Offshore Foreign Worker. The Philippines is the number 1 exporter of nurses in the world, and seamen who work cargo or cruise ships. Also export Construction workers, domestic help, and shop workers.
10% Of the population work abroad and send money home (More so the women than the men) In the rich countries the Philippines recruiters illegally take money from Employers and Employees. In Shitholes like the middle east, the Employees don't have to pay.
The Philippines trains their women to be responsible, but are lenient on the boys. Their culture is that you have an obligation to help your parents. In fact its law that you help them if they need it, although there's no set amount. They have no robust retirement, many don't pay into their SS system, and it gives little money to the ones that do.
Very hard to find a job there, often even fast food wants you to have a degree except in a few areas where workers are scarce. Meanwhile pay is abysmal many people earning far below minimum wage which is 7-8 bucks a DAY. Thats about the pay an domestic or construction worker earns in the Middle East. The reason the Filipinos go there is because accommodations and food is also part of the pay. In the Philippines living 30 miles away from the city you work in means renting a dorm bunk they call bedspace, and going home on the weekends due to travel expenses costing more to go thirty miles each way is more than the bed space.
An Example from when I lived there. Security guards mostly have fixer licenses, the agencies provide them then pay the guard below minimum wage. I knew a lot of security guards as I have been one since I was injured on the job in my thirties. So guard 30 miles away from the village gets paid 250 peso a day (Minimum wage was 450) Transportation costs a total of 100 pesos a day. Bedspace was 1,000 pesos a month. So cheaper to flophouse than travel, then you senmd as much as you can to the village, to Nanay (Mother). She makes sure she feeds the family including extended family on whatever comes her way in money.
Since3 COVID most food costs as much or more than here, food is sold on the world market after all. Rice is still cheap, a buck buys a kilo, and that is the main thing people have to eat. A kilo of rice can feed 5 or 7 people for a day. Sometimes there's only a bite or two of fish or meat or 1 egg to share over the top. Globalism has made slaves of the world... "Rice is Life" is a popular saying there, they eat rice every meal...
Offshore Foreign Worker. The Philippines is the number 1 exporter of nurses in the world, and seamen who work cargo or cruise ships. Also export Construction workers, domestic help, and shop workers.
10% Of the population work abroad and send money home (More so the women than the men) In the rich countries the Philippines recruiters illegally take money from Employers and Employees. In Shitholes like the middle east, the Employees don't have to pay.
The Philippines trains their women to be responsible, but are lenient on the boys. Their culture is that you have an obligation to help your parents. In fact its law that you help them if they need it, although there's no set amount. They have no robust retirement, many don't pay into their SS system, and it gives little money to the ones that do.
Very hard to find a job there, often even fast food wants you to have a degree except in a few areas where workers are scarce. Meanwhile pay is abysmal many people earning far below minimum wage which is 7-8 bucks a DAY. Thats about the pay an domestic or construction worker earns in the Middle East. The reason the Filipinos go there is because accommodations and food is also part of the pay. In the Philippines living 30 miles away from the city you work in means renting a dorm bunk they call bedspace, and going home on the weekends due to travel expenses costing more to go thirty miles each way is more than the bed space.
An Example from when I lived there. Security guards mostly have fixer licenses, the agencies provide them then pay the guard below minimum wage. I knew a lot of security guards as I have been one since I was injured on the job in my thirties. So guard 30 miles away from the village gets paid 250 peso a day (Minimum wage was 450) Transportation costs a total of 100 pesos a day. Bedspace was 1,000 pesos a month. So cheaper to flophouse than travel, then you senmd as much as you can to the village, to Nanay (Mother). She makes sure she feeds the family including extended family on whatever comes her way in money.
Since3 COVID most food costs as much or more than here, food is sold on the world market after all. Rice is still cheap, a buck buys a kilo, and that is the main thing people have to eat. A kilo of rice can feed 5 or 7 people for a day. Sometimes there's only a bite or two of fish or meat or 1 egg to share over the top. Globalism has made slaves of the world... "Rice is Life" is a popular saying there, they eat rice every meal...