Lost
2017 October Update of my life, me, Joey Arnold Oatmeal. Was born 1985 in Oregon of the United States (USA). Moved to Vietnam in 2012, five years ago. I came to Vietnam to teach English and I did that.
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Currently, I'm living and surviving in Saigon, HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, TP.HCMC, VN, Vietnam, right now, still, but I am not really working and I am not really doing anything at all. Right now, I am not sure what to do, where to go, and everything. I feel alone, abandoned, forgotten, useless, ineffective, failed, lost, broken, dead, and more.
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I do not have a job or place. I am not earning money. I am not making cash. I am spending a lot of money each day. I am on the path towards destruction.
2017-10-03 TUESDAY 1 PM MDNH JOEYARNOLDVN
http://Twitter.com/JoeyArnoldVN
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Was working as a freelance English Teacher in Vietnam, since 2012, at schools, centers, stores, shops, cafes, parks, houses, for people, kids, adults, students, doctors, architects, designers, actors, lawyers, and all kinds of people. I have taught privately as a tutor, one on one, that is one student per class, and I have taught smaller classes of a few students and some bigger classes of over 30 students per class and I have taught them everything, anything related to English conversation, grammar, pronunciation, IELTS, TOEIC, TEFL, ESL, careers, life, philosophy, religion, business, history, economics, marketing, technology, science, medicine, travel, culture, politics, education, entertainment, family, and more. In my life, I've had many jobs, & then taught in Vietnam. This year, I had mostly just one Vietnamese English student and was making around $200 USD per month or less in 2017, that is this year, and I spend more than I sometimes spend more money than I make sometimes or many times and have been losing money and my one and only student maybe stopped our class today via Facebook maybe which means no more income at all. So, now, I am thinking about what kind of other jobs I may or may not want to have and which countries and places I may want to live in. I wrote about this before and I think about pros and cons and many things about the good and the bad aspects and advantages and disadvantages between different countries and jobs, career, occupations, work, duties, missions, goals, agendas, and so on and I contrast that with politics and more. All of this is very complex and I want to write more about this and I have wrote a lot about this in the past for years and years now. I can talk all day about this thing.
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What to do and how and where and when to do what I do is the question. Most of what I do is write and talk. I make videos. I learn and share my life and everything online everywhere but am not paid at all or enough for what I spend most of my time doing. I could go anywhere and do anything if money was not an issue but it i an issue and I have a part of a Bitcoin and I got some cash maybe less than $1K USD total and that is it. I got to just continue to talk and think. I think about living in the USA mostly. I want to live everywhere. I want to live in the USA and Vietnam and other places all at the same time. I am trying to figure out my priorities and my demand or lack thereof. I will continue writing about this later. I got a lot more to say about this. Feel free to comment, always.
It can be hard to admit when your down, but each time you're there it's for a reason. You just earned money by being open & honest with yourself. As an expat if you want to stay, cash can be minimal as you know. There are lots of expat opportunities in Cambodia, I spent half the year there last year. Might be worth thinking about if you want to stay in SE Asia. Keep your head up, focus on the good you have been doing, you don't have to have the next step to just do something, list 5 things you like to do and find a way to earn at 1 of them and then eventually all 5! Good luck, try to stay positive it's the easiest way to open a new door!
I visited Cambodia during 2 visa runs. Some, like you, recommend going there while others don't. I've felt Vietnam would be better & some agree. I'm not exactly sure the future of Asia but the USA is better. I am trying to keep my head up.