Filipinos’ Working Preference

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.