The HUGE MISTAKES I made doing business in PHUKET Thailand @The Thairish Sun
first day we opened i had some leaflets made up and i made everything that was on the menu and i put a sign outside saying free food so i said to her here's the leaflets can you just stand outside and let people know we're open just hand it to people as they go open new restaurant there guys give us a chance sometimes it's kind of said what we sold and stuff and then uh no what do you mean no like it's like the boss is asking you to do something you need to go outside and do that and i went back out and she still sat there doing nothing so i said something that would have motivated me because i would have known my boss is unhappy with me he obviously thinks i'm doing a bad job and so something what you're doing there like you might as well go home if you're only going to sit on your phone you know you i need your help went back in two seconds later she came in she got a coat on her bag this is one o'clock in the afternoon on the first day i said what are you doing i'm going home hey folks pete here from the irish times coming at you from downtown bangkok at about 9 00 a.m on a thursday morning it is nice weather today a bit overcast but perfect for my uh irish skin you know i like days like this in thailand i can actually go out and i don't get burnt to a crisp so the person i'm interviewing today doesn't actually want to be named and he's going to explain why at the start of the interview and this person by their own admission made a number of mistakes which led to the downfall of their business the business failed in phuket thailand we're gonna get into that in this video check out this folks we got a huge construction project going on here they're building a new condo right here in central bangkok you can probably hear the noise starts at about eight o'clock in the morning and goes all day and they're working really fast this thing is flying up anyway folks i hope you enjoyed the interview let me know leave me a comment below i'm always interested to hear your opinions and like share and subscribe if you're not already subscribed and you enjoy this interview now while i go off and get myself some breakfast oh and by the way folks this interview was filmed in koh samui last week and obviously i'm back in bangkok now but what i'm going to do is as we do the interview i'm going to b-roll the shots of the hotel that myself and noon stayed at because i thought it was really good and was good value for money i think we paid 1400 baht per night so you'll see shots of the hotel as we do the interview and if you're interested go and check out the hotel if you're ever in costa me anyway let's get into this interview irish sun nice to see it was finally the second most famous irish person on youtube so for the sake of this interview we're going to call this man it's The Thairish Sun because he doesn't want to give his real name away which is fair enough you have a good reason what's the reason i'm just fairly private person i haven't said it myself on my own channel maybe i will and i don't know maybe i'm being stupid even not doing because everyone else seems to i just i don't know i i i've had people come up to me in the streets already and i only have like 600 subscribers and and i don't know i'm just kind of private off camera you just said that you you're not interested in being famous yeah i'm not which is not looking at yeah that was a dream of mine when i was a kid and now i used to be an extrovert i used to do a lot of like theater musical theater and acted in some like low budget films and i was in bands for years but even when i was in bands because i was already a bit older i used to have to get drunk before i could go on stage and stuff is just i don't know um i'm quite i've got social anxiety i guess and well you're a brave man to sit down and do an interview for youtube so let's let's get started right yeah tell everybody where you're from because you have a really interesting story um i grew up in north wales but um my so i'm irish but my family moved to all four of my grandparents are irish and obviously my parents my dad's from limerick my mom's from dublin and uh just before i was born big recession in ireland there was no money to be had so they moved over to they weren't the first some of my dad's brothers and sisters had already moved over they followed them over and then that's where i grew up as a result so every school holiday or summer holidays and everything i spent all my time in ireland and as soon as i couldn't wait to get back to ireland i thought uh i i just didn't really like living in north wales and i thought when i moved to ireland i'd be like super happy and i was wrong so that's why i've ended up on the other side of the world you know so what was it that you were not happy about in ireland yeah the weather is definitely one of the things but i don't know um again this is i guess kind of personal but i had quite bad them like depression and stuff and i didn't i didn't realize i had it until i didn't have it i thought that was just my personality that maybe i was just a bit of a [ __ ] or whatever you know and then i moved to australia i was like 29 and about six or seven months afterwards i realized i was waking up in a good mood all the time and i just uh changed i love ireland in a way i love going back there now for a holiday and spending some time and catching up with people but um yeah i don't want to i don't want to say anything bad about the people in my life and stuff so i just i wasn't super happy that you know fair enough yeah believe it or not okay we'll leave it at that right so first of all we actually actually didn't say where we are where are we right now we are in chiweng in kosamini actually yeah yeah this is my mana so i'm glad you came i knew one day we'd have to meet but i figured it would be in bangkok so it's good that you've come yes my first time ever being here i've only been here