hey hey testing testing test test there we go okay so welcome everyone we are live I am just G to drop some notes um yeah so I here in dumag and uh just waking up it's um it's good
to see everybody it's uh Sunday morning here in Doom meetti I'm still having my coffee and trying to wake up uh so a little bit out of it but yeah otherwise doing well and uh me just see if
I can get the link try to share out the link to this live stream super excited with um the growth of the chat hey Tony welcome I'm so glad to see you here I hope this is a convenient
time for you Tony I just want to give you a heads up that sometimes I'd really like to live stream but there's copyright music in the background or there's uh it's particularly noisy in the background and so I
feel like the uh you know sometimes the quality could be impacted right I want to develop a good I want to deliver a good experience for you as the um not only as a viewer but also a a
member but yeah great yeah that's good to know um yeah so um how are you doing Tony how is uh guess it's fall weather for you uh there in North America it's still super hot here and uh yeah
it still feels super hot here I thought it might cool off next month or in December but I'm talking to some friends here and uh they mentioned it doesn't really seem to cool off a lot I do apologize
by the way for background noise it's just uh it's very noisy I'll just yeah very noisy um I'm I'm doing okay uh I'm kind of tired you know um yeah I'm kind of tired and it is pretty hot
um there are you know I don't know there are some things that I need to do as far as adjusting but part of it is just working really hard Tony I I should clarify there I've been working really
hard on the channel trying to uh put a lot of effort in as far as just like collabing meeting up with people um so Sunday seems to be the day when it all accumulates it kind of hits me
how tired I am and then Sunday tends to be a bit more of a chill day for me uh and then I uh you know I do a little bit of English tutoring and Sunday evening but uh the
place itself kind of slows down traffic seems to not be as bad on Sundays and um yeah it's a good day to just kind of chill out a bit um yeah yeah so I'm I had a job interview
a couple weeks ago or H last last week and just slept through it uh it was at 2: a.m. and they pushed for that time it was just not a me and time for me uh so now I'm
shifting to trying to do my interviews in the morning but I'm also thinking about trying to go full-time on YouTube uh my channel is growing really fast I'm figuring out different ways to kind of expand uh you know
monetization efforts and um yeah it's I don't know it's I just don't know that I really want to go back home of course A lot of people are that position where they prefer to live over here um and
yeah just trying to sort that out um I am so this week I've got some exciting news I am going to be filming a documentary I'm not filming it I'm going to be I guess featured in it uh
so I'll have more details when that's released I'll be sure to share a link with everybody uh this is something I'm excited about they reached out to me like a week or two ago now like a week ago
and um originally they were going to film in Manila and I asked hey you know can you fly me up to Manila I'd be happy to do it but you know helping me meet me halfway with the cost
of the flight and they said well you know what I think we should come to doag Getti so they're going to come down here and we're going to film we're going to spend like I guess a half half
day of filming here in dagate and yeah um I'll have more details on that after it's done I think it's going to take some time for them to edit it and all that uh but it's a really you
know it's a really exciting opportunity and I think it'll be interesting I think I'll learn a lot from it and uh yeah I mean I I would kind of prefer to Pivot my career toward media anyway so you
know I don't know exactly how I'd go about doing that but uh I prefer working in media over working in sales or other types of corporate jobs back in America uh it doesn't really feel like work to me
other people see it as work I've met a lot of people who've told me I could never be on camera I could never take all the Flack or the trolling or all that kind of stuff and no it's
whatever I mean I got a thick skin I don't really uh you know that stuff doesn't really bother me so um it's yeah there's just a lot of uh a lot of opportunity hopefully for me to Pivot toward
working more on media because I just think it's more interesting it's it's more fun um there's still a lot of opportunity to you know build a career or that kind of thing but uh yeah I I suspect that
you know I may be washed out of the tech industry I'm not for certain on that that but like I've had a bunch of interviews and no offers maybe things will improve after the upcoming US election uh it
could be that a lot of companies are hesitant you know to make big commitments in the way of hiring until after they get a sense of what the next four years will look like uh but if I don't
get something you know eventually I've got to you know go more onto YouTube I've also looked at seasonal jobs so one of the things that I've thought about and I've met a few people that do this is they
go and they work in the US for six months uh and then they go travel abroad for the other six months right so they alternate between earning half the year in the US where the wages are quite high
and then taking their savings saving up all that money and then going to other uh countries that offer a higher quality of life uh I don't like it more or less than Thailand Doom Hower I think it's just
