Monday is usually a quiet day in Bangkok. Street vendors are not permitted to setup on Mondays for some reason. I am not sure why, but I think it is to give businesses a chance to have their curb free one day a week.
Tacky dropped by for a visit with Thavorn last night and over a couple of pints of Heineken and a few glasses of wine she talked about her future. Tacky turns 29 next weekend and is getting tired of working in bars. At the same time, she is hooked on the money and has refused some farang requests to 'look after' her to the tune of 30,000 Bhat a month. One must remember that a university graduate in Bangkok makes 20,000 Baht a month and therefore 30,000 Baht a month and having to do nothing looks good to me.
However, and this is a big however, I do not have the extended Thai family calling me, looking for money. Tacky has 2 kids, and a sick father to look after. At the same time, she can't work a bar for ever as she ages, she will earn less and less, despite being lots of fun! The downside of staying with a farang, who is willing to look after you is that he may very well turn you in for a new model after 5 years and then you are back in the bar, 5 years older, with diminishing returns.
The life of a Thai bar girl is not an easy life and often does not end pretty. Very few of them put away money from their monthly earnings of 50,000 Bhat for later on in life. It gets siphoned off to relatives, cosmetic surgery, and drinking and partying. If I wrote a book on their lifestyle I would call it fast, furious, and short.
How would I change things in Thailand.? First off, grade 10 and 11 cost money and most lo-so families can not pay it, so many Thais have only a grade 10 education. That has to go! The Thai educational system is also ranked very poorly.
http://investvine.com/thailand-stunned-by-poor-education-ranking/
The only other solution I see is Bernie Sanders, but here in Thailand, that is never going to happen :-)
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