Hi Steemit! I am Mint. A girl from Thailand (New in crypto-currencies but already addicted), reconverted from stock market to massage therapist. (Or how about a 20 000$ salary to a 600$ / month salary).

in #introduceyourself8 years ago (edited)

“ No legacy is so rich as honesty. “
William Sakespeare

This deep experience helped to built myself and I would like to share it with you as introduction of myself

Money rules the world. People runs after money.

I am not an exception.

I often ran for money but did it used to provide me happiness?

Thailand is a hot and nice country, famous for the non-stressed-at-all and relaxed people who used to populate it. Famous also for a traditional must-behave-good of people and their honesty (You can lose your wallet in any restaurant, bus or boat here, be sure you’ll find it back days after...)

It easy to learn that money provide you freedom. And like a junky before to get addicted, this few first time of getting money in too high amount, like a drug flash, give you a vision of your potential new power and possibility. In one word: freedom.

It’s why it can be hard to see but can make you believe wrongly that freedom depends of money. And one day you are slave of this flash of freedom and go under the state of human.


All started from love

I actually didn’t know yet what I wanted to study in University and just wanted my parents to be proud of me. I choose Economics, because it was a good answer to the proud-parent question but mostly, I have to admit, Because university was located in the same city where my ex-boyfriend lived…

After graduated, I got my first job as stock broker

This job used to make me feel like in an Olympic game:

  • To slalom between cars in the morning with some crazy well-known motorbike taxi driver to get work.
  • Freestyle Greco-Roman with clients before they transfer high amount to companyin pursuit of their hope of greediness.
  • Boxing with my boss to extort him higher commission.
  • Synchronised swimming with my alcoholic-colleagues from work, when late at night, almost every day, we cheered-up umpteenth shot.
  • Before Sailing full sail to some next crazy club...

Life-style it brings me was simply amazing. Because I loved to play with Risk, I loved this job. You can lose or win in every minute, but when you work as broker, you win all the time ;)

It was so fun for me! I used to make crazy amount. At 24 years old only, I reached nearly one million (in Thai Bath yeah, but it’s still represent around $25,000). I spent my money on whatever I wished. Bought the trip to Hong Kong for lunch with my family on the weekend, buy expensive LV handbag For my friend's birthday, or diamond rings for my mother.

And as far as I know, when a lot of money is involved in a sale, arguments are rarely completely honest. And what a gold medals worth, if you kind of stole it?

A proverb from our country say something like: “you can’t be in good health, when you eat the food bought with money you got from dishonestly way”

Sometimes the company, which included rich group of clients, used to generate high profit, from dishonest way.

Sometimes, when our company use to detains investment in a lot of shares already highly profitable. We use to tell EVERYONE, especially people from other agency, to buy that share and made them believe it will growth up.

In Fact, when we tell people to buy at that point. It meant that we wanted to sell.

Graphics analytics was created for that. Having a range of a hundred tools and indicators, created by mathematics expert, and named with scientist words, like Fibonacci retracement, Intraday Momentum Index, Williams Accumulation Distribution type 1, japan candlestick indicator and many others which you will surely find to support your sale arguments in your favour.

Did you already see a wine amateur, choosing a bottle of wine to a specialist?

Look how easily he could acquiesce to anything from the expert since his little knowledge is teased. Be sure he will go out from the wine shop, happy and proud, with few bottles more than expected. You will might even have the same expert’s recited-discourse if you are with this person when he will open a bottle. But the fact is, it could be the worst wine ever, he would never noticed. At least till he spend the next day in the toilet.

Then you got me.

We sold when lots of peoples started to buy at high price, while we earned highest profit!

That kind of action made people lose a lot of money.

Well, at that times, even if I used to care more about the next Burberry’s high heel I planned to buy, I started to feel down and not really happy. I repeated myself they were all fortunate anyway. But somewhere inside, I knew I was a bitch…

I clearly realised that during economic crisis in 2008. Most of our customers, even for some which started to doubt about advice of our company, believed that the market might rebound. But as you know, it was not.

And they lose more and more money.

And while me and my colleague, were still getting high commission from transaction anyway, I had to face some terrible testimonials.

I felt so down and bad for them this day. And as seems as it wasn’t enough, I learnt that my mother died. That news shock me enough to make me completely out of my mind, and before come back at home a car crashes the end of mine at red light. Not a big deal, I and the other driver had barely injured, but enough to realised that I needed to make a break. I quit my job and take the next plane to join my family in the northern of Thailand.

It was the worst day of my life. But now I can say that consequences of this day was finally so profitable.

New life and new vision is coming ! How ?

I deeply discovered it after decided with my boyfriend to study thai massage together for our romance relationship. It was just for fun at beginning, but after few months I realized I love to connect with people by healing touch. I kept study massage and I get promoted to be Thai yoga massage teacher.

What's a life! I had been teaching over 7 years now and have more than 700 students around the world! I got less money than I used to get in past, only 20000 B a month ($600) but it has the benefit to make me live in a more peaceful and relaxing way.

I still get comfortably saving from my past job and having more times to keep traveling and been hang out with so interesting people from many country.

And the good things, when you are teacher, during week seminaries, is you just show the way to students, and you are massaged the rest of the day ;)

My vision is more open ! most of friends i have been hang out with are the Yogi and western peoples around the world .Do u know what, english language that i hate the most when i was young ,I use it the most when i getting old now,

Get Improve

I was bored about teaching thai yoga massage. So I decided to changed the job again but still be in the same career such as Spa therapist to improve my knowledge. I had been learning lot of kind of massage in luxury spa in Koh Samui until now.

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."
Richard M. DeVos

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Hi there, I live in Thailand too now, i also don't make nearly as much money as I used to but am far happier, and being happy is what is important, as you need to be happy to be of any use to anyone else...

Great post. I love Thailand I have visited there a few times, and always had a great time. Great people yummy food beautiful beaches, and amazing elephant camps and Temples:). Welcome to steemit:)

HI ,Cryptoiskey. Thank you so much for warm welcome :D Hope my country will make you enjoyable and be happy :D

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