a tradeoff um the Philippines and Thailand are very different from one another uh Thailand I like the food I like the uh culture I like the conveniences here I like the nature uh I like the English and I
like um I think I have more EXP cat friends here so I think the but yeah I would say the nature is a big one I mean I walked to uh a place to go snorkeling down the street
from where I'm living and uh that was wonderful I got to see all kinds of beautiful coral and all kinds of fish um many different species of fish I didn't get to see any sea turtle so I'm hoping
to go back there with some buddies maybe in the next week or two we'll go back there uh maybe next weekend and maybe the week or maybe the weekend after and go and see uh hopefully some sea turtles
I may have to go during the week though I may have to go out there on my own during the week when there's fewer people there uh because then I think you're you have higher likelihood of seeing some
of those sea turtles that I really want to see um but yeah Doom how I mean it's a tradeoff you know there's it's I think your value for money for accommodation is higher in Thailand I think most people
would agree on that that they spend x amount on accommodation uh in Thailand they're going to get more bang for their Buck uh compared to here um I would say also the Philippines oh hey wow good to see
you good to see you Paul H welcome welcome Paul is a wonderful guy the two people on here that um that haven't watched this channel go check it out he's really a wonderful friend and very feel very fortunate
to um to have met him and and all the the wonderful characters here in dag Getti and the two crazy people um ronell good to see you ronell yeah I'm doing well this morning it's uh it's a beautiful
day it's it's gorgeous outside the sun and the palm trees and it's uh yeah it's going well um it's going really well I feel very fortunate to have found do it's it's it's um I don't know I like
it because you get some of the provincial feeling but then you also have some of the city amenities you got lots of great food here you know I've talked to friends that have lived in other parts to the
Philippines and they say you know the Philippines is beautiful in general and it's gorgeous country my opinion it's the most beautiful country in the world but there's other parts of the country that while they are very beautiful it's
just not that easy to find good food so if you're he in dag Getti you've got tons of options there's Japanese Chinese of course Filipino food Korean food Indian food um American style food like that's a big one
that a lot of people really I think are attracted to D meetti about is hey I'm not going to have to make the uh you could say the tradeoffs oh you're heading to TomTom okay thank you for the
heads up Paul um yeah I'll keep keep that in mind I may come down I got to get back here this evening but uh thank you for the heads up to Paul I really appreciate that and um yeah
I hope you have a a wonderful time if I'm not able to make it down there I hope you have a wonderful time um either way yeah yeah it's uh it's a really nice spot um Tony says so
Landing a virtual job while living in the Philippines isn't something that's on the agenda so the challenge there Tony uh is that with the virtual jobs if they know that you're not living in the US they want to
pay much less right so they don't want to comp you in the same way that they'd comp an American which you know teach their own each business has to make those determinations but I'd work just as hard right
for me if I've got a job I take it really seriously and I want to maximize value for my employer uh I know some people disagree some people would call me a loser for having that mindset but I
look at like the harder I work the more I learn uh so even if I'm not necessarily getting the most out of them or whatever I'm usually learning more if I'm engaged in giving it my all uh so
I would be working just as hard as I'd work in America but I wouldn't have the compensation so the the value of so the value of uh working in the US is that sorry there's this screaming kid in
the background um the value of working in the US maybe I can take this outside yeah going go outside with this should help some so the value of working in the US is that the salaries are super high
and your cost of living is high but not so extreme so you get this advantage of uh basically being able to put away a lot of money and so that's the that's why it's worthwhile to uh you know
to work back home right but if I'm working super hard but I'm not able to pad by investment it kind of defeats the purpose not to say I don't work hard on my channel it just doesn't feel like
work it's so much fun it's so enjoyable uh I get to meet so many interesting and cool people uh it it's I do it for free right so that's kind of the difference between this and and working in
uh sales back home is that most people would not do sales work for free most people do not want to be under the uh requirements of a quota they don't want to be having to uh perform at that
level every single day day in and day out um there's days on my channel like I there's let's put it this way there's things I like about doing this Channel and there's things I don't like about doing this
channel but the more success I have the more I can focus on the things that I enjoy doing if you ask me what I enjoy doing I like talking to interesting people the channel enables me to do that
Crouch down here a bit um the channel enables me to do that right so the channel enables me to talk to all kinds of interesting people and meet really cool people I've gotten to meet some people that have
