u/Joseph20102011

Aaminin nalang natin na hindi naman lahat na naging DepEd teacher, especially ngayon, ay kagustohan talaga nila na naging teacher in the first place, to the point na may iba dyan na gusto na mag-abroad o mag-shift career like pagiging full-time Tiktok content creator, pero hindi makapagresign dahil lubog sa utang na dapat bayarin nila sa lending institutions bago pa sila magresign mula sa DepEd. Kung probationary ang employment status, hindi kayo lalapitan ng lending institutions lol.

What if gawin nalang "probationary" ang mga bagong hired na Teacher I for at least three years, as if yung mga ayaw talaga magpermanent sa DepEd at magretire as DepEd teacher ay may enough time na magreflect bilang probationary teacher kung calling ba talaga nila ang pagiging teacher o hindi? Itong idea ko ay parang sa mga healthcare worker like nurses or medtech na stepping stone lang ang government service para makapagwork abroad.

It's time to settle expat vs immigrant definition debate here, once and for all, where the original definition of an expat and an immigrant must be followed, where the former must be someone who resides in a foreign country for a few years but not intending to have roots like marrying locals, or retiring and dying in a foreign country, while an immigrant is someone who intends to take roots by marrying locals or co-ethnic permanent resident immigrant, working in a foreign country in either local or foreign-based company, and of course retiring and dying in a foreign country.

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For me, there is nothing wrong about elderly white men who are SRRV holder and residing in the Philippines being called "immigrant", if any of the aforementioned definition conditions of an "immigrant" is followed by him like marrying a local and if you have an offspring, you choose to bring them to a local public or private school, not international school.

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Of course, the Philippine constitution and statutes must be overhauled to meet the 21st century human migration flow reality like replacing citizenship-based with resident-based business ownership laws.

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What if para magiging mas madali para sa mga DepEd public school teachers na makapagresign at magwork abroad o other industry like IT/BPO o freelancing ay COS nalang ang employment position ng non-master teachers, magiging parang BPO ang DepEd na job hopping, hindi na climbing up the ladder (career progression) through taking masters degree ang norm?

In this setup, pwede na taasan ang starting salary ng T1 from SG 11 to SG 15, pero hindi ka na permanent plantilla, so mas magiging stepping stone nalang (pang-experience) ang pagiging DepEd teacher, hindi na full-time career until retirement.

I think local Filipino football fans must stop being delusional that this sport will become the #1 sport among local fans anytime soon.

To create a grassroots-based football player and fan ecosystem within our country, it needs to cater to expats and their descendants currently residing in the Philippines and let it flourish on its own, in parallel with the locally dominated basketball. In this manner, after three generations, locals will be accustomed to watching football where they have half-expat offspring.

My reference here is the American MLS, which is largely a football (soccer) professional sport composed of players of Hispanic descent and a Hispanic-centric fan base within the USA.

In the Apartheid-era South Africa, whites and blacks had their own parallel team sports, rugby and football, respectively, but after the end of the Apartheid, both racial groups in South Africa embraced each other's team sports, with then-South African president Nelson Mandela embracing rugby during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

If the Philippines follows the aforementioned paths for intergenerational football adoption by locals, then football will become as popular as a spectator team sport as basketball in a few generations.

Tayong mga local na millennial at Gen Z, huwag na nating ipilit na manood at tangkilikin ang football; hayaan na lang natin ang susunod na henerasyon (Gen Alphas and Betas) na magdesisyon kung gusto nila ang football o hindi.

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Ano po ba ang thoughts nyo dito sa r/phinvest kung i-adopt natin ang land ownership system ng China (mainland), Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, at Vietnam, kung saan yung building (residential and commercial) structure lang ang pwede makapagmay-ari ng private individual, pero yung surface na lupa ay ang Estado ang owner at lessee lang ang private individual or corporation?

Sa scenario na ito kung i-implement ito, both resident citizens at non-citizens ay may level playing field na, pero perpetual lessee nalang pero pwede both na maging homeowner. Sa the same na scenario na ito, may leverage na ang Estado na i-saturate ang housing market ng excess vacant houses and condominiums tulad sa China, so magiging mas madali para sa ating gobierno na i-pop ang real estate price bubble through building ghost cities and high-rise condominiums out of no where. Payag ba kayo sa scenario na ito?

Apparently, there is much scrutiny among locals like myself on expats dating and marrying Filipinos who aren't college-educated licensed professionals or with lopsided age-gap differences.

Since dating and marrying Filipinas coming from the upper-middle class and beyond is improbable for most expats here on this subreddit, would you date and then marry Filipina public school teachers or government nurses from humble backgrounds with roughly the same age cohort as yours (with independent income and assets already before you met her), if you were given a chance to do so?