You might ask what Anniversary. It is not of my marriage to Elena, which will be this summer; it is my second anniversary living here in the Philippines. On December 6, 2007, I walked off the plan in Davao and started my new life.
Now, you will be thinking, what changes have occurred, well many? [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Jobs and Self Improvement in the Philippines
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
As we all know, the Philippines is over populated and there is high unemployment. Then also you have the problem where employers use the system to pay as little as possible.
In the Philippines, if you have less than 10 employees or contract employees that work for less than 6 months, the labor laws and [...]
Continue reading about Poverty and Survival in the Philippines
Last week a friend of mine called me for an interesting proposition. He is involved and soon to be a partner with an Architectural and Engineering Firm here in Davao.They are in need of someone to help get some drafting for about a month. The pay is not much but it gets my foot in [...]
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