Something is wrong here.Winston wrote:..... working in the Philippines is pointless and a waste of time because you only get 150 pesos a day plus some tips. Even when you work in a nice fancy restaurant where prices are expensive, you still only get 200 pesos a day, which is not even enough to eat two meals a day. So half the Filipino population has decided that it's better not to work at all. I don't know how they survive or not starve to death though.
PHP 200,- is enough to pay for 2 meals a day for a simple Filipino in Cebu City for sure.
I will be in Cebu next week to see my Filipina fosterdaughter again and Cebu for sure is not a place with high salaries, jobless rate is up to 50 percent among young low-educated people.
However even simple employment like working at jolibee brings a minimum income of php 375,- + overtime and health insurance. The cousin of my foster daughter is working there and this is just a simple jolibee in Mandaue City outside of Cebu City. If she is busy she makes about php 10.000,- a month.
The neighbor of my foster daughter is a woman who works as a teacher in the public elementary school nearby and gets php 14000,-.
The very low educated son of the caretaker who took care of my fosterdaughter when she was still a small child is working as a machinist/helper on a cargo ship (Philippines only not abroad), income php 11.000,- + food + health insurance, also some vacation and bonus pay. No home required, he can sleep on the ship, as he has his own little cabin.
His mother, the caretaker of my foster daughter, is also working but self-employed and selling items of any kind in the market in Mandaue, she earns often up to php 25.000,- per month.
The sister of my foster daughter is almost blind, but she is willing to do any work as an office helper, as phone operator, selling some things in a shop nearby, sometimes doing also other work like assorting fruits in a factory. Every day, despite handicapped, she is earning at least around 300,-.
Yes, payment is very low, and it is very difficult to find a job for low educated young people, but I do not know anybody who works regularly and full-time and gets only php 150,- per day.