Comments on: Why I’m a Filipino Who Won’t Go Abroad

By: ice

ice — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:52:59 +0000

hi,I'm already 23 and my family wants me to work abroad. I'm not sure if it is a good idea but I don't want to disappoint them. I also want to make a difference here in the Philippines but I don't know where to start. My parents are expecting a lot from me financially in the future.I'm in dilemma, what if they are right and I'm wrong. I want the Philippines to become a better country so Filipinos don't have to go abroad. I'm thinking we can do better than working abroad.

By: AZI AGUILAR

AZI AGUILAR — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:55:56 +0000

hello im glad i have found this website, i have a debate about this topic in my philosphy class and it helps me to defend why i am not into Filipinos going abroad.

By: Dan Cabana

Dan Cabana — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:03:17 +0000

Hi!
Just got interested in the topics where you have some posts in income-tacts.com.

I also have the same feeling as yours about staying in the Philippines until I expire. I am 45 years old and have been an employee for 20+ years. It’s only these past 2 years that I really decided to make things work without employment and without having to desire going abroad.

A lot of my friends that have gone to other countries for that proverbial greener pasture. We’ll it’s good that they cannot just uproot everybody and they somewhat remit to the Philippines that’s driving our peso a little stronger. If there’s a drain then there’s rain for all of us who will stick to contributing to the Philippine economy.

I am still seeing a lot of opportunities here.

Great site and blog!

By: tarits

tarits — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:53:57 +0000

wow! I’m glad to see anther filipino personal finance blog. keep it up.

By: Alphonse Tan

Alphonse Tan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:04:38 +0000

Good for you! I remember back in the early 1990′s i was toiling myself to death in one of the factories in hsin chu in taiwan.. back then to work in taiwan had not yet been legalized…

I remember an encounter with a co-worker who was also surnamed “Tan”, he to told me: “You are lucky to have finished your studies, you are a college graduate so why are you working here in this factory”. From that day i finished my work term there.. I came home and decided that my firend was correct.

Money may not come in bounty to everyone, but i agree there is money to be made. The problem with our society is parents send kids to go to school have good jobs instead of sending them to school so that they may hone their skills and become entreps.

Unless such a paradigm shift may be realized, each year colleges are just churning out employees and not entreps..

Anyway as for me, I am a filipino-chinese.. born, raised, schooled, earning and will eventually die in the Philippines… I am proud to be who and what i am… a FILIPINO-chinese.

Mabuhay po tayong lahat!

By: Michelle Santos

Michelle Santos — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:55:37 +0000

I completely understand the bootstrapping…I am in the same boat. I just recently contact JP dela Torre and perhaps you can join my virtual team. Let’s talk.