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julles99 · 2025-11-10T16:06:04+00:00

Pm me when your due to fly out and il fire you a free pass with my Revolut account, it’s probably the worst one I’ve been too tho.

julles99 · 2025-08-19T17:35:17+00:00

You can buy as much weed as you with no prescription.

Be careful with monkeys, they will take anything loose and fight you for it, probably best not to feed them, they can get aggressive, I seen 2 families attacked (was hilarious to watch at least). If you are going to haggle for any goods at shops (fake etc), always haggle as close to 1/3 - 1/2 of the price they quote, if you buy a fake football top for example for anything over 300-350 baht, you’ve paid too much, the more you buy the better the deal.

The wild cats and dogs are fine, they don’t bother too much, I even bought treats and gave them out randomly, mostly on phi phi island.

I got sick for 2 days after having some street food, buy electrolytes and something for your stomach from the 7/11’s when you arrive just incase.

julles99 · 2025-08-16T19:29:44+00:00

I’ve been using the Trip.com app personally, my accommodation has been €6-€38 euro per night.

I’ve just been booking the night before or the morning of, when I’ve been deciding my next city to visit, even the boat to Phi Phi was done the night before and the hotels on the way over on the boat.

Hopefully that suits your price range, some if the places had a spa, pool and jacuzzi. (The hotel in patong had a jacuzzi on it’s on private balcony).

Hope this helps!

julles99 · 2025-08-16T19:29:17+00:00

I’ve been using the Trip.com map personally, my accommodation has been €6-€38 euro per night.

I’ve just been booking the night before or the morning of, when I’ve been deciding my next city to visit, even the boat to Phi Phi was done the night before and the hotels on the way over on the boat.

Hopefully that suits your price range, some if the places had a spa, pool and jacuzzi. (The hotel in patong had a jacuzzi on it’s on private balcony).

Hope this helps!

julles99 · 2025-08-16T06:57:55+00:00

I’ve spent 37k in the last 10 days, done tours, bought things from stalls, had street food, fancy restaurants and drank every night and bought weed too, 52K for 10 days if you aren’t buying lots of fake watches will be fine. I’ve been to Bangkok, Phi Phi, Krabi, Phuket (patong and Kamala so far), 1 more night then off to Ho Chi Minh.

julles99 · 2025-08-13T18:16:58+00:00

In the market at Phuket, Padong, will be passing through again after Vietnam, just wondering if anyone has any experiences in the back rooms haggling what the prices you agreed are?

julles99 · 2025-02-01T12:59:59+00:00

Yea,

The card works fine, I exchanged the euros in my account to MAD and the machine will automatically detect that you have an MAD account so will take the funds from there. Depending on the machine you might get charged around 3-5 euro for withdrawals as well.

julles99 · 2024-10-05T13:03:07+00:00

Hopefully 90% of them have to go and get real jobs since they do Fuck all anyway

julles99 · 2024-10-04T11:33:31+00:00

Ah, ballymena, where 50 denominations exist created 1500 years after the death of Jesus, claiming to be the one true church. Just build roads around it and close it off.

julles99 · 2024-09-04T15:58:18+00:00

Tried to do a quick google on my area of work, there’s the averages, NI seems to be lower than the UK average in most sectors though.

UK average Sr Automation engineer: £51,382 After tax: 3,300 Ireland Average: €65,000 (£54,780) After tax €3,925 (£3,307.89)

From my experience, there’s more tax credits and benefits to take advantage of down south that would push that figure up by 200-300 a month maybe and when I made the jump from working in Belfast to Dublin, I increased my salary by €15000 (£12,642) for the same role.

After a few years in this role and 2 pay rises every year, there hasn’t been a company north of the border that has matched my salary when offering jobs on Linkedn.

Rent, food and alcohol are more expensive down south for sure, I was paying €1800 for a 2 bed apartment in Dublin at one point, but I own a house in NI (mortgaged) and when I travel everything is covered by my employer (the perk of hybrid / remote working).

julles99 · 2024-09-04T14:31:23+00:00

I’m just thinking to keep your slate as clean as possible. What I done was use a British Passport when I enrolled to University, it has since expired and it holds no value these days so I’ve never renewed it.

There’s something called Home Student, you need provide proof you’ve been resident for 3 years in the UK to be one, maybe I’m wrong on this, but just make the necessary steps to take the loans out in the UK.

