensive because when you're in San Francisco it's so expensive everything seems cheap many places seem cheap by comparison uh just to go out and get a pizza you could easily spend $50 uh you know I used to go to this one pizza place I get two slices for like eight bucks and that was like a cheap meal out for me so uh yeah London very expensive I liked it though the tube was super comfortable I like the walkability factor I like that I could just walk around London I liked the uh the organization I of course this is going to be a very redundant statement but I liked the English right I like being able to just talk to people uh and be able to communicate with people effectively it was uh there's a lot to like there that being said the prices were insane the weather was not good uh the people the people in the service industry were nice to me but the people at the at some facilities I'll be vague here some facilities were very rude very tur uh not very welcoming I guess they just get in their heads that it's it's London so we can just treat people however we want and they're going to come back I don't know I don't know maybe for a short visit I don't yeah um my London Department expenses total including mortgage is a th000 yeah you're doing well I I think that's a a solid geoarbitrage opportunity and uh yeah if I stay in sales for a couple years I'm going to get a property probably back in in Tennessee my home state and rent it out and then have some some additional income there as well I just have like uh some spotty job history as far as my background goes because I started off doing online stores moved into sales have tried many different kinds of sales but I think that's a great option to have some real estate that's pulling in Revenue every month in a place where the population is growing and uh people have you know people got to commute right I mean people have to uh commute to work and especially with the rtw mandates return to work mandates and so it's a solid option for sure um um but yeah guys feel free to chime in with any questions or thoughts you have I'm going to try to go for at least another half hour maybe an hour um and then I've got to get to bed because I do have a lunch appointment tomorrow um may keep it to half hour I really got to finish this edit tonight because tomorrow what I'm afraid of happening is I do this lunch appointment and then that just that goes into the afternoon and then I start socializing in the afternoon and then it doesn't pop up and then Saturday I've got more stuff to do uh and then Sunday I've got more stuff to do so maybe I'll keep it to half hour but we'll we'll see I'll go for at least another half hour Jesper says if you get your new job will it be in sales as well uh yes so this is a sales role this will be a sales role uh sales is just what I've always done um it's yeah it's uh it's just what I've always done it's it can be stressful for sure but it's also provided me with a lot of opportunities it's helped me to develop social skills I grew up in kind of a socially stunted environment and so it helped me to learn how to communicate effectively with people it helped me to uh learn that I actually there's a lot of people I enjoy being around uh and it helped me to understand people it helped me to empathize better uh help me to relate to other people help me to make friends help me in my travels uh it's it's helped me in every facet of my life I think sales is a fantastic vehicle it can be a fantastic vehicle for personal development is it a grind in the moment absolutely but uh you know that's why salese get paid right I do have experienced or encountered some jealousy from some people oh I don't know why you people get paid so much and it's like oh try the sales job and you'll find out quickly how why sales people get paid and I also frame it this way everybody's in sales right if you're in a relationship you're selling to your significant other right that you're a good partner you want to help to navigate that relationship effectively you may not be thinking of it as sales but there's an element of that right you go and meet your significant others Family you're trying to sell to their family especially here in Asia where family is more very very important hey I'm a good partner for your loved one I'm here to and you have to back it up that's the other thing is people think of when they think of sales they think of someone trying to sell a used car I have nothing against used car sales when you could you saw my collab with Paul uh but that's that's their their assumption right that's their assumption is this kind of sleazy guy sales comes in many different forms first off most business many businesses need a salesperson second off salese help to negotiate there's a lot of work they do to educate the customer right that's a big part of my sales workor in the technology space is simply educating customers about what's out there helping them to understand hey you know about this solution hey what are you trying to accomplish what are your business goals trying to can make those connections uh it's not me sitting here trying to you know hustle something or whatever if I was that I I would monetize this YouTube channel in 10 different directions I'm slowly surely adding options to that because it's I believe in in making offers as a salesperson I if I wasn't making offers then you would have no reason to believe me as far as having a sales background or a business background uh but you get feedback right you get push back you get people telling you I think it's nonsense and then it's on me to kind of deliver but uh yeah let me let me um get to the rest of your question Jesper how long do you plan on working there and saving up before moving to Southeast Asia long term so there's a couple of directions I could take this in Jasper uh One Direction is that unfortunately the needs of the business change Tech is volatile layoffs happen let's say for