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Last week after an amazing day of skiing, my 8yr old had a rough last run down the mountain: He wasn't even going very fast. He just got tangled up and fell flat on his face with his legs spread as wide as they could be. He couldn't get himself up. I had to scoot over and help him. Frustrated and helpless. Then... |
I understand why many business owners prefer to have their OFS work in their timezone. It's just more convenient. You don't have to worry about things like scheduling meetings and whatnot. There's also the added benefit of monitoring your OFS work hours. The first time I hired someone the agency said "Do you want the... |
I'm not a big holiday person. Halloween...my least favorite day of the year. Valentines day? Thursday. St Patricks day? Huh? I'm just not a big celebration kind of guy. I just can't get into it. For me, the only reason I even know Chinese New Year is happening is because of my team in the Philippines. It's a big d... |
People ask me regularly who writes this email. 2 people: - Julia, my OFS: - and Me (my wife gets me a formal picture every year when we take family photos): The next question is What did you look for when hiring her? Simple. English skills. That's it. Although, when I hired her I wasn't hiring her to write my ... |
Well...I was going to talk about background checks, but then I read what my OFS wrote for this email: "No background check beats doing the work yourself." I laughed. Out loud. My OFS gets it! We’re so used to background checks here in the US it’s impossible to think that there are places in the world that don’t do ... |
OFS = Online Filipino Specialist. I invented it because I don't like the term VA. People think a VA is a secretary. Someone who can only do mundane tasks. Someone who doesn't really have skills. Someone who can do data entry. Someone who can only follow step by step instruction and nothing else. ...that's not who yo... |
It seems like there’s news about another hack or data breach every other week. Big companies have their security breached, and information from millions of users or employees is leaked online. I used to worry about it with my team. But then I realized that worry was making me less money because I was less good at pus... |
In 2004 I figured something out I hoped the rest of the world would never figure out. I had quit my job (the only job I ever had, I worked there for 8 months right out of college) and was working from home. I worked my butt off. My wife was also at home with our little child and she started inviting me to go on walk... |
My OFS Julia writes: ----------------------- In the Philippines, there’s this custom called “Bayanihan” (pronounced as buy-uh-nee-hun), where people come together to lend a helping hand. It’s more than just people helping each other out. It’s about working together as a community. Bayanihan is what makes the Philippin... |
On Facebook, I (and by "I" I mean my OFS) get occasional comments from business owners who say they’ve tried outsourcing who insist that there aren’t any talented workers in the Philippines. “I’ve been outsourcing for years. Workers in the Philippines are crap! They’re only good for data entry jobs.” At the same time... |
In a previous email, I mentioned that the Philippines is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, that’s why they have a lot of active volcanoes there. One of those active volcanoes, Taal, has been showing increased activity in the past week and a half. They’ve had 31 earthquakes and 9 small phreatomagmatic (both magmatic ga... |
The first time I hired a designer I was actually hiring a programmer. This was 2007 and I didn't really know what I was doing. I just knew that I had found a really good programmer, and he also said he was a designer! I thought I had just struck gold! ("Nino", the Programmer/Designer I hired in 2007...he still wor... |
My wife came home from the gym the other day: "I got there at 9:15 and there were a bunch of parking spots. Just 3 weeks ago I couldn't even park on the street because so many people were there! Oh, how quickly people give up on their New Years resolutions." New Years Resolutions are a sorry thing. I stopped doing th... |
I love getting useful tips from other employers. I just got one from Vin Carrano when he responded to my email about using LastPass with my OFS. It turns out he was using LastPass too. This led to an email exchange about a problem some of you wrote to me about: giving your OFS access to your credit card when paying fo... |
My son came home from college this past weekend. He's having the time of his life. He skied 4 times the past week. I had to ask him "Are you going to class???" He says he has all A's in his classes...we'll see. Should you hire an OFS who’s still going to school? It depends. The minimum age required to create an On... |
Over the past 2 years it has become more and more apparent to me that I need help. For a long time I ran OnlineJobs.ph. I managed the developers. I thought through features. I thought through solutions. I pushed projects forward. I reminded people of their pending tasks. I kept track of things. And...I still run Onl... |
I've said before that I'm not a holiday/celebration kind of guy. Halloween is my least favorite day of the year. Valentines day is up there with it. I know not everyone feels this way...but for me... Yuck! But this email is more about relationships than it is about Valentines day and I found it quite interesting...... |
