Just as a point of curiosity to me, why would you want to study for a master’s degree in the Philippines, when you are already in India? Seems to me that a lot of people here would love to go to India for advanced computer-related degrees, rather than the other way ’round?

Go to asiahotels.com and look at their list of 5 star hotels in the Philippines and start finding out who the GM is for each hotel, find out who the executive chefs at each one, and figure out how you could be better than he or she is. Then sell yourself to the GM … you surely won’t find a job like that surfing around and reading sites like this one.

Hint. If I were the manager of a 5 star hotel and someone said, “I want to be the executive chef of a “4 or 5 star hotel”, I’d say, “Thanks for stopping by, but you surely aren’t ready for the 5 star level if you would even think of a 4 star job.”

A can you imagine a baseball player saying, Oh I’d like to start in the major leagues, or else maybe in the minors”? You better believe he’s going to start in the minors, that’s for sure. If you think you have what it takes to ‘play’ at the 5 star level, then act the part … otherwise, no sense in pursuing your goal.

Another thought to chew on in this whole process … with your background you should find it relatively easy to get a job the ‘fits’ your skills pretty well in the US (or, dare we say at some overseas locations from some defense contractor based in the USA).

In the long view, have you given much consideration to your new wife to the USA? I know there are waiting times, forms to fill up and so on, but you should consider that if you make the move to limit your life together only to the Philippines there are a lot of benefits … money that you have paid for years and years, like your Social Security … that she will be denied for life.

10 years ago when my wife and I got married, she was already working here in the Philippines with a responsible job with a large corporations … and with my pensions, I certainly didn’t need a job to hold up my side of the marriage. We very nearly married and set up residence in Quezon City near her work … and who is to say that in some ways that wouldn’t have been the right thing to do.

Instead, we “bit the bullet” and waited out a Fiancee visa for her, and spent nearly six years in the USA while she attained her US citizenship. It sounds like along time but believe me, we both know today that we made the right decision. Having both her US and Filipino passports opens many doors for my wife, and if 9as is actuarially likely) I predecease her, she’ll get what is coming to her from the Social Security I paid into all those years.

Anyway … Godspeed.

Not having any idea what kind of enployment you are looking for or what your skills and experience are, I have no way of guessing what your chances are.

You may think the wages are in line with the cost of livig but most foreigners will never be comfortable with them, but if your wife is agood manager and you refain from typicl Western excesses you might be able to do it.

I suggest you read up a little more on the requirements in this article you just commented on and other related ones … what skills do you offer that can’t be filled by a Filipino … that’s one of the first things your propextive employer has to prove to the DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment). Godspeed.