Several people on an earlier post said a four-year degree just means you end up working at Jollibee.
Sure, picking the wrong four-year course without proper guidance can land you exactly there.
But if you have a four-year runway and someone actively researching the job market with you, helping choose the right educational track, build the right skills and create opportunities along the way, the outcome can be very different.
This post is for those of you whose family members or loved ones are looking at degree programs and career paths that could lead to a good life.
I've personally outsourced more than 100,000 hours of work to the Philippines, and clients I know have probably outsourced ten times that. Much of it was work paying $8 to $20 an hour.
Yes, AI will wipe out some of that work, but it will also improve other jobs and create new opportunities. Some of the Filipinos I work with in tech already earn as much as, or more than, what a lot of retired foreigners here live on each month.
Four years is a long runway. Use it wisely.
Sadly, there seems to be some truth to this. It looks to me like there's a kind of 'degree inflation' going on here. In the UK you need a degree to get a professional job. But here even waitresses and construction workers seem to need one. I don't get what's driving it 🤷♂️ Education for education's sake. Doesn't make sense, does it??
Culturally, they really favor college here over being a VA, which often pays many times more. One of my VAs, who I pay 500 pesos an hour for purely AI tasks (image generation), put her work on the back burner to focus on college for a teaching degree, which will pay less once she graduates =P
My college experience wasn't career prep (that's what trade schools are for). It sharpened my thinking and made me better at using resources to design the life I want. (Most college graduates don't necessarily spend their careers in the exact field they majored in. The value of a college education can go well beyond job training.)
Or just don't study after compulsory school. It doesn't matter in the slightest.
Yes, not in the Philippines, but I know someone whose daughter graduated with a BS in Geology a couple of years ago. She's still working at the local Chinese restaurant where she worked as a student. So yes, the right degree that matches the most in-demand careers matters.
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