Did you know that the Philippines actually has two official languages: Filipino and English? I didn't really realize this until I went there in 2009 (my first...and only time there). I was so surprised that I took pictures while in Manila: Filipinos start learning English from pre-school until college. It’s a re... |
I got this question through my Facebook page: “Do you experience high turnover among Filipino Remote workers? We have gone through at least 30 of them in the last 3 years despite providing 13th-month bonus, health insurance, and higher wage than if they were to work through a staff agency company. We also do daily hud... |
I realized recently that I'm sarcastic with my kids. Too often I joke with them by being hard on them or making fun of them. It's not good. I had to take a step back and change my approach. Just be nice. I'm working on it...I fear it's a long road. One of the things people call me out on is that I’m too nice to my... |
Another Philippines holiday? Already? If I look at my calendar it feels like we (in the USA) have about one holiday per month. It feels like the Philippines has about 1 per week! They don't. But sometimes it feels that way. Tomorrow, Feb 25 is one of those days. The EDSA Revolution Anniversary commemorates the s... |
A while back I sent a newsletter about how my OFS had published a video that was horribly edited. The video started mid-sentence, had no context, and was just a bad edit. Yet, someone else (who didn’t do the edit) still published it. Why? A subscriber (thanks! Dennis Yu) replied with: The “mindless” activity is ... |
I think most people who have raised teenagers will agree that it's hard. There's almost always something that you don't see eye to eye about and the teenage years is when they're willing to push back. Right now we're having this about an iPhone. My 14yr old wants an iPhone and we don't want her to have one. Phones.... |
I have a lot of talented people around me. Not just in the Philippines, but at home and at church and with family. I keep telling my wife and kids that I'm consistently surprised at the talent of the people around me. There's a lot of talent I don't have...but others do. I’m not alone in this. Just a few days ago, ... |
I talked about this in a previous newsletter on how SMART goals help make changes happen. My daughters and I recently finished planning their race season (basically all of 2022) which includes some big SMART goals as well as some big objectives. (she blinked...but she ran off and got on her bike before I could retake... |
Ruben Kanya runs a successful podcast and agency doing $20,000+/month. He's super accomplished, and it shows in his work. His clients notice the quality and amount of work. They often ask how he manages to produce all that content and run an agency simultaneously. They don't realize it's his VAs doing the work. Rube... |
Getting poor work back from my team has been one of the pitfalls of turning tasks 100% over to my OFS. At times it has been really frustrating. When something gets left undone and it seems so obvious to me, I get frustrated. And I wasn't sure how to fix this...until now. About a month ago I wrote about a terrible v... |
I just got this email from Brian Wallace. He runs a small-IT company based in Miami. He’s interested in hiring an OFS for his business but is having trouble finding them. “Any tips or approaches on finding more specialized experts in technical areas? In my case it’s tech support, network engineering, the cloud - AWS &... |
Here's what "Clean up your play mess" looks like to an 8 year old boy: He wasn't careless or mindless about it...he told me "I did clean up...I'm still playing with those!" At least he thought it through. A while back I sent a newsletter about how my OFS had published a video that was horribly edited. The video st... |
This is the first email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes do mindless work. In the Philippines, fear often has the opposite effect as what you might expect. If you fear failure you’re likely to make more effort, do more, try harder. In the Philippines, it’s often the opposite. Fear says to them to do as litt... |
This is the 2nd email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes do mindless work. If you’ve never heard about Hofstede’s Power distance Index, it’s worth looking up. You’ll understand the mindlessness a lot better. The Philippines has a very high power-distance index. They respect authority. If they don’t have a cle... |
This is the 3rd email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. This one is often your (the employer) fault. Often, quantity is more visible than quality. An OFS knows that you’re going to see how many support tickets they responded to but you’re unlikely to see how well they responded. You're going... |
This is the 4th email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. Laziness. Sometimes, people just get lazy. Sometimes, this just happens. Some say the rising generation is lazy. Sometimes the work lends itself to laziness. Sometimes it happens as an OFS gets more comfortable with the work. For a lot, ... |