really helped me out in my journey people like Paul who joined in the chat a bit people like Mike uh you know these guys have really helped me a lot through their content creation um and to be able
to like meet guys like this who you know they they provide an alternative right a lot of us back home are unhappy and they're showing you step by step how they live what you might call an alternative lifestyle
um and I think that's so empowering ing for people who don't really fit in and I never really felt like I fit in back home so uh as far as parts of it that I don't like I would
say editing is just timec consuming I don't hate editing it just is really time consuming and it can feel really grindy because you're you're watching in effect you're watching a video that you've already recorded over and over and
over again trying to go through it and uh it just you know it's it's not the most fun plus I like socializing and so sitting down to doing it on my own now the upside of editing is you
learn you learn a lot of techniques you learn how to make better uh content you have to really examine your content okay this is working this is not working I'm messing up the audio which is more important than
the video video quality but uh yeah it's let's see uh Richard says I will have my gear for snorkeling in November we can go any day uh hi Paul yeah yeah that sounds great Richard I'm I'll probably end
up extending through November I really want to make it down to Buchanan Province so uh I have a buddy a Filipino friend that lives down there in well he works in badan he lives in KAG and deoro but
he goes back and forth for work and Buchanan is gorgeous it's uh it's up in the mountains so it's a bit cooler it's not as like well known as bagio yet I maybe I shouldn't have said anything well
anyway it's not as well known as bagio or even like Valencia here in D MTI Valen is very popular for people that they want a little bit cooler weather um but you know badan being in mind now it
tends to scare some people away I'm Not Afraid something happens something happens I'm living my dream and if it comes to an end I'm just grateful for the ride but uh certainly some people don't have that same thought
process as I do um but yeah yeah Richard that sounds great there's a lot of wonderful snorkeling around here and there's so much to see and and do here do MTI offers so much um there's there's to me
you've got City conveniences you've got natural attraction c s you've got a lot of cool foreigners and a lot of cool Filipinos and you get you meet Filipinos here from all over the country like my host family uh
the mom in the family is from Zamboanga and the father in the family is from Bola so you meet people from different parts of the country and it's just uh it's to me it just punches far above its
weight like it's got such an international feeling yet still feels like a small town um you've got City conveniences and yet you've got some of the laid-back atmosphere of being in a province I I still don't quite understand
it but to me it it reminds me of Cusco it reminds me of changai uh really really nice maybe I may even like it a little bit better than uh those places in some some elements but we'll step
back inside because there's maybe maybe it's calmed down a little bit in here I'm r the top floor of this house and it's uh yeah oh it's nice to uh nice to have some options there uh Gerard says
free sales um yeah so sales it's it could be really stressful right you're under uh a quota you're trying to perform there's a lot of days in sales that aren't fun you're getting tons of rejection and Paul and
I talked a bit about this but you're getting the managers are are stepping on you and the customers are stepping on you and you're kind of this punching bag in sales uh and I don't like that element of
sales I like talking to people I think people are interesting and in some sales worlds that I've had the customers were awesome but the management was just I don't know I don't know I I don't fully understand it
I get it like somehow I get some aspects I know they're under stress they're under pressure they've got Financial Obligations I don't know you know how they save or don't save their money but um yeah the good thing
about sales is that I learned a lot I learned how to communicate with people uh which I was pretty socially isolated growing up so I didn't really learn a lot of social skills I just was kind of isolated
for various reason grew up in a narcissistic household uh which resemble Cults if you're familiar with narcissism the environment becomes kind of cult-like uh and you know it's it's like being in a high demand religion or you know
has elements of coercive control don't do this don't do that a lot of absurd rules and so you're not quite fully socialized I think when you grow up in an environment like that but when you're in sales and
you're having to talk to people for five six seven eight hours a day uh you will learn to soci even unless you've got a major issue your social skills will improve you'll learn about communication you'll learn about people's
motivations and you better understand how to deal with people and that's helped a lot with my channel I credit sales with helping me grow this channel because you start to you learn one of the things you learn in
sales is how to ask questions and for me asking you guys questions and asking friends questions is really accelerated my learning Accel at my capabilities it's um yeah it just made me a lot more efficient it's made me
a lot happier I understand people a lot better uh I could go on and on about the benefits um of working in in sales especially if you're working in like high value ad sales where you're dealing with intelligent
