Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) About How To Travel, Retire, Work or Start a Business and Live in the Philippines
Here’s a little real world experience treat for you. It’s all well and good for me to keep talking theory about how you could live in the Philippines (or anywhere else) and earn your own living … but am I talking theory, “Pie in the Sky” type thoughts or are people actually walking the walk and not just talking the talk? Now of course I’m living in the Philippines and earning money via business efforts I have set up online, but from me you will always get the truth. I am not … [Read more...]
I really wanted to add this into my last post, The Marines Are Looking For A Few Good Men, And You Ain’t It! but it was already nearly 2,000 words … way more than most of you want to read, and actually, way too many words about almost any subject. I do go on at times *sigh* But that’s because I am NOT an expert writer (if I were, I would write “shorter”). But I am an expert in a number of things … for example, helping people ‘sell themselves” in the job search process. … [Read more...]
Yep, I bet many of you reading this are saying, “Exactly, Dave, you keep telling us to make our own business, earn our own living but most of us don’t know that much of interest to others.” Well, is that true? Could be, after all I don’t really know what’s inside your head, maybe it is kind of empty (joke, lang), but I would be willing to wager that there is more of interest in there than you are willing to let on. Let me give you just one quick and easy to underrated example … [Read more...]
“What sort of business should I start in the Philippines”? That may not be my most asked question here on PhilFAQS, but it is certainly very high in the running. I Have No Idea That would be my most popular answer. I have a ton of business ideas on my own, more than I could possibly ever put up for myself, and yet there are sources around with ideas … many of them very good ideas, that dwarf my meager imagination. One of them which I would like to introduce you to today is run by … [Read more...]
A long-time friend of mine recently retired from a “real job” here in the Philippines. You know how famous I am for saying foreigners can’t find work in the Philippines. (and mostly, I’m right … but there are exceptions to every rule). My dear wife, the Unofficial Cook and I went to a very enjoyable lunch with this reader (at one of my fav places on Subic, the Casabalanca). One of the things my reader discussed was a desire to earn a bit of extra money … without entering … [Read more...]
Many Readers Know I earn a Non-Trivial Income From Various Online Entrepreneurial Efforts. So Do I Have a Gift? A day or so ago I was reading entries on a popular forum about living in the Philippines. A member of the forum had mentioned he had been living in the Philippines now for some time, supporting himself … he was in his 40’s, and (in his own words), “too young for Retirement”. Of course, as you might imagine, a second member jumped right in and said. “Oh wow, … [Read more...]
A few days ago I saw a great snippet in a post by my friends from AdSenseFlippers.com … two bred and born (ever think how silly it is to say “born and bred? You have to be bred before you can be born) American guys who now live and run several successful online-oriented businesses here in the Philippines. Why An Internet Business In The Philippines We’re often enamored with the Silicon Valley start-ups like Linked-In, Pinterest, and others with their massive, multi-million … [Read more...]
It’s not often one reader’s comments give we two article ideas. but this one from long-time reader Gary Wigle did. Thanks Gary. Part one answered here, part two of your question to follow. My wife Meriam is a teacher. Not an easy life. I really past the working age and teaching English here in the Philippines doesn’t sound like fun to me. And this great comment just came in from Kevin .. thanks Kevin: I’m a teacher in the US and I’m starting an online teaching school for English … [Read more...]
One of the mos6t popular subjects here at PhilFAQS.com is “how to make money”. Some people are looking to make money with an online business in the Philippines Some people are looking to start “dirt based”, conventional offline businesses Some people want a way to make money while they are still back in the USA to finance a future move. Doesn’t matter what the exact details are, the common thread is that most of you interested in any job or business is, “how to make money”. Am … [Read more...]
Move to the Philippines Move to the Philippines? Hey, that’s what hundreds and thousands of folks come here looking to do almost every day. Sounds like an ideal thing to do, doesn’t it? Well “paradise” it ain’t, but compared to “working for the man” back in Colorado winters, my last gig before I moved to the Philippines, full time, myself, it sure is a lot closer to paradise and any other J*O*B situation I was ever in before. But, of course, the number one question on … [Read more...]
If I had to name a single excuse why people who ask me for help … whether advice about moving to the Philippines or how to earn money or even to how they can fix a messed up Philippine-related marital situation give me for not getting started on what needs to be done … and getting it done … my answer would be easy. “I don’t have time”. And if I had to venture an opinion on what the most bogus, limp, un-thought-out excuse always is, it would be that same worn out, … [Read more...]
OK, it’s a Monday here in the Philippines. Some of my regular readers know that Mondays are my usual days for publishing editorials and other somewhat ‘off the wall’ posts. Well this one will certainly live up to that habit, but I had a whole bunch of issues I wanted to cover about business and it just seemed appropriate to lump all of them into one article … so if you are interested in: Starting a Business in the Philippines Starting a Business in the States that you can … [Read more...]
