What's 1,000 dollars in the US? That's almost nothing, especially if your rent is 700 dollars a month, which would be rent for a small room. But here in the Philippines, that translates to Php 56k a month. Because you are a freelancer, the employer in the US can forget about your SS and other benefits required by law. You, Pinoy, are happy and content with your US$ 1,000, and your employer is happy with the cheap salary he is paying you.
That's freelancing and virtual job in the Philippines which have the potential to gradually and quietly create an underground economic boom very soon. A lot of freelancers who have become experts at this make something like US$ 3k to US$ 5k a month, and sometimes that's just for one client. Some freelancers manage to handle more than one.
Here's what astounds me about this. High school or college dropouts are making big money here, so are folks with carabao English. You would think that a gig like this requires good English. Nope. Because it's mostly scripted. I mean the appointment setter gig. You schedule prospects for appointments so sellers can meet with them. You do this solely on the chat box where you copy-paste most of your responses. So, no need to talk to anyone face-to-face in English.
Other freelancing or virtual jobs involve light tasks like emailing, filing, documenting, chatting, and typing or encoding. Other heavier stuff include content writing, copywriting, graphic arts, video editing, admin assistance, and accounting, among other things. But all these generally eats up only about 3 to 4 hours of their time everyday. No wonder some freelancers can do 2 to 3 clients simultaneously and make US$ 5k a month or Php 280,000. A MONTH.
And these are high school dropouts. 😕
Some folks look for fulltime jobs with dollar monthly pays as employees of a US or multinational company, working from home (WFH). Well, it's either WFH all the time or reporting for work just a few times. Some work remotely (another term for WFH) for Pinoy companies getting paid Php 30k to Php 70k a month minus the hassles of daily commute.
Definitely, the employment landscape is slowly but surely transforming and freelancing and virtual jobs will soon eliminate or delete traditional employment, and this is not to mention trends in online e-commerce and drop shipping. And what about the slow rise of affiliate marketing?
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