Most schools in the Philippines produce graduates meant to enter the workforce but train them less as entrepreneurs. No wonder Filipinos are more popular as the world’s workers but few are known as business owners. But sometimes becoming a business owner comes out of necessity rather than passion for the trade. One Filipino who used…
Seeing his future bleak while in the Philippines, Marvin Aguda joined the overseas Filipino worker bandwagon and left the country for Italy in 1999. And like other Filipinos seeking brighter future overseas, he had to take on different jobs: cleaner, caregiver, waiter. In 2002, he found a job as a dishwasher at Il Postino, where…
Seeing his future bleak while in the Philippines, Marvin Aguda joined the overseas Filipino worker bandwagon and left the country for Italy in 1999. And like other Filipinos seeking brighter future overseas, he had to take on different jobs: cleaner, caregiver, waiter. In 2002, he found a job as a dishwasher at Il Postino, where…