Humanity by nature differs in characteristics regardless of culture, heritage, or race. Some say that Americans are known for meticulousness or precision in terms of output accuracy, innovativeness, and specifically time consciousness.
Filipinos in its own right have been famous for a relative laxity in performing required or delegated tasks particularly workers in the government since those employed in private firms are generally under maximum supervision to ensure that the salary rate is commensurate to the required job performance. This is a given fact for Filipinos working within its own country.
Soon as dissatisfaction with the wage sets in, a dollar earning potential becomes the typical alternative route in resolving the un-parallelism between the family resources available against daily keep requirements. Working away from the homeland transforms the Filipino Overseas workers (OFWs) into quality and industrious workers that fortunately never escape from keen observation by foreign employers.
Neither could it be denied that the Philippines is under economic stringency regardless of government claims of a sound economy. The country is far from being economically viable save for the inherently moneyed people and corrupt officials in the government where series of price increases on basic commodities are considered negligible contrary to the adversity imposed into the masses and impoverished individuals who suffer the consequentiality.
Skilled Workers
The country is apparently running out of skilled workers such as plumbers, pipe fitters, welders, carpenters, lathe machine and heavy equipment operators, mason and laborers among the most demanded skills that the country has but gradually diminishing in number; claimed by the glittering opportunities dollar countries offer since job fairs became a fashion within the country.
Government sponsored job fairs are but cloaked with the objective of helping Filipinos land a better earning job abroad, which the government basically benefits from the dollar remittances the overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) remit to their families in the country.
While these types of jobs seemingly have no place in the Philippines, they are catered albeit subtly to foreign employers seeking the relative services.
Domestic helpers abroad
The limited job opportunities in the country prompted the less educated and professionals alike to land as domestic helpers in other Asian countries generally in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East. Some luckily made financial viability upon finding good employers but unfortunate for the rest that come back home as package in a box that totally topples a family dream. Rape if not murder has been the common cause of misfortune of women domestic helpers working in other Asian countries.
Soon as relative reports about OFW murder or rape reaches the attention of the tri-media and case becomes hot news item, government officials start stealing the scene; primarily for publicity, guised with good deed for the record in preparation for the next election bid. With sheer luck, the family of the victim gets financial support from the government with a massive documentation while handling a consolation check to the bereaved family. Everyone thoughts it befitting for the government to provide financial assistance by way of gratitude for the dollar remittances of the victim that formed part in the total dollar benefits the government continuously receives from OFWs.
Doctors and Nurses
Medicine and Nursing professions are among the most expensive academic courses that only average and wealthy families can afford; even academic scholars find difficulty coping up with the relative expenses entailed by the course. However, Medical Doctors merely practicing as general physicians, claim of not being financially compensated based on services rendered particularly those working in government hospitals and in the rural areas. Unless they have aged with the job or simply contented with a minimal earning having no family to support with or no ambition at all for a better future, these medical practitioners don't entertain the idea of going out of the country for purpose of additional income.
Doctors however, wouldn't have taken the course without the motivation for a greener pasture in the field of medicine. Reality speaks that Doctors expect a high earning potential that contrary to the prospect drives them away to a dollar paying country for the realization of a dream in earning according to their desire.
Under the same note, Philippines, which has a pool of registered nurses, had long been producing quality nurses to countries all over the globe. The government is proud to say that Filipino nurses have internationally proven that among other Asian countries supplying nurses abroad, only Filipinos are mostly equipped with the skills, training experiences, and expertise in speaking the English language that gained them a vantage point against all nurse applicants from other Asian nations.
To date, skilled Filipino workers maintain an exodus outside country in anticipation of a better earning prospect elsewhere; enduring the loneliness, hardships, and sacrifices for purpose of economic sustainability deprived in their own country.
While the Philippines continue producing quality workers to cater the endless global need, the government officials shall always have an avenue for corruption at the expense of Filipino workers that prefer working abroad to suffer so much poverty in the home country.
