45? Most of the ads I see for workers are looking for under 25. Management jobs a little older, usually around 30.

It is my perception and you can correct me if I’m wrong that if you’re Filipino and not working by 25 your chances of obtaining work is virtually zero. I must say though, the ads I have seen are in Cebu. I have known people that say the can find work in Manila.

I’ve even seen Filipino claim that Filipino are lazy and can find work if they try. One held up an example of a friend that came from Leyte to Cebu to find work but he was about 21.

If one can pull it off, working for themselves is the way to go. Even a roadside eatery would seem a more likely choice. Hard work and and hard to get ahead that way but with a lot of will power, I THINK someone that is poor could maybe make that work. Just from my limited observations though.

I tell you though, anyone can make money online. Good English helps though and a LOT of time. It usually takes time to learn how to do it and yes, I’m afraid a little money. Even $20 a month can be a significant outlay for the poor. It would be hard to make money online for less than $10 a month. And for the first year, most people wont earn that money back so if getting your daily meal is an issue and for many it is, that just isn’t possible.

Sadly, most of the companies they own will not hire those who are 45 years old and above. These people who are rejected/discriminated will end up looking for work abroad, worst, others stay in our country for years being unproductive without work or means of livelihood.

This practice creates poverty and this is very prevalent in the Philippines – (is it like traffic in EDSA, like pollution in our cities, like denuded forests and destroyed coral reefs?) – imagine these are our leaders in business and government, with degrees left and right from very reputable schools/universities.

These people are getting richer and richer and the gap between the rich and the poor is obviously getting wider and wider. If the labour group ask for a modest amount of salary increase, their always reason is many companies will close shop. etc. So many reasons, so many excuses, so many negotiations, so many waste of precious time and lost opportunities.

This affects not only the poor but also them, their relationships with their countrymen and and in the end their country as a whole. There are two sins they cannot escape, the sin of commission and the sin of omission.

There is a need to bring conscience back – if you have buried them, raise it up and nurture it. Now (not tomorrow) is the time to act out what is required, to be socially responsible (forget it they are mostly lip service). Or are their conscience already seared?

Please, it is never too late to change for the better and eventually for the best.

God bless the Philippines!

Many children are too poor to go to school or the family sends them out to work. Or like the girls in one of these videos, the family says they try to make her go to school but she wont go. In any case, the cycle continues.

They have her working, I hope it is to teach her about the value of work.

I’ve not seen that. The graveyards I know of in Bogo are often run down, crypts are broken sometimes. Especially the ones off from the road. I think there is a well kept one here some place in Bogo though I’ve never seen it.

Sometimes, we have beggers that come to the house. If I give them anything they keep coming back. I’ve decided now that it isn’t a good idea to give to these people. It is inviting trouble.