like a couple of hours two or three hours so i'm looking forward to exploring khao samui for the first time it's a wonderful island you love it yeah it's a pleasure to meet you as well and it's nice to see that church you're wearing yeah my friend is this is my friend's bar mad mohali if you're ever in phuket in rawai go and check out madame halley's bar right so big question what you're doing here on samui i don't do a great deal here at the minute to be honest i used to have a restaurant in phuket i lived in phuket for the first four years when i was in thailand my friend actually moved there first and i'd been a couple of times but my friend moved there and i would come and see him for a week and then i would come for two weeks for a month and then i realized i was actually happier in samui than i was in phuket and so i thought why don't i just move over and originally the plan was to start a business here or something and then looking for an opening so as i say in phuket at a restaurant i've personally found that the the food in phuket wasn't great couple of all right restaurants but the i'm talking farang food and great selection but when you actually go in there's the food wasn't great whereas in samui it's amazing so when i came here straight away i was okay so the restaurant's not the right thing because the standard of food here is very good most of the frank places will do actual back bacon rather than the streaky bacon you can get sausages that actually taste like they taste back home when you go in and order chips they cut up a potato they make actual chips it's not just out of a freezer in phuket it's a lot of shortcuts i found and what kind of restaurant did you have in phuket it was comfort food mainly but we so the street i was on was uh it's called soy ed it's in in shillong so 700 800 meters to my right was tiger muay thai and seven or eight hundred meters to my left was phuket top team it was a fitness street so you had to have a healthy menu there and then but i was also doing comfort food so um sundays we were busy as hell because that was everyone's day off they're not training and stuff during the week not so much because there's people there that wouldn't eat a potato you know because they don't want the carbs and they're super super super strict so what we were getting during the week was people who were injured or they were about to go home or they just arrived you know when i first started there so tiger was it was a muay thai place and uh top team would be mma and then they started sort of stepping on each other's toes in terms of they were doing both and then you'd have a lot of on the street you'd have a lot of people selling like muay thai gear gloves and blah blah so then tiger started selling their own brand of gloves their own muay thai t-shirts their own shorts so people that were training there didn't want the generic stuff they started buying the tiger stuff you know same in top team same in all of them so everyone on in that area is like a walking billboard you know kind of like what i'm doing right now so they're all like this is the gmail training you know and then after they did that they started doing accommodation so then the hotel started taking a hit because so people were buying packages before they come so they have already bought that hotel they've already bought all their training and that and then the nail in the coffin for my business was that they all started opening their own restaurants and so people before they'd even come would buy a package online and when you come they hand you a load of vouchers so your breakfast and your dinner's already paid for you so you're not going to go to anywhere else even if you don't like the food there you paid for it so you're going to eat there anyway so people were coming and they were getting almost an all-inclusive there was no reason to leave your compound it was just difficult because like i say i was mainly trying to do comfort foods and people didn't want to eat did you jack it in did you quit the business yeah well i got rid of it yeah and it's a tattoo shop now it was last time i was there and i was able to get out relatively and hassle-free in the end because the landlord knew he could charge other people way more than he was charging me so he was happy happy enough for me to just step away and but there was also a lot of staff issues that i had yeah so let's get into that because you told me you have an interesting story about running the business and issues that you had yeah and you said that you'd like to tell people that are thinking about coming over and setting up a business in thailand that you know really think it true that it's a great place to come for a holiday but if you're coming to do business in thailand you got to read you need to be careful in my experience yeah and especially where i was so if a business closed the next day someone that was in that area thought i could make money in there you know and it was like you didn't see any shutters down you didn't see any closed so the illusion was that everyone must have been making money but if you were on that street for six months you saw that that stopped being a cafe and now they were selling whatever muay thai gear and then they stopped being a muay multi-gear stuff and now they were trying to be a tattoo parlor or whatever and it's just the turnover was was massive you know and but as soon as it closed another one would open and because the footfall on that street is if you go to that street it used to be a country road so i knew about the street in 2008 my brother went and trained at like tiger muay thai at the time you're a tiger on one side you had the top team on the other and you had one restaurant called tony's in the middle and if you go down there now it's like they need to widen the street it's it's it's like a it's like a city of it's a town of its own everything you need is on that street you know the footfall was there and there