whatever reason uh you know they wanted to go in a different direction after a year it does happen sometimes in sales it's not something I I want to happen I don't enter that opportunity if that opportunity presents itself thinking that uh but it's also just business it's not about hard feelings a lot of people get really upset about some of this stuff and you know I'm I'm thrilled for the opportunity I also accept it when things don't go my way the other direction and so what I would do in that scenario is I'd come back over I I would you know let's say things didn't line up after a year I'd come right back over I'd be hunting for my next job if the Market's better I might have an opportunity in mind the other direction is so that's option one the option two is I get promoted and I promote into a higher uproll uh more of what I would call a full sale a full cycle sales role where I'm not just top of funnel but I'm actually leading the deal through each stage to completion right so you hear the term closer if you talk if you hear about sales where I'm actually closing deal getting deals ined those tend to be more lucrative opportunities they also tend to be more stressful they also tend to be more competitive but uh doing this kind of work for a few years that would put me at the point where I'm financially independent I know the income that I can expect to make I know the savings rate that I intend to maintain and uh so it's either I come back in a year to live or I come back in a year to visit it go back and keep stacking that money making my investments and continuing to plan getting rid of things so those are kind of the two directions come back in a year for a while or come back in a year for a visit with still moving toward that direction of uh of of of a more permanent move and I continue I'll be continue to work on my YouTube channel uh on the weekends H after work is iffy because with sales you know you're you're socializing so much that some days after work a lot of days after work you just want to be alone sometimes because you've had these highlevel business conversations over and over and over again and your brain is just fried uh you you don't necessarily have the gas in the tank [Music] to put out something you could be proud of like I I want to help the audience I want to respect the audience's time and part of that to me is putting out something every single time that I could be proud of uh that I know I gave it my all and uh yeah you know I these streams do take some energy from me some Focus for me and if I'm really burnt out like if I've made a hundred telephone calls that day if I've sent 60 80 emails that day I've had six seven eight backto back half hour meetings uh which isn't every day but it's I would say every week uh those days I just want to like get some food lay down uh drink some water I've been usually staring at a screen for eight 10 hours and just decompress um sometimes YouTube can provide that for me but I don't count on it I don't count on YouTube providing that decompression Outlet um but yeah I hope that answers your question Jesper uh this this would be a sales opportunity it's just what I'm qualified for I kind of just ended up in sales because it's what I've always done and it's uh it's yeah coding and sales are two of the most lucrative professions that you could be in uh because you get massive leverage with coding you build a nice piece of code that has a great business function lots of upside there right with sales you sell something really expensive you get a piece of that you should be getting a piece of that right uh typically by the time you're negotiating really big deals you've got experience you know what you're worth uh and you're you're getting compensated for the amount of stress that you're going to go through uh to earn it because salese earn their money for sure um often some salese luck out they get in a green field blue ocean territory uh but I don't count on it I don't count on uh I don't count on it and I'm I'm wanting to learn and better my skill set selling in a down Market makes you sharp I mean it really sharpens you up and you you really push hard to control everything you can control become more articulate uh write more effective emails and just be like have that you know one of the things that people compliment me on with my live streams is that I'm go go go go go that's not natural for me that's something I learned in sales where people will put you on the spot and you're having to like negotiate and pull the conversation back and forth you're having to control the conversation and often in sales when you're working with another high- powerered business professional you're like almost wrestling with them verbally and so you have to be just like you can't pause they're going to look at you like what are you wasting my time for so you have to be willing to on the Fly come up with the response and uh yeah it's it's exhilarating it can be stressful um I definitely have had some stressful days in sales but uh yeah Nicholas says do you learn NLP and is it effective uh I haven't learned much about it I'm I I'll look into it Nicholas just not something I'm I'm super familiar with but yeah Richard says I am shipping whole beans grinder and French Press so caffeine will never be compliment compromised yeah Richard you're going to enjoy that the I swear the Philippines runs on caffeine and coffee uh but yeah definitely nice to have your own for home use cuz for me there are days where I'm like H I don't want to run to town but I need my caffeine so I'm GNA run to town and some of those days I'm thinking I wish I could just pour a cup here now I can technically go to my host family she's got coffee um but you know sometimes she's got other things going on she's taking care of the grandkids uh she she's doing some laundry she's got some priority and I don't want to interrupt her and I also don't want be messing around with her