1. As a guest here it isn’t even legal except under specific circumstances.
2. The pay is extremely low in comparison to what you think is ‘low’ in your home country.
3. There are millions of Filipinos who need a job, why should you come before them in their own country?
4. What makes you think you are qualified … hint: even simple things like writing a letter or making a phone call are different … it is a foreign country you know?
5. You’ll subject yourself to Philippine income tax (foreign income (including online income) is exempt, money from the Philippines is not … this most assuredly includes foreigners).
6. You may know the langauge well enough to get by … most if us don’t … but you don’t know the ways of interacting with people that are uniquely Filipino. “Good enough” may not be “good enough” for formal business situations.
7. Many things here revolve around family connections. Who’s your cousin? Do you know what influential families are important to your work and who can be ignored?
8. What school did you go to and who are your batch mates? A lot of business happens not because of anyone’s qualifications but because of who went to school with whom.
9. Do you live at a prestigious enough address? Appearances and often very shallow-seeming things are very important success factors here.
10. Perhaps the most important point: Why on earth would anyone want a job when they can set themselves up independently for more income, more security and a more honest reward for their efforts?
This fellow says it better than I could, but I would have written this article if Steve already hadn’t written. “10 Reasons You Should Never Have A Job.”
So feel free to write any time, on any subject that moves you … but don’t expect me to be much help in finding a job … it’s a losing proposition.
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It is really sad that you have encountered a lot of bad experiences, rather negative foreigners. The biggest thing that i got out of what you wrote was “stay out of my country, “why should we hire you?” “what makes you so special”. The USA doesnt exclude and is comprised of many races and nations, BUT, just like the Philippines is not perfect. There are many things that culturally different between our countries, but just a pinoy can come to the US, adapt and prosper; so should anyone else. I get targeted because of my surname, which you might think is obvious, but still unfair.
I’m glad that i found someone that was more openminded, and made her my best friend…then my wife. I might just be one, and i dont look at all the negative that i encountered as an american in your country. I will share this thought: I appreciate the beauty of your family values, your culture, and your peoples passion to excel and succeed. I have adopted many of my pinoy friends as family and care for them as such. So, please do not judge us all so harshly.. We truly are not all the same.
I think you missed the whole point the author was making. Most people from other countries who think about living in the Philippines think of living there for the good weather and inexpensive living costs…among many reasons…but its not really a destination spot to go and make money. If you want to make good money and freeze your a** off, come and get a job in Fort McMurray, Alberta in the tar sand project…the author made very good points..and to turn this into some racist comment or whatever is absurd. I would only work in the Philippines if I was broke, or I was trying to get to know the boss. A young person who wants to suppliment their income there and teach music is another thing altogether..
Don’t worry, Brock, I took no offense and he understands now anyway. You would have laughed if you had been with me yesterday whwn I was chatting with one of my nieces … she’s a graduate of a good college and passed her international nursing exam a while back … but prefers to work in a call center here. I know the place she is working has a lot of contracts and is actually paying bounties to employees for bring in new job applicants. Since I get soooo many “jobs for foreigners” queries … just the other day I counted 12 dearches on that term in only an hour … I asked her to query the manager in the recruiting office to see if they would sponsor a foreigner on a tourist visa or some other temp visa for a working visa.
“sure”, she replied, :”But tito, these are entry-level agent jobs.” She thought I was looking for some sort of high level management posiitons (most of those in her company come from the exisaitng US employee base … like most, her company is US-owned.
When I told her this query was just about the entry-level positions, she didn’t quite know what to say … very, very hard for an educated Filipino to believe that someoen would come from the US for one of those jobs.
I fully agree, but hey, no matter what I tell some folks, they only want to believe what they want to believe.
I see jobs every Sunday in the papers here in Canada that pay 10 times, 20 times what most Philippine jobs pay … strange how some people are so hung up on a conventional ‘job’ that they refuse to realize there are other, better ways to make money.
Judging whom harshly, sir? My fellow Americans? Some need it, I know, I’ve been one (an American) for more than 64 years now.
Have you read this post, as just one example? Why Don’t I live In My Own Country Anymore? | PhilFAQS
I really think you glanced at this post here, made a rapid-fire assumption about who was what nationality and then did the old ready, fire, aim trick.
That’s your privilege, of course, but you really kind of missed the whole point.
Welcome,anyway, perhaps my next post will make more sense … after all any fault in understanding has to be shared by both the writer and the reader it seems to me.
Dear sir,
Maybe your right, maybe I didnt take the time to re-read the post.
When i read it, it seemed as if it were a pinoy not wanting anyone invading his or her country. I have seen many americans acting stupidly while i lived there. My post was to simply say this: not all people are the same. I am American, of hispanic descent. Puertorican in specific, which means that i am of an ethnicity that is comprised of five different ethnicities. I had the pleasure to be exposed to the beauty and culture of a proud strong people that would give you all the love and friendship that is usally reserved for family members. i would never trade my experiences, my friends or my wife for anything. I believe that anyone should be able to go anywhere and live if they are willing to live by and respect the culture they chose to immerse themselves in.
you dont go to a foreign country and wear your country’s flag on your forehead and expect someone to bow down to you. I’ve seen lots of people make that silly mistakes in lots of different places. Hungary, Italy, Germany, Japan and the entire Balkan region I’ve seen alot of idiot make the classic American mistake. (wearing your pair on your shoulders like an admiral and get christened like a brand new ship…lol)
If i came off harshly (which i dont believe i did) i aplogize if anyone was offended.