was a lot of people you know if it's a busy area why were the businesses failing because partly because of what i said about you've already paid so you you've paid and the thing is they could have saved money all these people because once they got there they realized wow that hotel's way cheaper than what i paid and that restaurant is way cheaper than what i'm paying but when you're at home and you're on your pc and you think oh it's only 10 euros for my dinner every night and it's only eight euros for my breakfast every morning and there it's only 30 euros a night for my hotel just this is fantastic and then when you get there you realize you could have rented a place for ten thousand baht for the month you know you could have in a different restaurant every night for cheaper and had a bit more variety and stuff but you've already paid right so when i first opened it wasn't like that and it's just as the place got busier and busier the bigger businesses got even bigger and the smaller businesses suffered as a consequence you know the main reason i opened it because i used to spend time on that street and i knew the food was muck everywhere else so i thought if i open up a restaurant on that street i'm going to clean up but the reality was that most people weren't they weren't there for that they weren't there for tasty food they were there for getting fit for and a lot of them were actually a lot of my customers were like actual ufc fighters or bomber one fc and stuff like people that i've seen on tv and stuff it was like wow you know thanks for coming i made friends with a guy called vaughn lee and he was in the ufc at the time and now he's one of the main trainers at phuket top team he's coming in my place all the time and so you mentioned you had a staffing issues yeah what happened with the staff so when i moved over the restaurant wasn't my idea it was my brother had already negotiated the deal i came over i kind of moved here by by accident there was no planning i came on a holiday i'd already been a few times like many people i love thailand and i will say in advance if you're coming here on holiday or if you're coming here to retire or whatever this is a fantastic location if you're coming in to spend money you've made a very very wise decision this is a great place to come if you're coming here to try and make money everything gets a little bit more complicated and difficult a lot more complicated and difficult and then so for example you can only own 49 of your own business so you have to have two thai partners they have to own a combined or you can have as many type partners as you want but you have to have at least two and they have to own together at least 51 percent of the business now you can still be the chairman of your business so you kind of the ceos you can there's some control but um you can't own thailand's very protective of thai people which i don't have a problem with but as a foreigner coming in it can be quite difficult so when i first came over i come on holiday to kopanyang actually and i spent one day here was the first time i'd been here and then went back to phuket and my brother had already negotiated this deal for this restaurant and it was the field at the time and they were going to build it we knew how much rent we were going to pay and everything and then this had been dragging on and on and then finally in the end he said i'm not going to do it so after we left i i didn't get on the plane i'm supposed to leave after 19 days i didn't get on the plane i said i'll just milk it i'll stay for the 60 days tourist visa and that and then i'll leave and then i went and knocked on the guy's door said i'm his brother let's do it you know let's crack on so we i went home sold everything and came back and when i came back the place was already built and it was a lot kind of bigger and more i would have been happy with a kiosk just a small kiosk i wanted to sell maybe four or five things that you could keep hot and when people came in you'd literally ch and hand it to them and off they go but i had so much space it was the first day when i opened i also ran out on money because this wasn't planned and so i pumped all the money i could into it and on the day we opened them the guy that owned like really owned it that i was renting off came to me and said i'm very disappointed with your restaurant i actually said it to me and i said what do you mean he was like is this it like you know and i was like well this is kind of the vision i had and then he was like you're not even doing thai food and blood and you kind of had a bit of a go at me and then and there was people who would come in and be like oh lovely like chicken shoe or beef stew whatever and do you have whatever and i'd be like no we just have this and all right i'll come back some other time when i'm on my own and they thought and i was like i'm gonna have to make a bigger menu for this place and like i say it was a big space anyway so um i moved over and i didn't have a thai girlfriend at the time i didn't really have any close thai friends and the military coup was still sort of ongoing it just people like your mental like why have you come over here at this exact moment and the truth was i didn't have much going on at 2014 if you looked at what i did on 2014 on paper i had a fantastic year i traveled all around i've spent loads of time in america and that but um i was actually mentally not in a fantastic place to be perfectly honest and um i didn't really have much going on so when we came over it was new year's end of 2014 2015 and then this sort of fell on my lap i said i'll give it a go and when i come back we we needed someone to own the 51 right so my brother already had a girl that he trusted and he said this girl's going to be she's a hundred percent you can trust her and and the other people i thought i could trust when i spoke to them they made it clear like they were going to take over like they didn't just want it