Long before graduating my degree in Political Science and enrolled my Master in Business Management MBM course, I have dreamed of going outside the country. Filipino as I am who belong into an impoverished household I envisioned to work abroad for my family. Why is that so?
Working abroad provide lots of opportunities, not only that I can develop my career, but to provide better living conditions with my family left in the Philippines. I am one of those people who are fascinated with making their career more meaningful and more rewarding. Those individual who wants to receive more and a justifiable compensation that risks their lives by working on unsafe working conditions abroad in exchange of the dollars.
Filipino's generally and usually are being trained or taught to become workers in the future earlier in our education. This is rooted from our history when we were under the Spanish colonization. Some of our ancestors willingly submit themselves to the friars and served them without a second thought. We are also aware that there are those who did nothing, but fight with all their might but defeated in the end.
Millions of Filipino's left their family's at home in the Philippines in exchange of getting works in other countries with a more better pays, because generally, working at our homeland is an agony you have to endure day by day. With all the tax you have to pay, electricity bills, telephone bills, children's tuition fee, the cost of getting sick, the high transportation fare, the high cost of the basic commodity---food, housing, clothing.
Its very ironic when our heroes like Dr. Jose Rizal and the rest fought for freedom and yet, millions of us left our home country and works abroad like a slave. Well, how many Filipino workers abroad who went home inside the box, cold---because they are not treated well by their masters and bosses. From the millions of Filipino workers abroad, how many Filipino families had transformed their living condition?
Yes, family members enslave themselves in countries like Saudi Arabia, United States, Dubai and etc., but what about those people left in the Philippines? Did they really transform their economic condition? By mere observation upon my neighbors, family who are left at home become lazy. They become very dependent on the amount of money they receive from their parents working abroad regularly. When I went home from an educational tour in Singapore, I've met this man from Saudi Arabia. Not that I was keen in listening his stories, but he voluntarily told his sad stories while we were waiting our flight to Cagayan de Oro. I can see it in his eyes that he is too wary. From the hospitalization to death of his father ---who will be happy with that, and he was the one who shouldered everything. What strikes me most in his story is that---he told me about his own family. While he misses them during his absence, he send them money regularly. Surprisingly, he observed that his family upon receiving the money, will just go directly to the malls and shop all the way, eat all the way and even will complain a lot if the money he sends got delayed, then go home with an empty pockets.
I believe, it could have been better if the family that is left in the Philippines should be responsible enough by not just shop like there is no tomorrow. It is very easy for them to spend such money, because they didn't work hard for it. They did not know how much sweat and blood their family members have shed, just to have some amount to be sent for their family at their home country.
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