Al
but if you read it seems like someone had a bad taste in their mouth upon first reading
but upon further review i did get your point and stand corrected. the statement just wasnt clear initally.
No problem, Al, I do read as if I have abad taste in my mouth .. caused by Westerners who want to come there to the Philippines and ‘wear their flag on their forehead’. I get sick of it, and sometimes it shows in my writing. The writtem word, especially among different ethnicities and cultures who think because they share alanguage they understand each other is difficult, at best.
Example … my understanding and mental picture of you is totally different now because of what you shared about your ethnicity/heritage. A Filipino with the family name Ayala is perceived totally differently than a person with the same family name from a different country. That is in fact what really caught my attention in your first post … I read it as if you were drawing attention to your actual family name, rather than my impression now that you were drawing attention to the fact your were Spanish surnamed.
Believe me, no one in the Philippines ever needs to draw attention to their family name if it is “Ayala”. It’s one of those six or eight “important” family names, the kind of folk who become Senators just by writing their name on the ballot, the sort of folks that doors open for automatically … to use a common stereotype.
Makes life interesting. Thanks for dropping back..
Dave;
I’m pretty sure that you were judging we Kano’s not Pinoy’s. But then I could be wrong. And on that subject take it easy on America, I have Brothers there.(LOL) I think Mr. Ayala mis-read or mis-understood your point. I’m quite pleased that he’s living the American Dream, as it there for anyone who will work for it. Lile I’ve explained to my brother-in-laws here, “You can lay under the mango tree and wait for one to fall, or get off your duff and climb the tree!”
The only US folks who r3eally get uner y skin are the ones so locked in their own superiority fantasy that they come her with a chip on their shoulders. But you can’t please everyone, that’s for sure … nor can you write so that everyone can understand, either. Life goes on.
Adalberto, my fellow Pinoy. You’re reading too much into the article. Coming from the US & having earned the mighty dollars all his life, the low pay here simply isn’t worth it. Besides, the gentleman that he is– he’s letting the likes of us have our way in the job market; it’s our country anyway– that we do need those more than he does– is what he’s saying. Most importantly, he doesn’t really care about fixed-income jobs, here or anywhere. There are other incomes to be had without crowding us pinoys out. The racist card is a bit tiresome if you ask me.
Oops, this is a one-year old post. LOL!
That’s no problem, Greensurfers. Indeed, we all have to watch out for the race card … it gets played all too easily.
However, there’s nothing “racial” at all in my recommendation, as anyone who actually takes the time to read the points will “get”. It doesn’t matter if you are an American, and Indian, a Dutch, and Aussie or even a Filipino by birth who never lived in the Philippines … you aren’t, for example, even going to know the “right” way to answer a telephone or write a buiness letter … things are done differently and your “prior qualifications” don’t really qualify you at all.
Main point, for the “I have no time for reading” folks? Don’t try to come here as a foreigner for a job. Simple enough?
You’ve obviously never worked here.
1. It IS legal for foreigners to work here.
2. The pay is great.
3. The benefits are way better than in America.
4. All that other crap is totally wrong. I’ve never encountered any of that in the 10+ years I’ve been here.
Fariq,
OK, I will bite. care to expand on your comments with an example? I would love to hear how the pay is better and the benefits.
You’re certainly right there, I have never worked in the Philippines. I also have no interest in doing so. So we are in agreement there, for sure.
hi Fariq maby we van have a chat later for more information where you work.i am looking for a job
I want to correct this false information put out here concerning DOLE’s Work Permit for Permanent and Temporary Resident Visa’s. It’s not true that all foreigners in Philippines require Work Permit from DOLE in order to work.
There are many exemptions for some foreigners and an exempted group are foreigners holding PERMANENT RESIDENCE VISA (PRV) and TEMPORARY RESIDENCE VISA (TRV).
With such visas you can work anywhere in Philippines.
Please read from DOLE website: http://www.ble.dole.gov.ph/faqs.asp
Thank you and God bless you!
@ Benjamin Blossom:
Thanks for writing in, Benjamin. However, before you make blanket statements about what I have wrong here, perhaps you might read your own reference a little closer.
Holders of Special Investors Resident Visa (SIRV), Special Retirees Resident Visa (SRRV), Treaty Traders Visa (9d) or Special Non-Immigrant Visa (47(a)2) for as long as they occupy any executive, advisory, supervisory, or technical position in any establishment. are REQUIRED to apply for an AEP. That’s what the DOLE site says, who am I to argue?
Also, you need to be careful about throwing out positive statements regarding how the AEP rules are applied. In just the limited experience of users commenting here have had experiences that can only be described as “Consistently Inconsistent”.
Please explain more what you mean by a PRV and a TRV. The BI does not describe such visas … I’d appreciate a reference. Godspeed.