I’m an OFW here in Singapore for many years now and through out my journey and Gods grace i was given an opportunity to restore my self from debt, live a comfortable life, prepare for our future and become a blessing to my family. Just like many other OFW that works abroad living outside our country is not a bed of roses its not a comfort zone a lot of adjustment and sacrifices to trade our time for money because we want to give the best life for our family. One thing i realize that life as an OFW here in Singapore, there are full of uncertainty in terms of job. We don’t know when our journey ends here because even the company likes you to stay, but don’t have enough quota for the company to provide you working visa, you will end up unprepared looking for another job or probably going back home.

Caught up Unprepared

Its a common thing for most of the foreigners here to be worried when their working visa expired or the company close due to bad business. Despite of many years of service or how good are you on your field of work or expertise there’s no exemption to the fact that you might loose your job, and this is a reality that we have to accept here. This type of senario will suddenly shift your plans 180 degrees. Sudden change will make you worry and anxiety will star to trigger…. How can i provide now for my family? How i can finance the house that i bought? What will happen to the education of my children? or may be how will i start all over again? If you caught unprepared most likely all your hardwork will be a mess and end up starting again from scratch. Most of our kababayan here in Singapore that are work pass holders including me are not exempted to this. We are all hoping and praying that the next renewal of our pass our names will not be picked on a raffle draw of uncertainties.

Plan to be prepared

We filipinos are know to be resilient from difficulty in life wether its calamity or life situation, we tend to bend and stand up again. This is something we are proud of and i could say very unique characteristic with other neighboring countries. But now the question is until when we will be resilient? Are we learning from this experience or are we keeping our self to be resilient as long as we can?

The reason why i ask this question is because i know majority of OFW know that chances of loosing jobs here in Singapore is high, but how come we dont take action, we don’t make a corrective plan to address transition and sudden lost of job. If the main reason why we work is money and your source of income is your job why we dont plan to work on your finances or invest in your self about seminar or workshop on how money to works for you.

Its a sad reality that despite being resilient we don’t adapt change and planning. We just keep moving in circle and repeating same pattern all over again.

Our kababayan here, they are tie up from their 8-6 job, some are extented to 12 hours per day living a rat race without savings. Some despite of being bless here with years of service they never invested for their selves to improve. Why only 1% of filipino population are into investing despite having a 10M of OFW working in different parts of the world? I understand… sometimes we need to learn it the hard way before we realise to take action and i my self I’ve been thru the same agony and realization.

Driven Purpose

My passion about technology, personal finance and business push me to reach to people who wants control for their life. If your an OFW or someone aspiring to be financially free and independent, this blog will take you to your own personal journey toward a better life for your self and your family. With the latest tools online i can teach you how to start online business with a minimum risk involved, allowing your self to be equip on buying and selling online, building your own store, market your products and how to pick your products. Slowly building your finances while having your own regular job. This will be your story and i will guide you step by step to reach for your goal, your dream and your life. Welcome to BizTech!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton