This morning, Thursday, my day off, I went to Starbucks for coffee, their cranberry and orange scone and to work on this article. Just as I booted my laptop, I struck a conversation with a lady at the next table. She was from northern Nevada and was here on business. While talking of our life’s [...]
If you follow this site from the conception, I was only 54 years old when I moved here. I was a Project Manager in the residential architecture field. When the financial crisis started, the fist affected was the housing industry and then the home loan industry.
At that time, I had filed for Elena’s Fiancée [...]
Last September I wrote an article about us hiring a Domestic Helper. As I wrote, she was 17 at the time we hired her. There were people who say not to hire someone so young and others who had trouble with all age groups.
If you hire a girl in her 20’s you can run [...]
I have been asked by some readers to discuss the income classes (levels) in the Philippines. This is more difficult to classify since I am not an economist and have access to the incomes of the populace.
As I wrote previously, Filipinos need fewer comforts as most foreigners are accustomed to needing. Just as Americans [...]
What I would like to discuss here is the employment outlook for Filipinos and how hard it is to support a family. Most times when I am out, I enjoy talking to Filipinos. Because of this and my open friendly manor I have gotten to know many and about their lives.I ask questions such as [...]
First, what does OFW stand for? Well I thought it stood for Overseas Foreign Worker, but from some research on Wikipedia, they show OFW stands for Overseas Filipino Worker. This group is people with Citizenship of the Philippines and lives and or work in a foreign country.
According to Wikipedia there are about 11 million [...]
Here in the Philippines, if you are out and around town you meet Filipinos at different employment levels. Most you meet are clerks, waiters and support staff. Then as you get to meet and talk to people you get to know more from all walks of life. Some are just comfortable with their lives and [...]
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I have written a little about my past and for two years I have written about my life living here in Davao City in the Philippines. I am not going to bore you with stories of my childhood but feel like telling about how my life brought me here. In my younger years and with [...]
With my article about our domestic helper and then in the article “At yours Service” I mentioned about our helper and about the three girls Elena’s sister-in-law brought to Davao for friends of hers needing help at home.
Our helper is working out better than I expected. She works hard, is friendly and sociable and [...]
With our 2 oldest nieces in review school for their board exams in nursing and our youngest niece in 3rd year of nursing school, Elena decided to hire a maid or helper to assist her with taking care of the house.
In America, if you need assistance with the house cleaning, most average families hire [...]
As we all here on the news and from friends and relatives, unemployment has reached one of the highest levels for many years. I was a victim at the beginning of the financial crisis back in 2007. There was so much new housing and as their prices increased, it raised the levels of the resale [...]
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Many foreigners move to the Philippines for different reasons. Most are men and most are in retirement age. Maybe you just got tired of life and stress in your home country. To move here you must have some savings or pension to support yourself and your possible new wife if you’re single. Maybe you know [...]
Continue reading about Working in the Philippines if you’re a Foreigner
What do I mean “life is different”; well there are many things that are different. There are some similar things but overall, even the similar things have a different twist to them. The best I can use to describe is things are 180 degrees opposite than life in America.
Family dynamics are so different. In [...]
Continue reading about How life is different living in the Philippines (Family Dynamics)
I was originally to start writing how some people find ways to make an income but Wildcat left me a comment with a very moving link to a video.
This video showed how someone goes to restaurants to get their food wastes to bring to his family and poor neighbors.
All over Davao and I [...]
In the first part I mentioned about the lower end housing. This is the people that have some trade or job. Their houses are small with little extras. It is true they do have concrete walls and a roof over their head. They rent or own their home and lot.
There are people that are [...]
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