in name like they wanted things done their way and blah blah and i was like it's not really what i'm looking for and so this girl was supposed to be my head she'd never worked in a restaurant but they were like it's not rocket science you can train someone to work in a restaurant so that's all right we'll go with the girl that my brother was going with and then before i'd even opened i knew that i'd made a big mistake so she now owned 51 of my business and she'd come in and then this is before we opened right so i'm still setting the place up and she kept turning up and i was like in my head i'm like okay so this is maybe she's quite dedicated and really wants to learn and stuff so the first day she mocked the floor we weren't open yet but like i'm like okay that's good she's cleaning the place up a bit but she did it with cold water right and no bleach and no soft like not softener but like tile cleaner or whatever you know so i said to it and i didn't i'd only just moved i didn't understand the whole like saving face and how to speak to thai people and the fact that they don't want a frank telling them anything ever right which is another thing you need to know if you're planning on coming here to own a business and ideally have a girlfriend and then you tell your girlfriend what to tell them and they might listen and so i was like oh you know it's just that cleaning it with cold water and i know it's not not really going to clean it you know like when it dries you can see it still looks like kind of dusty and and i thought i said it nicely but maybe i didn't say it nicely enough you know and then so the next day i was doing whatever i was doing and she came in again and so there was loads of there was tons of stuff to do right and i'm like maybe you could do this dude and i'll mop the floor and i was thinking okay you mopped the floor yesterday and no one's been here since but okay so i'm like don't forget that you know the bleach and the it leaves off a nice smell and when people come in you know they get no this place has just been cleaned and she's like kind of muttering under her breath and talking in thai and stuff and i'm like she's not and i'm like remember boil the kettle now and it'd be nice and hot and you know and cold water no bleach no no and i'm like she's not listening she's not listening so i'm saying to my brother she's not really she's not really getting what i'm saying you know i mean and then he's like don't worry she's 100 100 this girl no problem so i'm like okay and then this happened a few times she just wasn't getting it and so i uh i bought three boxes of stuff one day right and i actually i said to her like because those cobwebs on the windows and stuff we need to get rid of all that before we open and do this and do that and she's no interest so i was doing everything myself right and my lawyer had said it's okay when you're closed we should once you open the police are going to come and they did often this is a much more relaxed island and you'll see white people taking the order and taking the money off you and stuff in phuket you cannot do that there it's there's so many police in phuket like even driving around on your motorbike you're gonna get pulled over they're gonna ask if you've got the right license if you don't have your helmet on or anything they're going to open the thing and look if you've got anything illegal there's a lot of police in phuket and they're really on top like if you want to drive from one town to another chances are you're going to go through a police checkpoint you know they're everywhere in phuket so and they did used to come all the time and check my paperwork and i'd be like aren't you the same remember i showed you a few weeks ago like that i have to by the time i was still a few days away from having my work permit and uh but she said long as your clothes no problem right so i bought these three boxes of stuff and i had this display fridge made it's like you see them at home they're nine foot long you go into a deli you know you'll have a bit of lettuce and a bit of tomato a bit of onion and they take it out and it's it's refrigerated as well right but getting it in phuket was impossible so i had to get one made in bangkok and the money they wanted to send it down to phuket was more than me renting a car getting all the gasoline and stuff driving up there spending two nights in a hotel driving all the way back and i added it up and i was like the money i'm saving even with the time and effort it's taking i'll just do that so i drove before i went i went to the shop and i bought the plates the pots the pans the salt sellers and you know everything you need and the first night i drove as far as who were in so i'm in the hotel in hawaii and she sends me a photo from of her in the restaurant you know and i'm like oh how come you went and said i'm just hanging out and i was like okay also she was supposed to help me find stuff and make it like a little they would they would be her friends right so it would be like a little community and then they'd come and hang out you know and and drink and make the place look busy and stuff right which didn't happen and on opening day it's still just me and her so i came back and so it takes me a day to drive to hua hin then i went to bangkok to get the thing back to hua hin slept there for the night drove down so i've been gone for three days went to sleep i came in on the fourth day and she was there again mopping the floor cold water nothing else right i went into the kitchen and all the boxes that i bought were still exactly as i'd left them she hadn't unpacked anything she had and i because i'm thinking like i'm going to go back and everything's going to be like set up and kind of i'm like okay she's done nothing so i had to do everything and then the very first day we opened so like i said i kind of knew i'd already i was i was in for it with this girl first day we opened i had some leaflets made up and i