equipment right so yeah I think having your own to to provide your own caffeine is a a great option Richard Nicholas I worked as management consulting for one of the big four firms I really admire and respect high level sales guys amazing work ethic thank you Nicholas yeah I mean what I did when I was working in a I'll say recent role uh and I learned a lot every sales role I had I learned a lot I have nothing negative to say about the companies that um I worked for I feel like uh nobody from Tennessee like me from a no-name university with coming from the background that I came from they blessed me with opportunities that I never imagined having in my life but yeah to get prepared I would work on Sundays uh so to prepare for the week on Sundays I would be doing all kinds of admin and prep work how am I going to lay out my week to be successful how do I set myself up so I come in Monday I've got everything in line I'm not scrambling around I know exactly what I'm going to be doing and I try to fill up my calendar the week before so you kind of just build up a funnel basically but it is a grind and uh it can be unforgiving it can be frustrating uh you know you you're having to deal with scheduling sometimes you're scheduling people whose schedules are packed people who are very very busy uh who have things come up not even just in their personal life uh which is more of an obvious one but even professionally like you know I went through the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and that caused a lot of scheduling headaches you some of you may be familiar with the collapse of svb uh but that hit the tech industry hard and that really you know that threw a wrench my scheduling for at least a month uh maybe multiple months it really yeah it was really a stressful circumstance for a lot of people uh family of five hi from New Jersey Hi family of five I hope you're doing well in New Jersey Jesper says thanks for the inside I definitely know how you feel I teach for a living and I'm just tired after after work absolutely I mean teaching you know especially if you're an introverted person which I lean more introverted it can really drain you a lot it's uh you have to be on right I mean especially if you care and a lot of and some of my favorite people in the world that I've had in my life prior in my professional uh life or professional uh world as an adult we teachers teachers that believed in me teachers that invested time into me teachers that encouraged me in spite of my challenging background and uh yeah I have a i ow a great deal of of debt and gratitude to um to some really awesome teachers and also PR principles admin faculty uh some of the schools that I went to growing up that looked past my background and really believed in me and and uh they're part of the reason I am where I am today metch said oh hey metch I've recognized your tag I think this is your first time joining us or one of your first times joining us I've seen you in a number of other Philippines channels so great to have you in here welcome welcome I repair Vehicles tow roadside service and scrap vehicles self-employment often requires multiple streams of income absolutely uh one of my buddies Ron actually does something similar I need to reach out to Ron because he he's going through some stuff right now uh he's actually an individual I'd love to interview and to talk to he uh he's a Filipino American guy and uh he's got an interesting story for sure I'm I I met him through a group I was in um through another uh a mutual acquaintance of ours um but yeah I mean I agree with you you need multiple streams of income my ideal this is just my ideal and I'm happy to open it up with you guys is uh one have investment income right passive income coming in from Investments and then stack YouTube on top of that such that my food transportation and shelter are paid for with with my investment income and then everything on top of that is YouTube income contributing to my investments stacking more into my investments um building up uh yeah just building up extra income streams like building on top of YouTube like doing memberships uh consults is a part of that I I definitely want to get more into the consult side of things not something that's probably necessary for a lot of the guys watching this who are probably very experienced but there's going to be more and more people that want to live this lifestyle there's going to be more and more people that they're unhappy with their life in the US the cost of living ain't going down in our lifetimes as far as what I could tell I don't see cost of living coming down they uh they're stressed out maybe they've been through difficult relationship issues maybe they've had some job insecurity maybe they just don't like the weather and I want to sit down with these guys be able to provide them with some insight and some questions to kind of help them figure out what they want uh because for a lot of agreeable guys guys that tend to be more want to go along to get along they don't know what they want they know they just don't know what they want they have the sense they want to live in Southeast Asia but they don't know what that looks like they don't know where in Southeast Asia is right for them some people they think of it as one big monolith and they need to talk to somebody that's been boots on the ground in almost all of these countries uh that can really help to dig like what do you want do you want Island life do you want to live in the mountains uh do you have a certain dietary restrictions like I'm not a nutritionist but I know a fair amount to experimentation so there's there's a lot to dig in there and uh I think it's it's valuable let's see C teach uh te NLP is an approach to communication that some sales and marketing people use yeah I'll take a look at it Nicholas um Richard says teachers like parenting is very high energy as well as exhausting yeah I teaching I it can be