#2533 - Failure Friday: Working Remotely from Thailand Is Stressful!
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a software engineer who takes advantage of his company’s flexible remote work policy to move to Thailand—but struggles in adapting to working in the middle of the night.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE are the perfect partner for your smartphone. |
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| 0:11.0 | unwanted background noise. |
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| 0:19.1 | that make changing settings a breeze. |
| 0:21.5 | That's a lot to love for just 99 pounds rarp. The new Galaxy Bud Zefi |
| 0:27.2 | buy now at Samsung.com. Did you know that working remotely from Thailand can be pretty stressful? |
| 0:45.0 | Actually, it's not the most amazing thing to go and move to Thailand or wherever it could be, |
| 0:50.0 | could be Bali somewhere else, wherever you imagine the digital nomad hotspot a great |
| 0:56.0 | place to go and work remotely, build your business, or work for an employer as we're going |
| 1:00.9 | to hear about here in this story. Sometimes it's actually |
| 1:03.0 | difficult because you have to coordinate with people back on your time zone. You |
| 1:07.2 | have to deal with the effects and hazards of being in a faraway location, even if it seems like that shouldn't matter. |
| 1:15.6 | You know, that's what we're going to hear about here today. |
| 1:17.6 | Like it seems like everybody's working remotely, why does it matter, you know, where you are actually |
| 1:22.0 | located, but sometimes it does, right? |
| 1:24.3 | That's the long story short. |
| 1:25.9 | So let's hear about it more in this story and welcome to Cylesl School. |
| 1:29.1 | My name is Chris Gillibou. |
| 1:30.1 | Today's feature Failure Friday, a collection of short stories about mistakes |
| 1:33.9 | missteps disasters all of the things that don't go so well all the things that go |
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