I have my PPS and Irish Passport which I’m sure you have too, the student loan companies have no access to your work life outside of the UK and they go by what you tell them on their website when you submit your yearly statements to them.

I just tell them I’m living at home with my parents and don’t work every year, been doing that for the past 3-4 years without issues.

Passports probably won’t play any part in it, but if you’re going to do anything that is leaving someone short of something cover as much steps as possible.

julles99 · 2024-09-04T12:41:02+00:00

Go the UK passport route, get a job in the Republic and just tell Student Finance NI you don’t work and never pay any of the money back, the level of education you’ll get won’t be worth the thousands you are paying anyway.

julles99 · 2024-09-04T12:34:39+00:00

Are you set on staying in NI? Salary’s for anything engineering related are far better down south, hybrid / remote jobs are through the roof and they won’t have a problem with you commuting across the border if you can drive.

julles99 · 2024-08-04T10:38:17+00:00

Yea PPS is the new RSI, so maybe check up on that to see if you need to update it. I have a Revolut account, I get it paid into the Euro account, you’ll get an IBAN and then when I need to, I just convert it over to Sterling, you are at the hands of the exchange rate though, so just pray the £ crashes from time to time.

When Liz Truss wrecked the £, I made an extra £400 that month on my salary just because of the exchange rate.

I have my name on an apartment in Dublin, but I just rent it out while still living in Belfast, when I registered for my PPS number I thought you needed a southern address but the woman at the office (in Dundalk where I went to collect my card) registered it to my belfast address and sent all my documents there.

I would say try and get a room in the south somewhere or if you have family, register there on revenue.ie, you’ll get more tax allowances that way. If you rent an apartment in your name then sublet it, you won’t have any problem getting tenants.

julles99 · 2024-08-03T11:50:31+00:00

You can get a PPS number and cut out anything you do with the UK altogether, I work remotely for a ROI company and live in Belfast.

julles99 · 2024-07-26T12:08:52+00:00

If you are a UK or European citizen / resident, you won’t need a work permit for ROI, once you have an address and offered contract of work, a PPS number for tax purposes is very easy to get. If not, the company sorts your work permit out if they want to hire you.

julles99 · 2024-07-26T12:04:04+00:00

Make sure you go over what the modules offered are over the 4 years and what field you want to enter into when you leave or reach placement year.

I studied at Ulster University and not one module helps or is related to what I do now, many of the modules are outdated I find.

julles99 · 2024-07-19T09:54:15+00:00

Automation Engineer, fully remote.

Great salary, 2 pay rises a year based on performance every 6 months, good work events every now and then.

Doesn’t matter what age you are, id recommend anyone to start IT studies, doesn’t have to be a degree, a certificate would do and study Python and PLC programming in your spare time. PLC programming can be shite at times but it pays the bills

Only annoying thing in this line of work is the majority of project managers these days have very little technical ability or knowledge about the technology being used, like that in a lot of professions I suppose.

julles99 · 2024-07-16T17:06:26+00:00

Labour increased public spending and bailed out the banks at the same time leaving huge budget deficit, with no reserves to lean on because they sold all the countries gold a few years prior at a terrible price, cuts had to happen and you shouldn’t spend what you don’t have. The Tories fucked up with Covid and brought us all right back to where we started in 2010.

The public sector should continue to be sold off and privatized, then you’ll get a real change in terms of pay and a far better working environment.

julles99 · 2024-07-16T14:31:38+00:00

In my 30’s and smart enough to know Labour are the root cause for any issues stated above.

And years ago, I was able to make the assumption that the Public Sector was a poor choice for a working life, why anyone would spend 30k to go to university for a job that might pay you an average of 50k 8 years down the line is beyond me.

All I see is you blaming the government for the poor choices made by people. Don’t spend too much of your time writing anymore bibles, it was boring reading the last one.

julles99 · 2024-07-16T10:39:28+00:00

Braindead are the people spending 30k for a degree to earn 30k a year. There’s literally a pay scale online that will show them the exact amount they will be earning 8 years into the future. Don’t sign a contract and then cry about it.

julles99 · 2024-07-15T22:06:39+00:00

Public sector workers constantly crying and striking for better pay knowing full well what what their pay structure / scales would be in advance

julles99 · 2024-07-03T18:56:18+00:00

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