This YouTube testimonial features Hershafe Saloma (a 29‑year‑old online Filipino specialist from Santo Tomas City, Batangas) describing her journey from growing up in Gamay, Northern Samar — a remote hometown (about eight hours from the nearest airport) — to becoming an online content writer. She details early training running her family’s sari‑sari store and fisheries, her past work as an English teacher, and a major client project: creating an Amazon‑selling course of around 200 videos (10–15 minutes each) over six months. Since then she has written and uploaded product descriptions and now manages three Amazon stores for that client. She has worked with her current employer for two years. Hershafe credits Onlinejobs PH with enabling financial independence, better work–life balance, and daily fulfilment.
Questions this video answers
29 years old.
Santo Tomas City, Batangas, Philippines.
Gamay, Northern Samar — described as eight hours from the nearest airport.
Around 200 videos, each 10–15 minutes long, produced over six months.
Three stores.
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There are no ATMs in our area since it's very remote, we don't have banks there. Instead of the ATM or the machine itself releasing the money, it would be my mom from her drawer. Hi, my name is Hershafe saloma. I am 29 years old. I live in Santo Tomas city, Batangas. I am an online Filipino specialist and I work as a writer. I write content for courses, emails for email marketing, scripts for YouTube and TikTok, product descriptions as well for Amazon stores and I also write for social media. I've been working with my current employer for two years now. I search for copywriting position because I actually worked in the past as an English teacher in my previous university. The first project that my client asked me to do was a full blown course about selling in the Amazon platform. The course is composed of around 200 videos, 10 to 15 minutes long in a span of six months. After that project he trusted that I can manage his product descriptions, writing it, uploading the product itself in his Amazon stores and until now I am already managing three stores for him. So I grew up in Gamay, Northern Samar. It's actually a very far flung area, eight hours away from the nearest airport. My family actually owns a one stop shop for everything that you might need from food on your pantry to your table, even for your health needs. So we actually are a mini drugstore in the Philippines. That's what you call a sari sari store. We are also into fisheries. So at one point my family owned boats. Right now what's actually booming in our family business is the ATM card swiper. There are no ATMs in our area since it's very remote, we don't have banks there. We have this little gadget where you, I think they call that a POS system or something where you insert your card and then you would type in your PIN code the amount of money that you're going to in cash. Instead of the ATM or the machine itself releasing the money, it would be my mom from her drawer. Despite the family business earning a good income each month, we actually didn't live a life of luxury because that income would be used to support the extended family which would total around 10, 15 people. That would include the uncles, the grannies and the cousins. My mom is a very entrepreneurial person. Her helpers in her saree saree store are her kids. So on top of making sure that I'm getting good grades, I was also tasked to man the sari saree store. I thought then when I was young that it was normal. But later on when I would see my classmates, you know, bonding after school, but I am not allowed to, you know, join them. The rest when my knees are hurting or my hips are feeling heavy from standing too long, when that realization hit, I felt like I'm trapped. Despite feeling trapped, actually, it was a great training ground for me having that first hand experience in managing my mom's and my dad's multiple small businesses on this side and our main store. I was trained in accounting, in inventory management, in sales talk, in customer service or or client handling everything that I am effectively doing right now in my job. It's also the byproduct of my training in my younger years. When my employer was looking for a video editor, I suggested that my husband would apply. If given confidential data or information by my employer, we take it with utmost confidentiality. We do not share it with anybody. It's just between the three of us and if requested that I only know I wouldn't share it with my husband. Onlinejobs PH has impacted our life in such a way that we are fulfilled every day. We wake up not really stressed or worried. We actually have more time together as husband and wife. I'm really happy and fulfilled with the tasks that I'm doing right now because it also speaks within my passion so it doesn't really feel like I'm working. Onlinejobs PH helped us to live independently without anybody supporting us. It has allowed us to sustain a lifestyle that that is peaceful and really fulfilling in all aspects.
