Day, a Filipino bookkeeper for a Brooklyn construction company, walks through her home in Batangas while explaining how remote work let her save for a house renovation, buy a family van, and travel internationally. She handles QuickBooks and proposals for projects like electrical installations on the Queens Midtown Expressway.
Welcome to Santa Tomas Batangas. This is our house. Come on in. Hi, my name is Day. I'm an online Filipino specialist working as an accountant bookkeeper for a construction company based in Brooklyn, New York. But first I'm gonna show you our van. So this is our van. This is my first big purchase when I started working online. I love planting vegetables. This is the bell pepper lettuce. And so I have calamansi. Welcome to our living room. As you can see here, there's a laptop. I work here most of the time, but our main office is upstairs. My employer is a construction company specializing in electricals. They install wirings for panels, lights and outlets. Welcome to our bedroom on this side. This is where I work. I have been working for my employer for four years now. I will go to QuickBooks because right now I'm working on a proposal for a construction project along Queen's Midtown Expressway. For our daily routine, we wake up around 6am While my husband is preparing for our breakfast, I would feed our dog. This is our kitchen. This used to be the backyard, but we had the house extended. Our dining area. This is special because growing up we used to be. We used to have a table which is always on the side of the wall because the space is limited. And now this table, you can all occupy all the sides on our refrigerator. This is our souvenir from our trip. You would see London, Taiwan, Thailand. So right outside this is my husband's bike. And beside it this is our 400cc motorcycle that we use to travel in the expressway. 4pm we walk around the village together with our dog and buy some milk tea. So this is the milk tea store that we normally buy. How's the milk beef? Oh good. This is the salted caramel. And this is my favorite. You should try it next time. So we have arrived in our village. This is actually the pastry where we walk away. And over there is Mount Mahiling. We normally walk around this area for our daily routine as an exercise. Since working online, a lot has changed in my life. I was able to save up for the renovation of my parents house. And then soon after I was able to buy a van for the whole family. And then eventually I was able to afford the extension of our house. We have also been able to travel to various countries including England, Ireland, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mahal among many others. Lastly, because we are now financially stable, we are hoping to start a family soon. It.
