Yes, you read the title correctly… Do you hate Filipinos? What do you mean, Bob, of course I don’t hate Filipinos! If I hated Filipinos, I probably would never visit this site! Unemployment is high in the USA, and in other Western Countries. In the USA, the official unemployment rate is hovering somewhere around 9.5 […]
Work in the Philippines
Jobs in the Philippines and cherry expat packages
I’m a big fan of using LinkedIn for business purposes. For those not familiar with LinkedIn, it is sort of a professional version of Facebook, where you post items related to your career, rather than personal information. It is for networking, plain and simple. Because of this fact, I leave off family photos and the […]
How young is too young for a maid
I am talking now about employing a younger maid in our household. A lot of them came from the province with little education. They have to work because their parents can’t afford for them to continue their education. Most of them came from a very large family I mean large with 8-10 siblings in the […]
How old is too old for a maid?
I was talking to friends a few months back and one of the topics on our conversation was employing a maid. One of my friends said that he is not comfortable employing a maid that is over 30 years of age because that kind of person is too old to work. I told him ouch, […]
Getting real about jobs in the Philippines
One of the most frequent e-mails I get from people is one that asks me how they can get a job in the Philippines. People want to move here, but they don’t have any money, and they write to me and ask me how hard it would be to find a job here in the […]
Family Outsourcing
A little over a week ago, I wrote an article asking if Outsourcing is exploitation. In the end, I do not believe it is exploitation, and it seems that most, nearly all, readers felt the same way as I did. Of course, we want to always treat our employees in a fair way, and with […]