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Mentoring and Learning at TutorHub – A Personal Review

Tutoring without the proper and tested tools is not easy. As a student, finding the right tutor from just any site isn’t even cool.

There are a lot of students and even ordinary people who want to get credible responses or answers for their school assignments from expert tutors. And they are willing to pay the most reasonable amount to someone who can help them out easily.

TutorHub is an online community site where Tutors and Students meet to help each other on courseworks, homeworks, and exams. Students ask questions and finds their own tutors that they believe will give them the best answers. Likewise, tutors can create their own profiles to advertise themselves and their services to students. What’s great with Tutorhub is that they provide the necessary tools and technology to make the mentoring more comfortable and effective for both tutors and students. Continue reading Mentoring and Learning at TutorHub – A Personal Review

Buying A Life Insurance Is A Sin?

For most of us elsewhere in the world, getting a life insurance, or a medical insurance at least is a necessity. A must.

I am bringing up the topic about life insurance because a Filipino in Saudi Arabia died in an accident while at work a couple of days go. And then I wondered whether he is covered by any type of life insurance provided by the company or the Saudi government.

It turned out that his family will be receiving a social insurance benefit worth around SAR300,000 or roughly Php3,300,000 from GOSI (General Organization for Social Insurance) without him even contributing a single halala (peso) when he was still alive. The Company pays for the contribution of all its expatriate employees. So basically, expatriates in Saudi Arabia are generally protected as long as their companies are complying with their government’s Shar’a requirements related to GOSI.

In addition to that, I have learned that the employee’s company medical insurance has a “silent” life insurance coverage and that his family will be receiving an estimated amount of SAR250,000 or roughly Php2,750,000. Continue reading Buying A Life Insurance Is A Sin?

Don’t Expect Relatives And Friends To Listen To You Always

There are several times when you get so very frustrated forcing a subject to people you love the most. And oftentimes these are about things that you firmly believe will benefit them the same way you are enjoying now.

I’m talking about trying to sell that “investing” thing to your parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, friends. You want them to grow by showing them the way to do it. You try hard to let them know that this is the key to financial independence.

But you end up being looked at with a quip, “Okay, I’ll think about it…” or “I’ll do it next year..” Continue reading Don’t Expect Relatives And Friends To Listen To You Always