Hi Im a Musician from Toronto Canada who is Tripping out through Asia with the goal of leading a more creative and meaningful life. I create and record all my own backround music for the channel and sometimes play a diddy or two in each video, as well as crack a few dad jokes along the way.
Come along with me on my journey through Thailand and Cambodia. I will tour hotels, try all sorts of food and show you what local life is like. As well as the costs associated, and any tips I pick up along the way.
Lots of videos to come, so please subscribe. If we can get this channel monetized i can start giving it back to the local communities and I will also eat a tarantula.
@@phlezktravels it’s with AVSE TESOL - the course director is Peter. “Peter@avse.edu.vn” and the website is www.avse.edu.vn Let them know u saw it from Tom trips Out. Facebook is prob the best place to look for these opportunities
@@demad9599 I taught full time in person for almost 2 years, but now I teach part time online. - I use the rest of my time for RU-vid, and I play bass in 3 bands and I do solo songwriting stuff too
@@TomTripsOut Nice, I was just wondering if you teach online could you still get a work visa? Or does it have to be from a school in Cambodia that will allow you to work remote?
@@demad9599 well I’m in Cambodia 🇰🇭 - but yea that’s a good question. Yes I work for a school in Cambodia that allows me to work online. So I can use them for the permit and visa. If you work for a country from somewhere else you’d have to make yourself self employed and you can provide your own employment letter. I haven’t done that so I don’t know much about it. But you probably just have to register yourself as a small business, so you have an ID number and documents like an employer. Prob have to pay taxes. Also another option, is to ask the visa agent how much it costs if you don’t have the documents, and they’ll take care of it for extra money. That is shady and not recommended, but from what I hear it happens more than u think
@@TomTripsOut Sorry, I meant to say Cambodia, I was just watching a video on Thailand and that's why I made that mistake. Thanks for the feedback though. I'm saving up and plan to teach one day in Cambodia. I just want to find a way to make another source of online income before I make that move. Great content btw. How often do you live stream?
@@demad9599 I’m doing one this evening at like 6pm my time. I’d say like twice a week maybe more. And I have a members section where I go live every day for members
What about helping people in need with solar, water filtration, sanitation, teaching modern gardening techniques? Is there someone you would suggest talking to or working with to make the money stretch further?
@@808talofa8 I think I bought an exit ticket to Thailand for like $100 that I was able to cancel. Everything was different and weird when I came in. It was Covid times.
It was funny that the Foreigners call Toul Tompong “The Russian market”. When I Visited Cambodia and asked the locals where is the “Russian market”. They had no clue what I was talking about. They know only “Toul Tompong” and vice versa if I ask the foreigners where is “Toul Tompong”. They had no clue. First I thought there are two different markets “Toul Tompong” and “ The Russian market “ 😂
It’s Crazy how cheap it is. In the America, a bowl of soup is $18 plus 18% tip and 10% tax. $3.90 here in the U.S, you can’t even get a small cup of coffee.
@@happy4ever305 yea there’s no tax added or tip here. It’s all in that original price. - tipping is not in the culture here. You can if you want, but they are not expecting it. I could get a nice beef rice noodle soup for $1.50 - and when you use delivery apps there’s no service fees or tipping either. Usually just like .20 to .60 cents delivery. Or free if it’s close by
@@808talofa8 mostly using Facebook as a search engine. And when you ask to view one the real estate representative will show it to you plus like 5 other similar ones in the area. There’s also online classifieds on khmer24
Nice apartment, Cheap ($350) and convenient. When you rent an apartment in Cambodia, it comes with furniture, tv, bed (everything). Is that right, Tom?
Nice apartment. Where is the Russian market in relation to the palace and riverside? I'm most familiar with the palace area and use that as my point of reference.
@@ahmedgondo9512 every school is different. But most common is once a month. Your first job w no experience you will most likely make 11-$1300 a month.
@@ahmedgondo9512 very unlikely here. I’m not sure what a university level teacher makes. So possibly that’s something. BUT - the real answer is do Vietnam. You need a degree to work there and they’ll pay you accordingly. I would guess like 2.5k to start. AVSE also covers Vietnam with all the same programs. This pay scale is all based on what I’ve heard from friends. Bottom line is you can get more money for all your credentials if you worked in Vietnam. You could reach out to PETER from AVSE. And tell him your credentials and what you’d like to earn and see what he says. He’s the course director and has like a decade of experience with this. “Peter@avse.edu.vn” let him know I gave you the contact
Some of those dishes def look familiar! Maybe I can find a Cambodian restauarbt in Taiwan and do a flip of the video ;-). actually still busy trying to get videos of our first trip to Thailand posted. hard to find time to edit until I can cut back on work hours. the grind is real!
Hey Tom, before you left Canada to do your TESOL course and work in Cambodia what documents did you prepare? Should you get a criminal record check in home country? Any other documents? And do they have to be notarized or certified or anything like that? Since I'm Canadian as well I'm hoping your answers are going to be directly applicable to me. Thanks!! 👍
Yea when you get in touch with AVSE they help guide you through all of that including the visa process. Get the criminal record check in home country. I got a criminal record check but I didn’t get it notarized, I just brought the original. It was stamped when i got it. I don’t have any degrees so I didn’t have those documents. They say you should get your degrees notarized. If you work in Vietnam they need to be, and it’s more of a pain to do it there.
@@godsprincess3327 find me on FB or Insta and you can msg me directly. Or the director of the AVSE course is Peter. You could tell him I referred you and you have some questions- “Peter@avse.edu.vn”
After seeing the driving skills in Phnom Penh I'm not surprised the van busted a tire by hitting the curb. 🤣🤣 Any idea how difficult it is for Americans to open a bank idea in Cambodia? It's my understanding that most foreign banks don't want to deal with the hassle of American bank accounts due to the regulative hoops they have to jump through imposed by US government banking regulations, such as FATCA.
@@MMPlaneSpotting-su3ns a “bank idea”? I dunno what that is. Bank accounts you can open but I think you need a long term visa and an apartment lease. -- you cannot get one while staying in a hotel on a tourist visa
@@TomTripsOut Ha Ha, typo, meant bank account. Thanks for the info. BTW, do you have a favorite music store there, I've been to a couple but I don't recall the names.
@@MMPlaneSpotting-su3ns no favorite but I’ll name a few - Madison, Hope music, Cheang Sim music center, - if you search using FB as your search engine you will have more luck.
We’ll done. I know you have done some RU-vid’s on apartment hunting. Could you do a more intense one of how to find apartments on your own, but not these high rise apartments. Tired of seeing high rise apartments. Want to see more of the real side to Phnom Penh. We won’t hav3 a big budget when we go over there and we want to live economically.
yes you can - But you don't need to because they use USD as their currency here. lol. - They also have their own called Riel. Both are accepted everywhere. After you get a bank account you could deposit your money in there, and pay for everything from scanning a QR code with your phone banking app. that's what I do. then you never deal with cash. Even the ATMs here dispense USD when you take money out. its a Dual currency country