salespeople some of the smartest people I've ever met in my life or in sales jobs um there's this stereotype or critique that oh sales people down that's not the case at all there's a low barrier to entry to
sales so technically anybody could really work in sales but as you move up and you deal with higher ranked or more experienced sales professionals there's a strong like unique intelligence that comes with that kind of work being able
to handle people being able to uh you know kind of push Co like I can direct conversations in different directions now learning how to take control of a conversation like hey this is where we're going uh and I
could turn it on and off sometimes I turn it off like at a conversation did the most recent video I put out with my buddy will uh he had he want he haded some things he wanted to talk
about and I thought well we can revisit this conversation where I take him through that interview process I put questions to him to uh draw information out right because some people like they just they might think what they
have to talk about is boring or dumb or not relatable and you as the salesperson or you as the interviewing person have to evaluate what is my audience interested in and and what kind of directions are going to
be intriguing for people and so you know do I would I want to work in sales forever I don't know I mean I think YouTube is in a way sales right like you've got a GU guy like Paul
who he's got this strong history of sales and his videos are a product but essentially he's trying to put out the best product he can and sell on it like hey do I have a compelling story here hey
am I providing you with value is this interesting is this insightful is this something that's going to um you know is this something that's going to be worthwhile for you uh Tony asks so the employers ask you to
declare where you are located you can't do the VPN and don't ask don't tell well it gets tricky because if they catch you boom you could be done so I've heard of some people trying to pull that and
then as soon as the employer has their uh you know finds out like one day they don't turn you don't turn on the bpn or one day the bpn drops out you have a power outage uh then all
of a sudden they find out and they're asking you hey RIT system just flagged you're coming in from the you're working from the Philippines and you didn't get approval for that so some people have actually gotten the AXS
for that and uh I I the ideal this is my personal opinion the ideal is building up a reputation with a company and then asking for permission but a lot of them because of tax reasons will want you
to stay in the US so that's part of how the US controls people is they're like okay we want your tax dollars not only that we're going to make it really complex for you to leave uh because if
you leave you're not paying us taxes right you're not paying your property tax in the US unless you own rental real estate uh you're not paying sales tax you're not paying uh sin taxes all these taxes they want
to collect they're not collecting from xat um and so you know in a Perpetual growth economy they really don't want people to leave especially High earners that pay a bulk of the taxes in the US uh because there's
this misconception that like rich people pay taxes and poor people pay taxes it's really the middle class people that pay the most taxes poor people don't have much to tax and rich people have lots of loopholes uh in
the United States and so it's really the middle class people who earn maybe High earners uh that you know have a high income uh from earned income so not from investment income uh not from government subsidies or anything
like that but people who earn say 15K a year in California you might think oh they're rich they're rich you ain't Rich making 150k in California you may not probably still not being able to buy a house um
you're probably living in a small apartment um you know you need maybe two people making that you're going to do pretty well but it's you know you're still renting you're probably still in an apartment like I uh through
an like through a friend an like a friend of a friend basically is a couple and they earn they have two people making close to that amount and they still rent an apartment um in California so the rich
people own assets and the tax rates so yeah I'm getting kind of long-winded Tony but uh yeah they have a lot of incentives to stop you from working abroad uh because you know if part of it does impact
the earning potential of Americans and if a whole bunch of Americans can't earn a strong standard of living anymore uh that could cause more instability in the United States um so yes it's possible it's more with the programming
if I got more into programming I could take contract based work but even then there's a ton of Outsourcing going on right now uh there's a ton of Outsourcing where companies are firing a bunch of American Staff and
they're hiring in uh Poland they're hiring in um you know I don't know Taiwan other countries where they are skilled people but you could pay a lower wage those countries may not have India for example they might may
not have the same level of worker protections that they have in uh the United States and so yeah I mean there's you know there's no shortage of greed in America uh and they'll do whatever it takes for that
to increase that bottom uh that bottom line that dollar and you know I don't blame them humans have evolved to control resources uh We've evolved in a world with finite resources where food is limited shelter is limited by