made everything that was on the menu and i put a sign outside saying free food people just had to come in and eat for free i just wanted them to see what we had and then say oh i had you know how to play in a place there today it was lovely so i said to her here's the leaflets can you just stand outside and let people know we're open just hand it to people as they go open new restaurant there guys give us a chance sometimes it's kind of said what we sold and stuff and then uh no i don't know what do you mean no like it's like the boss is asking you to do something you need to go outside and do that and she's like no i'm too shy to do that i don't want to do it and i'm like but nobody knows we're open and we've been open for about an hour or so now maybe an hour and a half not one person's come in the door right so i'm like please like please i need you to do this just so ty i'm in the kitchen doing stuff and i come out and she's taking a chair she sat outside and she's on her phone playing snake or candy crush or whatever and the leaflets are on the floor and i'm like what are you doing like please i so i got them and i went out into the middle of the road and like i say the football here is amazing you get rid of these leaflets in no time so i was like hey guys how you doing yet just opened it and i'm like i can't do this legally i said i'm still two days away from having my work permit i said please it's very easy you know they're not they're not going to give you any hassle they're nice people that no i don't feel comfortable doing it so i sent my brother a message and i'm like please man maybe you can get through to it so he screenshotted what he sent back to her and it was really nicely worded like please can you help him because you know by tomorrow he's gonna have to throw all this food in the bin and just help him out and that and i went back out and she still sat there doing nothing so i said something that would have motivated me because i would have known my boss is unhappy with me he obviously thinks i'm doing a bad job and so something what are you doing there like you might as well go home if you're only gonna sit on your phone you know you i need your help went back in two seconds later she came in she got a coat and a bag this is one o'clock in the afternoon on the first day i said what you doing i'm going home out the door gone so now i'm stood there i'm still waiting for my work permit to come through and the one thing my lawyer said do not ever be on them premises without a thai person because they'll slaughter you i mean if they don't close you down on the spot they'll want a lot of money make sure you always have a thai person there with you so you can say this is my stuff so i had to close on the very first day after three hours right now by the grace of god about ten minutes after we opened a thai guy i think he was tired he might have been burmese but he came in and then he was dressed as a chef and he was looking for a job and i said she said he wants a job and i'm like how much does he want i forget it was low though like nine or ten thousand a month and i'm like tell him yeah you can start right now she said he said he'll start tomorrow so i'm like okay so it was just luck that he had turned up so the following day i came in and i'm sat there thinking please god please let him show up let him show up ten o'clock comes ten past ten quarter past ten no sign of him and i'm like i'm not going to be able to open again and finally he pulls up on the bike and i'm like yes but i'm torn between do i say to him hey you know you you you're 15 minutes late mate you know and or do i just be happy you've shown up so i've opted with just be happy that he's shown up and we got on all right that day but it was like faulty towers you ever seen faulty towers yeah yeah he was manuel and i was basil and and he had not he knew less english than i knew thai and all i knew was saudi cup and cop punk up he had nothing nothing me so he's my waiter right and top and my chef right so i had to send him out with the pen and paper not speaking a word of english so he'd be like stood in front of them and i was at the doorway you know like this and he they'd say what they wanted and he'd like and then he'd look and i'd be like you know and he'd and he'd come back in and then we had to make up this we had our own little language because we couldn't speak to each other we'd use google a lot but it was literally kind of like we made our own little sign language so i'd be like oh two chicken shoes bit of bread and then we've we managed to make it we made a lot of mistakes but we managed to make it work right and he'd be cooking sometimes and i'd be like someone's calm you know and he didn't know what i was saying so i'd have to like and like kind of push him out the door and then it was just me and him day two i went to macro and when i came back that girl was there with two police officers right now i still hadn't got my work permit so they're like where's your work permit i said well i'm not working i said i just got here i said he's he's working and and i did have some shopping that i just bought and stuff was on the bike and then they're like we want you to come to the station i said i haven't done anything wrong so i'm not going to the station and then she's like oh real angry head on us and she's angry but she owns 51 percent of this business 51 of the business yeah all right come on at this point and so she said i want i want 13 000 baht and i said for one day's work and you left at one o'clock i said come on like what are you talking about she's like i want 13 000 back right now and like real like why did she want that money well i guess because she knew she owned it she had some leverage was do i mean so i anyway in that moment what i did was i kind of panicked because i didn't really want to deal with the thai police i knew i didn't have my work permit fully so it was it was in the post it was like i think i