This is the 5th email of 5 about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. Surprisingly, I had quite a few different people talk about family with regards to mindless work. Like, when they don’t feel like they’re part of a family, they don’t care about the work. This translates to the culture of the company and how much th... |
My previous 5 newsletters have described cultural reasons why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. Today is about solutions. When I asked my team why this problem exists, I didn't ask for solutions, I just sought to understand the problem. A bunch of my team members also offered solutions. A lot of it has to do with decre... |
My newsletters from the past 2 weeks have taken a lot of work. They're all about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly (their thoughts) and how to prevent it (their ideas). Today is some of my personal experiences. A couple of solutions I’ve tried that have worked include giving people a title, creating job security, giv... |
I recently sent out a newsletter about hiring Filipino students. In that email, I discouraged hiring full-time Filipino students because they would need to prioritize their education. A college education is a big deal in the Philippines. If they don’t get that degree, they’ll never hear the end of it from their family... |
Bob Shape sent me a message through Facebook a few weeks back and showed me a YouTube Video: Adventures in Employment (in the Philippines). "Hi John Your podcast reminded me of this. It is unbelievable what a person has to go through just to get a job in the Philippines. No wonder people are looking for work on onli... |
My daughter who is a Junior in High School just took the ACT. Yuck. It's interesting that High School prepares you to take standardized tests. It doesn't prepare you to work a real job. And...come to think of it, neither does a college degree. Yes, it helps you. Yes, it teaches you to think. Yes, it prepares you t... |
Everyone says VAs can't meet with clients. "They'll mess things up." "Clients won't like it." "Clients will see the insides of your business, and they won't want to work with you." None of this is true. Ruben sent me this video recently and talked about the misconception that VAs can only do back-end work...they c... |
About a month ago I made Joven the manager of OnlineJobs.ph. He's managing and coordinating our design/dev/QA/marketing teams. Was he always capable of this? Heck no!!! I hired Joven in 2005. In 2007 he told me "Sir, when I started working for you I knew nothing! I was so scared you were going to get mad at me and ... |
Here's some Philippines culture we don't often talk about. Training a new employee in the Philippines is such an ingrained part of the culture that they have an acronym for it and government backing for it: OJT On-the-Job Training It's so prevalent in the Philippines that I've had applicants ask me "Is there OJT fo... |
Yesterday I talked about how training is so important for your OFS. - It shows you care about them - It shows you care about their success - It shows you care about your own business success - It sets expectations - It sets the stage for future work deliverables - It creates rock star OFS If you don’t want to create ... |
There are four (4) Philippine holidays this April. I know, it’s a lot. That’s why I’m sending out this email early, so you guys can get ready for what’s ahead. The first one would be Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) which falls on April 9 (Saturday). It’s a regular holiday (day off work, with pay if you're on salar... |
My newsletter regularly gets read by 20,000+ people. I get good, kind, insightful responses from people every day. But this one was nasty. Lisa responded to my email last week with: So, as a teacher, I completely disagree with your assessment of school. It absolutely does not just prepare you to take tests and give... |
I've written about how expensive it is to ship to the Philippines. But I understand how important it is to send something to your OFS to make them feel like they're part of the family. That's exactly what Danny had in mind when he sent me this email. Hi John, When we bring on staff or contractors in the U.S., we ofte... |
I’ve mentioned before that buying electronics and computers in the Philippines can be more expensive than buying them here in the US. But just how expensive is it? Let me give you a scenario. One of my OFS, Jam, likes Apple products. He’s been thinking about getting a new iPhone, and the one that caught his eye is th... |
I’m happy when I get thank you emails from business owners. But it warms my heart when I get emails from people who make it their life’s work to make the world a better place. “I do my podcast in the day "my time." He edits it and uploads it in the day "his time”, and it is ready to go in the morning I want it posted... |
I grew up near the beach in California. I grew up wearing flip flops. But it wasn't a cultural thing like it is in the Philippines. Filipinos really love their flip-flops. My OFS, Julia, explains why. ----- Like other Asian countries, we take off our shoes here in the Philippines before going inside the house. Once... |
The tropical storm "Agaton" entered the Philippines over the weekend. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581329/fwd-agaton-weakens-into-tropical-depression The good news is it's not a strong storm and it's weakening. The bad news is it brought in more rain than expected and is expected to make rainfall again. Some places... |
