As for my mother, I don't think Mom wants to go home to the Philippines. I mean, really -- who wants to work in a hospital with sixty patients, and there's only you on duty? On top of it, you only get paid eight thousand -- in pesos. Wait, maybe it's ten thousand now. Regardless, it's not enough. It will never be enough, especially when you're sending your kid to college. It's not like they have educational grants in the Philippines like here.
My mother is well-paid here, and she loves her nursing profession. Forty dollars per hour is no joke. Convert it to Philippine peso, and it's what? Sixteen hundred pesos per hour? She makes sixty thousand pesos five days a week. And that's with a minimum of four to a maximum of six patients during that shift. It's an eight-hour shift, including a ha