got it the next day or the day after that it was it was ready it was all good to go but um i went down i took out the thirteen thousand i had that and the big like hmm kind of i got you kind of grin on her face and she started counting it out in front and then she went and handed it back to me and i'm like what like you asked for 13 no 30 and i was like [ __ ] i'm not giving you 30 000. i said no it's a family mart across the way so i went across to the family mart i just left the police they were still taught and i was like nah and i had no money in my phone or anything so i was panicking but my lawyer lived just at the end of the road and she's a good lawyer so i went into the i topped up my phone i wouldn't leave the shop i was like look they're stood outside now they'd come across the road they stood outside the family mart so i'm like um i need you to come right now i should just put me on loudspeaker so i put her on loudspeaker she started talking and the two cops went on the bike and took off so now it's just me and her and she's like she went down went to my lawyer she knew where my lawyers was and so my lawyer called me that day and said look you need to get her off the book straight away she wants 20 000 baht and she wanted 30 but i was like no i'm not giving it to him the lawyer spoke over we negotiated down to 20. and so then following day this is day two of me owning a business by the way and so i had to go down the next day and we signed the documents to get her off the papers and i had to get new owners to come in and which is another story but they they never caused me any problem i they never called it how did you get her off to papers by giving her twenty thousand baht had she accepted that yeah she took the twenty thousand baht and she sat well i mean we could have always just changed the business name it would have cost more than 20 000 baht basically if i could have gotten out of it i would have done but um this was the easiest way so um like i say this was day two so there's hazards to opening a business here to say the least and so we got her off the books but it's still just me and this guy now i had a banner made up and i put it up outside the restaurant now it was ugly and i really didn't want it there i mean this is a big banner and in english it says staff wanted apply within and underneath in tight says the exact same thing right and i had so i mean i went through so much stuff you would not believe i had people call me i'm coming in tomorrow and i just wouldn't show up or they'd come and after 10 minutes to say i don't like the job and leave i had one woman come she was a lawyer and i was like you're a lawyer like she was a lawyer for phuket fc and she was like yeah but uh i forget why but they canceled the season it might have been because of the military coup but they cancelled the season she said i don't really have much to do this would be nice i'll get to meet some people and stuff and i think she thought she literally just had to write down the order and and i was like okay great so you're in charge of the front of the house so you need to wipe the tables clean i'd give her a little and you could see her face just drop and i was like so sweeping brushes over there you know went into the kitchen and then she's coming is that my phone i was like no i don't think so should i oh and oh no disaster kind of thing and she's like i have to go something's popped up when i open this thing the reason i did it was because i thought i loved phuket and i loved being on the beach i wasn't expecting to make a fortune right i just wanted the restaurant to pay for itself and give me a work permit so that i could enjoy my life and eat for free you know so i wasn't really but it ended up being me going to macro at 8 30 in the morning to get all the stuff to go back and work 12 hours i mean i was locked there people would come in and be oh mate you're living the dream hey living in phuket this is unbelievable and i'd be like man i haven't been on the beach in like six weeks you know like you've got sand on your feet you've been in the gym twice a day like this was kind of before i got into health and fitness but at the time that was my plan i thought i'll go to the gym every day i'll go to the bhd my life's gonna be amazing and i ended up being a prisoner in this restaurant you couldn't leave and even when i did leave after we had customers people would come in and say oh is he here and then they'd be oh he's he's gone out to macro or whatever and i'll come back tomorrow yeah i mean and so if i wasn't there to either cook their food because they thought i cooked it better than the staff or to sit and talk with them while there's the same if you own a pub you know if you ever own a pub and you take a day off you'll come in and the till will be empty the next day because most people that come to your pub come because they like you you know and they want to talk to you they want to tell you their problems so if you're not there they don't want to sit on their own drinking i mean so you're just going to earn a lot less money than if you're actually sat there conclusion is if you're thinking of opening a restaurant or any business here just be wary maybe do a little bit more research than i did because i came like i say on a 19 day holiday thinking out and then just didn't go home and at the end of it i'd signed a contract for for a restaurant that maybe i should have thought longer and harder yeah i mean hindsight is 20 20 and you can see the mistakes and i think like the 51 percent handing it over to it to a basically a stranger well it can even be risky with a girlfriend or whatever you know because how many relationships don't work you know i mean you would say the majority maybe i don't know about marriages i don't know what the percentage is these days but certainly pre-marriage most relationships don't work i remember when i first got over to thailand i remember i met this really old guy probably