Every once in a while, my OFS team and I talk about our kids. Most of mine are older than most of theirs...but not all. I have 5, with a 19yr old and an 8 year old. That's a big span. My OFS Julia mentioned recently that her daughter would be starting high school this year. I thought this was kind of weird because I k... |
Ah yes, the 80/20 principle. Everyone has heard of it... 20% of the work produces 80% of results. It's true in almost everything we do. I worked all year to get my 8yr old to like skiing. - I made him ski almost every Saturday - I got him good skis - I let him pick the runs we ski - I forced him to ski steep gnarly... |
Should you be providing health insurance to your OFS? Here in the US, having health insurance is required. But it's not required for companies to provide it. In the Philippines, it's not legally required. Private health insurance is a perk for businesses that can afford it. However, Philippine companies must get th... |
Once upon a time I commuted to work. I was fresh out of college and rode my moped to work, 30 minutes each way. It only lasted 8 months. I quit the job and have worked at home running my own businesses ever since. I don't really know the pain of commuting. Others do. Before my OFS, Julia worked for me she worked ... |
Our last inbounds ski day was last week. Instead of being a warm spring day (like normal in late April), it was a stormy winter day. I loved it! I got some feedback from my wife: "I'm a fair weather skier! I don't like winter storms!" This is our 8yr old who got to ski with some older friends on the last day of the... |
If you're in the US, Daylight Saving time started a few weeks ago (unless you live in Hawaii or Arizona). Never really been a fan myself. In the summer months it doesn't get dark until 9:45pm at my house. Try putting kids to bed when it's light outside. It's almost a revolt every night. DST also bugs me because ti... |
Health insurance...yuck. This is one of my least favorite topics. If we (in the US) thought of it as an insurance product rather than as a charity that "must" pay for our health costs it would probably be different... ...but I don't want to get political here. I want to talk about the Philippines. One of the perks ... |
On May 9, 2022 (Monday), the Philippines will be holding a general election for the executive and legislative branches of the national and local government. What does this mean? It means that on May 9, the Philippines will be electing a new president. It also means that on May 9, your OFS may ask to take a day off. ... |
I spent last weekend in Fayetteville Arkansas at a bike race for my daughter. It was an important lead-up race to mountain bike national championships which are in July. Friends kept taking pictures of Addie on the big screen which they had at the start/finish line as she moved up in the race. She started 32nd. Aft... |
My favorite thing to do outside is to ski in the backcountry. It's exhilarating and requires both physical and mental strength and awareness. Last week we skied 3 steep lines of fresh powder. Part of skiing in the backcountry is managing risk. - What if someone gets hurt? - What if this slope avalanches? - What is a s... |
I previously talked about how training can help your OFS improve your life and business. After I sent out that newsletter, Billy responded. He talked about how he empowered your OFS and built a stronger work relationship with her. Aloha, John! I appreciate your emails, they are very helpful. In June it will be one ye... |
This is going to be weird. After I sent out the newsletter about balikbayan boxes, I got a great response from Edward. His wife is from the Philippines, so they regularly send balikbayan boxes to her relatives in the Philippines. He had a lot of good tips that I want to share with you if you ever plan to send a box to... |
Earlier this week I talked about security with OFS. Let's go a little deeper. Like, deep into your business with a bookkeeper. They're likely to see everything! Here's an email from Tatiana: Hello, I have hired my first OFS at the beginning of the year and it's going great. I want to hire another one to do bookkeep... |
I've always been driven by freedom. It's a primary motivator for me. Time freedom. Money freedom. Responsibility freedom. I always work towards systems which will provide me freedom. Like, if there’s a task that takes too much time I either outsource it or say no to it completely. Or, if there's a business opportuni... |
This email probably should have happened 2 weeks ago, but that's not how the Philippines does it. May 3rd was Eid'l Fitr or the end of Ramadan. It was a regular holiday in the Philippines (full day off for almost everyone). But they didn't announce it was a day off until two days before. I try to keep you updated on... |
There's some big stuff happening in my life and in the Philippines. 1. Philippines elections happened last week. This is a big deal, electing a new president. I started getting texts Monday night from my team about the outcome. More to come about this. 2. I'm taking my family to Europe (tomorrow) to ride bikes. We'... |
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... Sorry...I missed May the 4th. I went skiing. Deep powder. But really, a long time ago as I was going through my email on day I thought This is dumb. Why am I the one dealing with all this garbage. So I started teaching someone to deal with some of my email for me. W... |