very difficult um Craig says I'm from North Georgia I currently work in it it's hectic sometimes and I'm getting tired of it that's why I'm teaching myself how to day trade the goal is to become a digital Nomad very interesting Craig yeah so I actually have a friend from North Georgia as well I'm not going to name drop him but he also had a career in it and uh where I'm from not too far I'm from probably about two and a half hours away from northia and it's true I mean it you're having to constantly learn new things you're having to constantly develop your skill set it's a corporate grind for sure uh Craig says dollars to move to the Philippines in retirement if not before yeah it's it's definitely a solid option I think it's increasingly interesting to a lot of guys it's uh yeah it's I mean guy you know people were telling me you're nuts to go there that doesn't make any sense I'm like look I've watched hundreds probably uh probably thousands of hours of content on uh on the Philippines and I've traveled here now multiple times and I have friends here Filipino friends and local friends it's a great option for some people it's not for everyone there's going to be guys that come here and decide H the weather ain't for me H the traffic is a bit much whatever it may be but I think giving it a shot is worth it for a lot of guys um bets friends investment income is good via yield Max roundhill and Defiance ETFs and yeah I'll take a look at those bets friends Medtech I own two large commercial buildings so my plan is to prepare the better building for lease thus I may be able to achieve a rental income solid advice solid Insight Medtech to to have some investment income and uh to help to supplement your I'm not sure what age our Medtech uh I I definitely have seen you on Philippines info Channel streams uh but uh yeah I mean that's a solid example like United States very industrial country it's I don't see that changing anytime soon some would argue that it's actually going through a reindustrialization process that industry is being reshored or near shored rehor is probably the better as a more accurate phrase but yeah I mean I know in Tennessee they're building a number of plants to produce I think electric vehicles uh go not dollars metch says day trading seems dangerous plan why not value invest for longer term so I can't speak for other people this is simply how I assess risk I lean toward value investing Medtech for myself I won't discount other people's strategies but uh for me personally Medtech I I'm more of a value investor at this point that's just what my risk appetite is I'd rather uh I'd rather focus on building like some online businesses because that's just what I've seen more success in that's what I'm I think better at that's what my skill set is suited for uh but there's yeah there's a lot of different ways each person has to assess their risk appetite uh what they're good at what their goals are their timeline uh but that's a fair point you know and of course nothing on this channel is investing advice I will never provide investing advice ever nothing I ever say should ever be misconstrued true is investing advice invest at your own risk and yeah I just want to make that very clear this is not investing advice I'm happy to talk about what I do I will never suggest you to do anything uh in in that Arena it's just simply not something I'm licensed to do I'm not uh I yeah not something that I'm I'm qualified or licensed to do um Malik uh hey Alex Malik oh yeah your name sounds super familiar Malik I think we we uh you've been watching for a long time and uh you an early subscriber I think you were subscribed to me like back three years ago when I started to get more into YouTube thank you for uh sticking with us here through this very slow Journey uh I'm 50 years old and my plan is to retire either in Colombia or the Philippines do you have any insights on the pros and cons between the two which would you pick between the two uh so I this is going to be super high level Malik because there there's a lot of similarities and there's a lot of differences uh so the biggest factor for me is safety when I was in Colombia my friends are always warning me about safety I personally didn't have any major incidents as far as theft or or um danger I did have one instance where I had a bunch of random like teenagers surround me and try to convince me to go off with them somewhere and I said no no no they kept following me we walked into an auto repair shop I was like no no they started cursing me out and then eventually left I don't know what they wanted this was in medine uh in fact I could pull up the neighborhood because I'm not going to go back to that neighborhood but let me go and pull up that neighborhood so you guys can get a sense of where I'm talking about let me medine Colombia okay no Medan Columbia not Mediterranean restaurant here we go okay now I've got this pulled up let me just screen share [Music] sir so I was in this neighborhood uh and I crossed over I was actually uh living over on this side of the stadium I was on avenita Colombia and I ended up walking over here to film and that was not a good decision I ended up in this place body uh maybe that's not it it it was in this neighborhood SE Americana it was somewhere it was somewhere around here somewhere around here maybe over on this side but yeah it was sketchy and it was not a situation I want to repeat and that's really the central issue Malik that I would say is that in uh when I was in Bangkok I made I went to a Peruvian restaurant a popop style restaurant I asked gentleman who was from Peru uh like why are you here in Bangkok I've been to Peru I love it and he told me it's the safety issue so that's what I would say is just really do a lot of research into safety in Colombia can you live there safely sure I mean I I have friends that have lived there and are from there uh but when I'm there numerous different people