the way 21 people watching please give us the thumbs up it helps to boost Us in the algorithm but yeah I mean it's it's till as old this time I think everybody is selfish so people are just doing
whatever they they can is it ideal I don't think so is it just I don't think so but uh yeah um Lincoln Emerson says jumped in on editing an answer I tend to over edit then I get bummed
that nobody sees how much I did yeah I I've had to pull back a little bit on my editing I've gotten some tips from a couple of my friends that are YouTubers here I mean Paul has it great
you look at his videos he does minimal editing and he just knocks it out of the park and his audience doesn't expect hardcore editing so yeah uh that's that's definitely over editing could be a thing um Lincoln says
I'd rather do commercial Commercial Roofing again in sales that's pretty bad yeah I've heard bad stuff about Commercial Roofing cars says my dad had a good career in sales sold mattresses for Burlington said you need to believe in
what you're selling yeah I agree cars you really have to believe that it's a quality product and that it's going to make people's lives better if they're able to acquire or to purchase that product Liam says good morning
po good morning Liam welcome to the channel good morning po um Gerard says sell us about MTI travel around restaurants malls and entertainment show me why Philippines is better than Thailand and make it bucker too I don't know
that the Philippines is better than Thailand um I think that they're different right it really depends on your priorities uh to me the challenge of filming out in public in dag Getti is multifold one copyright music there's copyright
music all over this town people like to play music uh that is copyright restricted so I had uh an acquaintance of mine down on the boulevard a couple months back oh I'm going to do a live stream on
the boulevard right sounds wonderful it's a beautiful part of the city it's gorgeous it's free for the public anybody can go down there and enjoy and I may have to cut it because copyright music just started coming in
uh yeah I I may have to cut this stream because somebody literally just started playing copyright music uh around the corner for me um so maybe we could do a few more minutes but yeah I can't that that's
see that's the principal issue um Gerard is is that uh you know so you you go out in public and you think oh yeah I could just walk down the street and show videos no no you people start
playing copyright music boom you're you're getting a violation uh and you get enough violations your channel is done um let's see if I can oh we'll pop right here this seems like it'll be enough to um but yeah
um yeah I mean you get several copyright violations Gerard and your Channel's done so in the malls also play copyright music um there's tons of ambient noise I mean there is tons of ambient noise that you have to
be mindful of here that it it's not easy there's there's a reason you don't see a lot of vloggers here in the Philippines um outside of like remote or rural islands like just walking around town it's just not
practical to do that you're going to have so much ambient noise that people are not going to be able to hear anything uh it's going to be unpleasant to listen to you're going to hear loud Motors you're going
to hear construction you're going to hear angle grinders uh you're going to hear people screaming and yelling um not in a bad way they're just excited and they're having a good time and they're enjoying their lives like uh
I've you know being here has helped me adjust to uh noise but as far as the viewer experience goes then it can be you know it's it does it doesn't matter where you go here it's one of the
most population Den countries in the world and a lot of people in the Philippines they associate noise with having fun right so if you're having fun you want to express yourself uh verbally or a audibly and uh it's
it's not a negative and it's a lot better than the US where normally when people are being noised in the US it's because they're having some kind of upstairs crisis like in California you see that a lot uh
I've had neighbors that have been fighting with each other in California so it's not the same it's not the same um and once again it's it's not I mean it doesn't bother me so much that I'll leave but
as far as from a viewer perspective it's I basically what what I'd have to do Gerard is I'd have to go around recording stuff and then mute it and then record audio on top of it and that's doable
right but I don't think it gives the same viewer experience that you have um I just don't think it's the same viewer experience that you have when you can actively engage and like hey you know check it out
you know this and that uh I have no idea how certain bloggers do it but yeah that's why you see so many vloggers doing videos in their Studio at home doing Vlogs from uh you know certain establishments that
may be a little bit quieter some what you could call high-end establishments uh and it's yeah I mean it's just uh it's just it's just something that comes here and so if you're noise averse it's something that you
really have to adjust to but um yeah guys well I I think I'm going to wrap up because they're I think they're starting to do karoke um thank you so much for watching but uh yeah I'm just going
to go ahead and and wind down here because the music is getting louder and I don't want to get a a copyright issue so yeah thank you so much everybody sorry I had to cut it short but as
you could tell this is why uh I am Limited at as far as being able to live stream uh here in the Philippines thanks so much everybody I'll see you next time