maybe in the 70s from london and he told me he said look the best piece of advice we could ever give you about thailand is don't put into thailand what you can't afford to lose so if you got the money and you got the cash and you can make the investment and you say well i can put in a couple of million bath and if i lose it i lose it so you take a punt right it's like gambling yeah and if you don't gamble what you can afford actually exactly if you can't afford to lose it don't put it in which i did and but look i i obviously regret it because in a way i could have come here and sat by the pool for a year and i just spent less than i did so the last thing because we're losing we're losing all the light now it's going to be dark right so what are your future plans what are you going to do are you going to set up another business or what's your what are you thinking it's it's it's completely up in the air to be honest and i have a small amount of money coming to me from back home because i own half a house in dublin but um the money that comes to me it's not enough so every month i'm spending more than and i don't live a lavish if you sin my youtube channel i don't live a lavish i try and cut corners wherever i can and i don't know i'm open i'm open to doing something and i almost especially in the last couple of months it's not good especially for someone like me because i'm a i think a lot and it's not too good to have too much time on your hands and i tend to end up getting getting down but at the same time i find when i ask people for advice even when i'm super enthusiastic about something they kind of [ __ ] on the idea and so you say oh it could be anything i'm going to greece oh you don't want to go to greece so i was there it was terrible i'm blind don't listen yeah they suck your enthusiasm but this is one of those things there's a lot of them around this is i didn't say it at the start when you asked me why did i leave ireland but one of the things is a lot of the people i was surrounded by of that kind of people trying to drag you down into their pit you know like rather than push you up i had a lot of people around me that were trying to pull you down they didn't want you to be happy because they weren't happy and i was probably like that as well i was a bit of an internet troll and you know like it was until i was happy that i realized like oh my god like i was a very negative person i was not being nice to people and maybe that's just a a reaction but yeah the the people who i would say i turned to very infrequently said go for it most of the time they were like oh i wouldn't go there or what are you doing that for even when i go home now people like oh you're going back to thailand again like are you not sick at a place yet and i'm like man i love it there you know it's great and it's like they can't understand and people don't want to hear my stories you know like almost none of my friends i haven't even bothered to tell them about the youtube channel because i know they won't want to watch they don't want to see people being happy they don't want to see um you know i don't know if it's jealousy i i can't say what it is but they're definitely not i guess you i guess that's because in my lifestyle over here you know we're getting eaten alive when we're having so many absolutely again eating we're losing light now i hope the quality of the video is good i'm going to try and bump up the delight in the edith at the end of this but anyway this man here has a youtube channel called the tirish sun and if there's anyone that deserves to get to a thousand subscribers after a story like this it's this man he makes great content about life on samui so if you're interested and you're gonna come on holiday to thailand you wanna know where you know what what's good on samui this is the guy this is the channel it's called irish sun this is Thairish Times tabloid version of your broad sheet the poor man's version now you make really good stuff and you're really humble there's no bs on what you tell it as you see it you know there's a lot of people that are making youtube videos now and i mean the thing about youtube is you you can make you're the creator so you can make anything look i mean you could i could make a video about how this table is the best table in thailand i mean you can edit it nice you can clean the table all this kind of stuff but you call it as you see it if there's one thing i say i'm not fake like and i don't do the hi you know where you're on the terrorist is it i'm just me and i just tape myself doing whatever i'm doing and um i don't know it might not be for everyone but if you do subscribe please watch as well don't just subscribe beat found me i had like 70 something subscribers when you first commented on my and i was like whoa and i already knew of your channel because i was calling my channel i told you this before i made a logo and everything it was called the irish times and then when i typed it in to see did it pop up your channel i was like oh [ __ ] that's fast i'm gonna have to come up with something i was like okay we'll go with the irish sun because it's hot here and like i say yeah i thought i thought you had it because i thought irish times right and you had irish son i thought you're like doing like the sun newspaper and you were like well that was that was their play on words yeah because you have the irish song yeah exactly the irish song and i just put thai in front of it and just to yeah exactly that's what it was and but also a lot of people hate the sun newspaper so i got rid of that logo just um yeah any liverpool fans are going to have of course and i know a few people from liverpool and they were like that logo man that logo you know yeah anyway look it's been a pleasure and thank you very much again thank you and you're a legend we'll go get a pint let's go we're going for a pint now first time in samui you
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