Well, comfortable maybe, if this article from INQ7 is to be believed. The story is about the opportunities created by businesses that outsource work to the Philippines. It seems that one group of potential employees is doing particularly well: People who speak a foreign language other than English. Such as, say, Japanese.
Nakamura is optimistic that Philippine outsource service providers would eventually grow enough to accommodate more Japanese clients, not just because of the presence of many Japanese in the Philippines but because of many Filipinos’ obsession with Japanese animé culture.
“It’s a fact that many young Filipinos are learning Japanese because they want to understand Japanese animé and read manga (Japanese comic books). These people could start turning their language obsession into something financially productive,” Nakamura said.
Yeah, and then maybe they could also pick their laundry up off the floor and call their mother once in a while.
