Thanks and a big tip of the blog hat to long-time reader Vincent who pointed this out to me this morning…
Ten Sleep, Wyoming. Show of hands from anyone who has ever been there, or even driven past it? Population about 350. What would this have to do with living in the Philippines?
Well, actually a lot. We talk here a lot about earning a living in the Philippines. Mostly I write about the entrepreneurial side because I am a big advocate of getting out in front of your own destiny and losing the idea of the old-fashioned job.
People are all entitled to their own wishes though and many of them search here every day looking for “jobs for foreigners in the Philippines”.
Teaching English to Korean students is one that’s almost always available in the larger cities. Pay is low, work is tedious and hours are long but a foreigner can find work that pays perhaps $12 USD to $20 USD per day.
People also search all the time looking for ways to make money with an Internet cafe here. You already know my thoughts on that … at perhaps PhP20 per hour gross income per user, before expenses I don’t think much of your prospects.
Here’s a little town out in the middle of very little that instead of whining about “someone doing something” did something for themselves. You know I get kind of depressed reading the news about President-Elect Obama (or any other politician) planning a gigantic program to create new jobs. That’s bogus. It is not the responsibility of the US government or the Philippines government to ‘create jobs’. And neither one has the resources to do it effectively, either.
The folks in Ten Sleep didn’t wait until some candidate got elected to ‘save them’ … to ‘bail them out’. they did what cowboys are well noted for, they ‘got ‘er done’. All they needed was a broadband connection, Skype and a “hungry crowd” of folks wanting to learn English. Prayers answered.
There’s absolutely no reason a person can’t set up a business like this right now, today, no matter where you live. It doesn’t matter where your teachers are located and it doesn’t matter where your students are located … and it doesn’t matter where the business owner/operator is located. And you can start in say the USA and move to the Philippines yourself, at will. or travel back and forth as you please.
Bottom Line: Where you live and where you want to live have nothing to do with your opportunities.
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Dave – I wrote an article for my Virtual Earner blog tomorrow which ties right in with the concept that you are talking about here. I just went back and edited that article to include information about this article that you wrote here. This is important information, and really proves what you and I have been saying for a long, long time. Making money online is not impossible. Frankly, it isn’t even that hard. You just have to do it.
Thanks Bob for the link and for considering some of my ramblings worthy of comment. I’ll look forward to seeing your article. It’s absolutely true that the only thig stopping most of us is getting out there and doing it. Many people are not even ‘stuck’ all that much over money, they have an idea, they have away thought out to make money and the seem to be waiting for someone’s permission. If what you are planning to do is not illegal or immoral (fattening is ok
) then you really need no one’s “permission”. As my old freind Smokey ised to say, “It (the rule book) didn’t say I couldn’t”
@Mindanao Bob: Gr4eat, Bob. There are so many things like this that people culd offer and make ago of it, but they don’t get off the ground because they are hung up on the “if I were only someplace else, then I could do it”. With the Internet, you _are_ in that place if you want to be.
Hi Dave – as usual another informative article/example.
Nice theme BTW. You must be able to change these in minutes with all your experience
Hi Dave, great article. But I am getting dizzy with your changes
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Sorry Ellen sorry. I know, I gte that way when my wife gets the televison clicker in her hand and start surfing … but it’s all in the goal of helping people find information. I am doing a lot of re-organizing my pages and categoies. Thanks for your (and for everyone else’s) patience.