in both medine and bogot warned me be careful um the hotel I stayed in in medine for a couple of months he kept the door locked uh so when you came when you left the hotel they had to let you out by unlocking the door and letting you out and when you came back he like checked he looked behind you is there somebody behind you like so you just it's kind of a tense it can be kind of a tense Vibe I have a bug on my nose anyway it can be kind of a tense Vibe uh I love Colombia in spite of all that beautiful country I never had any major extreme problems but I'd be lying if I didn't say that it's safety is a concern there uh now in the Philippines I haven't had any major safety concerns um and so I lean Philippines part of that is being in uh Asian-American I just am you know more accustom to Asian cultures broadly speaking it's just more similar to what I grew up in uh but I love colia I mean colia most biodiverse country in the world you've got a lot in a small country you've got beautiful beaches tropical Vibes you've got uh cities in the mountains like meí and bogat you've got rainy kind of Seattle style weather in bogat medin is more like city of Eternal spring that's a really hard decision Malik I would say it comes down to do you need access one of the thing big things is do you need access to the US if you need to go back and forth to us Columbia is going to be a lot closer you fly four hours up to M three or four hours up to Miami and then you fly under your final destination maybe if you have rental property in the US that you need to be checking on Colombia is going to be a bit closer also the Latin Vibe the Philippines isn't really Latin it gets called that and because of the Spanish influence but it's uh it feels to me like more Asian than anything else um and more Americanized I think the Philippines feels more Americanized than Colombia but col Colombia uh the weather is nice I think I personally prefer some of the weather in Colombia uh because it's it could be milder uh in some places but for me the big deciding factor is safety I just feel safer here in the Philippines overall um yeah that's that's what it comes down to me for me but I I would be I would happily visit Colombia again in the future uh I think part of it for me is the social life my social life was decent in Colombia uh it's it's very strong here Malik says it's been great to watch you grow over the years thank you so much Malik I really appreciate your subscription metch says 54 Cambodia is my favorite Southeast Asian country yeah Cambodia underrated I've had a great time every both times I've been to Cambodia I've been twice had a fantastic time it's uh yeah I enjoy it a lot I mean it's Pome pen is surprisingly International like you see xats there from all over the world uh it's rapidly developing you see new buildings everywhere it's a cool Vibe by the way guys I am going to wind down here shortly because I'm starting to lose my voice and I've got a lot of talking to do tomorrow uh so I do want to give my voice a break um but yeah Medtech I agree Cambodia is awesome and uh yeah Cambodia I would love to go back I have some friends there still one in friend in particular that she owns a guest house next to the airport and uh yeah I'd like to see her at some point she's just a really warm and welcoming person and um doesn't speak English but just one of those people I I had a good connection with family five in a boring I'm a boring investor S&P index large cap Tech rentals that's it yeah family of five that's much more my style as well Nicholas I was in medine for three weeks in January this year had zero problems really enjoyed it stayed in hostiles I loved the food in medine like people were telling me the food in Colombia is so so I thought everything was Super Fresh um the ingredients were Super Fresh I really liked some of the what I would call Farm to Table style restaurants people were super nice like the owner of the hotel I stayed in was telling me about his family's property up in the mountains was trying to to invite me up there um I was a little bit nervous just based on what I've heard but the Colombians that I met and I spent time with were super nice super inviting super friendly treated me like family uh really warm people but also cautioning me right they're always telling me be cautious here like no Dar papaya don't show your valuables um even if even if you think it looks safe like be very cautious so what I do to offset that and you'll uh you know you'll see this I I don't wear the fancy clothes this is I think hannes I got it on Amazon I don't mind uh wearing some beat up shoes I don't wear any fancy Apple watch I this is a cheap iPhone I don't I don't use a lot of valuables when I'm traveling so and I also could pull off Lattin the Latin look so maybe it's just me but um yeah if my DTV application gets declined my plan is to be in Duma uh yeah that sounds great Nicholas keep us posted Richard says I need to leave as always I enjoyed the time sleep well and see you next time thank you so much Richard well everybody I am going to call it uh it's been wonderful to meet the long-term subscribers and the new subscribers like shout out to Tony for being a long-term subscriber I this channel wouldn't be possible without Tony he helped me to get through the early days when I wasn't sure what I was doing and um help me to better understand why I was doing this uh if you're watching this on replay please subscribe to the Channel Down Below give us a thumbs up it helps with the YouTube algorithm and uh finally comment uh comment down below if you have any feedback for me it's a gift to me it's always appreciated I learn something new every time from my subscribers and my commenters and my viewers and uh oh thank you so much Nicholas I'm glad you enjoyed it uh so yeah until next time I hope everybody has a great weekend and we'll chat with you soon

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