My OFS, Jamie, sent me this link last week. It’s a news article from the American Journal of Transportation, and it mentions Onlinejobs.ph as one of the websites last-mile carriers use to help them with their labor shortage. https://ajot.com/news/last-mile-carriers-look-to-overseas-help-in-the-face-of-tight-jobs-mark... |
Filipinos don’t want to steal data. In my opinion, you’re more likely to have your data stolen by someone who’s working with you in your office. I know it’s a pretty bold claim. I have no empirical data to support this, just anecdotal, so you can take everything I’ve said here with a grain of salt. But in the 17-plu... |
I haven’t been in Paris for about 10 years. The last time I was here we saw all the big tourist sights. Notre Dame, Versailles, Eiffel Tower, Catacomsbs, sewers, museums, Seine… This time…not so much. I have my 5 kids with me. They weren’t interested in going into the Louvre. Notre Dame is closed for rebuilding (after... |
The Philippines just concluded its elections and it looks like Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is going to win. This was a really controversial election for them. Emotions are running high because there’s so much history with his family. Some are really happy about the results and some are really bummed about it. If you don't ... |
We’re on day 4 of 30 as we passed through the gates of the medieval city of Provins. I wondered what life must have been like 1000 years ago for the people here. The primary focus of daily life was still survival for most people. After 52 miles of riding survival was on our minds too! Interviewing people wasn’t… …b... |
I’m currently on a mini-retirement like Tim Ferris talks about in the 4 Hour Work Week. We started in Paris and cycled east. We moved into Germany and the Black Forest: The riding has been amazing. As has been the food! We’re here for a month and I didn’t bring a laptop! Just my phone. The first time I took a min... |
When we arrived at the Paris airport I really thought we were making a scene. 7 people, 5 bike bags, an obvious family all walking in a line together: It was a mild scene compared to when we put our bike “kits” on (“Kit” is what we call a cycling uniform): I didn’t realize the effect of 7 people all wearing these br... |
We do big projects all the time. These big projects can be improvements to Onlinejobs.ph. Or when I launch new products like OutsourcingLever.com, OneVAAway.com, OFSGuide.com, or VAsMadeEasy.com. Or just stuff that I've always wanted to try because I know they'd be good for business, like making a podcast. We have so ... |
I’m a typical dad. When we pull up to something interesting, I want to point it out to my kids and maybe explain it. Sometimes they want to hear it and sometimes they don’t. We’ve visited a number of cathedrals since we’ve been here in Europe. They’re pretty amazing. This time I was explaining to my kids what a conf... |
I believe when you do good in the world, it comes back to you 10-fold. We see this all the time but still, sometimes it's hard to believe. Also, as people, we have self-protective instincts. We want to make sure that we get our fair share and that nobody takes advantage of us. But when we go out of our way to show t... |
I got this great email from Kymn. She writes: Hi John, LOVE your newsletter! Quick question: 99% of my communication with my VA is via email. We used to meet on zoom frequently and now we do not anymore. Her work is still excellent. I’m wondering if it is a mistake not to connect with her face-to-face more often and... |
I’m on holiday right now. In the past week we rode our bikes from Germany to Switzerland to Austria. The Bodensee borders all 3 countries and is beautiful: This coming Sunday, June 12 is the Philippine Independence Day. It’s a regular holiday celebrated all over the country. It commemorates the Philippines’ independe... |
On our bike trip, we could only bring a small bag for our clothes. It’s called a saddle bag and fits under the bike seat. Here’s my wife’s bike fully packed: The rest of the bags are for food or gear or other essentials. The saddle bag is about 18” long and 6-8” in diameter. All we were able to bring is - 3 “kits” (th... |
Dan sent me this screenshot a few days ago. This guy, Marshall, shared his experience when he went to his dentist. Normally, you’d have a receptionist greet you and get your information for your appointment. Instead, Marshall was greeted by a virtual Filipino receptionist on video. I’m really impressed with this dent... |
Breakfast in Europe is different than breakfast in the US. In the US I typically eat pancakes or cereal or potatoes and eggs. Since we’ve been in Europe, I haven’t eaten any of those things for breakfast. My breakfast almost every day has looked like this: Here’s what Julia wrote about breakfast in the Philippines... |
I didn’t grow up watching “The Sound of Music” like my wife did, but I’ve seen it a number of times since we’ve been married. As we climbed these mountains in Austria I just couldn’t help but sing “The hills are alive, with the sound of music…” over and over again. These mountains really are magical. One of the thin... |
