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Why India is the perfect travel destination
Why India is the perfect travel destination
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Why India is the perfect travel destination
Why India is the perfect travel destination

Travel is different. They can be with a clearly planned route and money, spread out in envelopes: "for food", "for entertainment", "housing", "NZ" and so on. They can be just mattress ones - for lovers of the All Inclusive system. Or they can be completely free and unpredictable. Few decide on the latter, because if you have everything planned out, all the ways for retreat are thought out and in the envelope “for tomorrow” there is a sum that warms the pocket and the soul, rests much more calmly. But thanks to the dreamers who hitchhike thousands of kilometers with little or no money, other people learn how not to die of hunger in different countries. Such dreamers include my friend, who went to India with a well-calculated number of envelopes and … a light wind in her head. She found a job absolutely by accident, and she liked it. She shared her experience with me, and I pass it on.

Comparing my friend's experience with what I heard while in Thailand, India is simply a blessed country. There you can find a job that will not only cover all the daily expenses, but also allow you to save some money. In Thailand, only local people can work offline, but farangs (as the locals call foreigners) can get in the face for this or make themselves problems in the form of a showdown with the local police or the mafia. And even if you have opened your own restaurant, then Thais should work there.

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In India, it is much easier to solve the problem of temporary employment, which will make it possible to earn "daily bread" and additional gingerbread. If you find yourself in a difficult situation or you are just wondering (how it was with my friend), do not hesitate to ask new acquaintances about where you can find work. There are usually quite a few agents among them who are hiring people to work in promotions for shops, bars and nightclubs, as well as extras in advertisements and Bollywood films! Or you can go to the ogoa.ru forum and choose a job you like. Usually the agent asks for a photo and specifies the age in order to understand where you can be accommodated and how much to rip off for the fact that "this white will be in a film or commercial."

So, the first rule - do not hesitate to ask new acquaintances about work or go to the ogoa.ru forum.

Video and photography

What can an agent offer in case of participating in the filming of a video? It turns out that in Bollywood movies, Indian advertisements and music videos, the more non-Indians, the cooler, which is why foreigners are popular. The minimum wage per day is $ 20. Close-ups, replica and swimwear (shorts or swimsuit tops) will bring you $ 50- $ 70. For night filming, the minimum prices are higher - $ 50, and if they take place in a neighboring state, then the fee will be even higher. In this case, you will be taken to the location of the shooting, fed with breakfast and lunch, provided with an unlimited amount of water and tea, and taken back. And if you successfully hide in some secluded corner to take a nap, and no one finds you, then you can sleep like this all day, and in the evening you still get your money. Sometimes participation in the shooting is limited to simply standing in the frame or running with wild screams for 20 minutes during the entire shooting day.

The minimum wage per day is $ 20. Close-ups, replica and swimwear (shorts or swimsuit top) will bring you $ 50- $ 70. For night filming, the minimum prices are higher - $ 50, and if they take place in a neighboring state, then the fee will be even higher.

Filming usually ends by 6 pm as it gets dark. If you are asked to stay, you have every right to refuse or demand the night rate.

In general, the filming process itself is quite interesting. Hindus are very slow, and you simply will not have time to get particularly tired during the shooting day. First, they arrive at the place and begin to arrange the equipment, then they serve breakfast and everyone has a meal. Breakfast usually includes toast and rolls with butter and jam, some sweet bean porridge and boiled eggs. Set lunch - tali - includes boiled rice with several gravy to choose from (there are both vegetable and meat), raitu (a dish of yoghurt with vegetables or fruits) and roti cakes or chapatis Chapati - bread made from wheat flour, like thin lavash … … As a result, breakfast can take 2 hours. It's the same with lunch, so in the end the shooting day is 5 hours, of which you can work only 10-20 minutes.

Participation in promotions

This job is less enjoyable than filming. They don't pay much for distributing leaflets, but for one day of advertising goods in a store, you can get at least $ 50-60. You will need to work for about 8 hours (from 12 noon to 8-9 pm). A friend worked for an ad for elite Russian vodka ($ 50 per bottle). At the same time, it is important to speak good English in order to explain why this vodka is worth the money. That is, you just sit on a chair near the stand with the advertised product, treat those who wish and sing praises to the product. Naturally, it is allowed to go out for a smoke break and to the toilet. Wealthy Hindus buy such goods eagerly, without wasting time on thought.

Extras for nightclubs and bars

The situation with nightclubs and bars is similar to shooting: the more white girls, the cooler the establishment. But this does not mean at all that you have to provide escort services! You will simply be the "decoration" of the club. All you have to do is go there and hang out with free cocktails. If you decide to get to know someone, it is solely of your own free will. Very often, girls come to the club with friends and spend the whole night there as ordinary clients of the institution. Only here the girl does not pay for the entrance or for cocktails, and her friends pay for everything as it should be. The work schedule is from 12 am to 4–5 am daily. Payment for services - $ 1000-1500 per month.

Night market trading

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In the evenings, by sunset, hippies come to the beach in Arambol and organize a kind of market. There they can resell what they bought in Bombay or Thailand, sell jewelry and handmade things, tea, coffee, homemade cookies and raw food sweets. Someone draws a henna tattoo, someone shows a fire show or twists a hula hoop. In general, everyone does what they are capable of.

One couple regularly visits Bangkok and buys things in bulk there, and then sells them in the market, since things from Thailand are much better quality than local ones. True, they have to pay for a place in the market. But the hippies who sit with their own lamps on the beach and sell handicrafts do not pay anything for it - where they sit, there is his place.

And the last option: you can also become an agent and engage in the selection of people for filming or earn money from renting houses for foreigners, having previously agreed about this with the owner of the house.

All of these methods fully cover the vital costs, are tested by real people and allow you to stay afloat until the moment when help arrives in the form of a money transfer from relatives. An average house costs $ 250, food is quite cheap, so the main thing is not to be shy, and you will definitely not be lost there;)

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