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19 Secrets That Overseas Filipino Workers Won’t Tell You

6. Watching a Filipinio TV show or movie can be a struggle.

They have to wait for it to be available online or to be released in whatever country they’re in. Entertainment is always late.

7. OFWs can’t afford to get sick because no one would be there to take care of them.

And also, sayang ‘yung suswelduhin.

 

8. Some of them take on extreme jobs they didn’t even sign up for.

Some even work with machines that are big enough to crush them. And then there’s always the risk of being scammed by an agency.

9. And of course, there are the looooong hours they work to get that extra pay.

10. And when they get home, they still have to do chores because, again, no one is there to do it for them.

On top of being tired from a 12-hour shift, they’d still have to do laundry and cook dinner.

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