Last Sunday, a volcano in the Philippines erupted, resulting in the evacuation of around 1,500 families. The volcano, Mount Bulusan, is in Sorsogon (Bicol Region). It’s part of the southernmost region of Luzon. It’s about 320 miles (517 km) away from Manila and just 43 miles (55km) away from Albay, the capital of that... |
After reaching the pass the other day we had a long fun decent. At the bottom was an amazing river which we followed uphill for a long ways. Maybe 20 miles. The end miles were steep…just like the beginning miles were steep. Hard. After sleeping we didn’t really know what the ride looked like moving forward but we quick... |
The Philippines has a long history and understanding some of it helps understand the people. Before the Spanish colonized the Philippines in the 1500s, it already had a rich history of writing using an indigenous alphabet called baybayin. If you want to learn more about it, you can read about it: https://en.wikipedia.... |
A lot of people know that boxing is big in the Philippines because of Manny Pacquiao. Boxing is a big sport in the Philippines. There are boxing gyms all over the country. Whenever Manny fights, the crime rate in the Philippines virtually drops to zero But you know what’s bigger than boxing in the Philippines? Basketb... |
While my family and I were biking across Europe, I’d check my emails and Basecamp on my phone. It’s work, but it’s only a few minutes every other day. The best part is I’m able to do it in places with the most amazing views. This is one of the good things about having a remote team. You can work anywhere. Now that p... |
I get emails like this from a lot of people. But I’m featuring Mitchell’s email here because it also gave a great suggestion. Hey John! I've listened to every podcast episode you have, I love them, short and sweet and to the point which I appreciate it. I would love to hear some episodes on compensation for OFS's. I k... |
Voting brings a lot of emotion. During the last election cycle my wife and I had some different views. We had a number of heated conversations. Nothing ever got out of control...but it wasn't our normal. We ended up coming really close together and having really similar views in the end. That's rarely the outcome. ... |
Brett sent me this email in response to the previous email about having regular meetings with your OFS. Hey John! I meet with my VA every 6 to 8 weeks. These meetings are not particularly productive, but that is not the point. Systems and quick communication will always be more productive than conversations which easi... |
A few years ago my grandparents (my dad's side) died at 99 and 100 years old. They died a few months apart, both of them still at home. They never went to a care facility. I don't hope to live that long, but I certainly have some long living genetics. This is kind-of morbid, but I have a death plan. I don't want to... |
I just got back from cycling across Europe for a month. No laptop. That's right. I didn't take my laptop with me. "But John...I've been getting your emails 4 times per week for the past month. I've seen your ads on Facebook and Youtube. How?" Guess. Yep...OFS. Running my own business was always about lifestyle f... |
Today is Independence Day in the USA. I'm at Lake Powell. I've often found that holiday mornings are some of the most productive times for me. Nobody expects normal work. It's a good time to spend an hour working on your business rather than in. Spending 10 minutes posting that job post that you've been putting off w... |
This email contains free training to give to your OFS. I'm sending this out because it has been requested so many times. Training an OFS sucks. I know you don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. It's not fun. It takes time. It requires you to think. It's 1000% effective and will return on your time investment o... |
While on our bike trip I heard about inflation all over the place. Gas is $8-9/gallon! Inflation is affecting everybody, including your OFS. I got this email from Tiffany. Hi John, Sorry to bother you on your holiday, but I got a rather urgent note from my VAs today about their cost of living increases, and wonder ... |
“John, can you just recruit for me? The fact that you made OneVAAway tells me you have it down to a science. I really don’t have the time to do it myself. Let me just pay you to recruit people for me.” I get a version of that message in my email and social media at least once a week. I always give the same answer. No... |
Late last year, a typhoon hit Cebu, which affected several of my OFS, mostly our developers. One of the OFS who was affected is Mark, who works as a web designer and front-end developer for us. Cebu is 2nd largest IT hub in the Philippines. A lot of people move there to gain experience working for tech and start-up co... |
One of the hardest things to do when you get back from vacation is putting away everything that you brought with you. There’s also the cleaning and the organizing. It’s so much work that sometimes you feel like you need a vacation after coming home from vacation. We all clean our homes. It’s a universal thing. We all ... |
Wow, I didn’t really expect a lot of people to respond to a newsletter about breakfast. I’m not super passionate about food. For me, food is fuel. I eat to keep myself healthy. My wife says I don't have a "relationship with food". It's just something necessary for me. But some have really strong feelings about it. ... |
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