Have you ever experienced getting squeezed between intellectual friends or acquaintances in one chatting occasion? Like you were in a middle of three English-speaking geeks talking about Star Trek and Harry Potter when in fact you still do not understand until now what those movies really are all about?
Category: Life Lessons
An OFW Must Learn and Invest to Achieve Financial Independence
When a fellow investment advocate urged me to start an online movement to teach overseas Filipino workers on investing, entrepreneurship, and personal finance, I began to realize that this must be the reason why this time around God wanted me back here in Saudi Arabia.
Let me go back in time.
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What Hurts You Can Make You Move (OFW Stories)
Every end of the month I send money back home for our tithes, to fund my investment portfolio, and a few more bucks for my mother’s monthly needs. Call it routine for many Filipinos like me who’s based and working abroad.
It’s common to see kababayans lining up the banks and remittance centers during the last week and first days of the month. As you know, salaries abroad are given mostly on a monthly basis unlike in the Philippines where many companies pay their employees twice a month.
In fact, there are lots of heartbreaking stories you will hear from fellow Filipinos while waiting in line to send money. These are a few of them:
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