Employment opportunities - Is there one open for you?

Are you in search of employment opportunities? The world-wide economic crunch affected thousands of overseas contract workers. Fortunately, those who are in health jobs are not affected, thanks in part to Pres. Obama's Health Program which is included in his government's priority list.

If you are one of the 50,000 Filipino overseas contract workers who got laid off recently, this is for you.

Here are some options:

• Learn a New Marketable skill


• Stand in Line in Some Job Fair


• Emigrate


• Attend a Business-Building Seminar and Learn a New Business


• Put Up a Business and Be Your Own Boss

You can also avail of counseling services offered by some well-meaning NGO's. It's not easy on your psyche, after all.
All these years you've been sending remittance to your family regularly, then all of a sudden, it's gone...no more.

You begin to think that it's not fair. You were forced by circumstances in the first place to go find work overseas because there's not enough employment opportunities here in your country.

You endured the intense heat somewhere in the Middle East. You survived the loneliness in some far-off land and worked your ass off just so you could provide your kids with a good college education. And build your dream home.

Now you feel your dreams won't get realized because you got laid off.

But what if there's a way for you to earn in U.S. dollars and there's no need to go overseas? Will you grab the opportunity? Of course you will.






So, what's in it for you?

• You Will Have Plenty of Bonding Time With Your Spouse and Kids


• You Have a Better Chance of Building Your Dream Home


• Here's The Best Part. You Earn in U.S. Dollars But You Spend in Philippine Pesos

You don't have to work away from your family. You can work right here and be with your loved ones.

And the good news? There's hope for you...Here are some of those who are already successful. If they can do it, I'm sure you can.

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Your New College Degree - Congratulations and Welcome to the World of the Unemployed

Congratulations! You are now a college graduate. You are now also a part of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed. Kind of depressing, isn't it?

Don't worry, it's just the way things are. Unless you are at the top twenty of your graduating class and unless you're a product of a well-known university, chances are, you'd probably end up as a salesclerk in some big department store.

A friend of mine who used to work in a big power-generation company confided to me,"First thing we do is determine what university a job applicant comes from."
His point? Where you get your college education is an important factor in the employer's selection process.

Even if you're the valedictorian in your graduating class but you come from some second rate school or worse, from some "diploma mill college," while your competition might be at the twentieth spot but it so happens he graduated from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University or de la Salle...who do you think the employer would choose?

It's not a surprise to see sales clerks in big department stores with college degrees in education, accounting, business administration, etc. At least they have a job. But do you think it's fair? No, it's not.

How do you think your parents would feel...and how would you feel when after all the time, effort and money you spent to acquire your college degree, you end up earning minimum wage as a contractual worker?

Fortunately, we were created by God equally. He gave each person on earth exactly twenty four hours in one day. And that includes you and me.

It means you have the choice to use your brains and willpower to improve your circumstances and you have exactly twenty four hours each day to do it...same as the rest of all those who are successful in their own fields of endeavor.

So, what are your options? Simple. Click here: Be an entrepreneur! As the saying goes, "Success comes in cans, while failure comes in cannots..."

Here's one guy who does not need to line up in some job fair...

John Gokongwei, Henry Sy, Lucio Tan...these people came from modest beginnings. Find out the character traits that made them the successful people they are today in the off-line world and emulate them. In addition, here are examples of average people like you and me, who are successful entrepreneurs online. Click here. If they can do it, then you certainly can, too.

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David vs. Goliath - Song Writer Gary Granada's Complaint Against GMA7

Gary Granada vs GMA Kapuso by dosomethingworthwhile

Pinoy song writer and composer Gary Granada may have been taken advantaged of by broadcast network giant GMA7 through its Kapuso Foundation.

The Kapuso Foundation wanted to use Gary's music services, because of his expertise in jingle writing, to do a jingle on its "Tripid Handog Edukasyon" campaign with Procter and Gamble.

So, they gave him the commission.
They gave him the lyrics which he was supposed to set to music with a length of sixty seconds.

He edited the lyrics in such a way as to fit in with his music.

Unfortunately, GMA 7 rejected his final study and contacted another song writer to do the jingle for them. And...here's where things got interesting, they used Gary's edited lyrics and musical structure in their final product.

What amuses me is that GMA 7 is quite active in the campaign against piracy in the music industry.