At 67 America Was Done With Me. So I Left for the Philippines

👉 https://ruthinthephilippines.com 📖 MY BOOK — "Still Somebody" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Seven true stories of women written off at home — who started over in the Philippines. Plus the honest $1,150-a-month budget behind it. $27 · instant PDF. At sixty-seven, after forty years welding steel and a hundred job applications that all came back the same way — too old — I flew to the Philippines with what was left of my father's tools, and two years on, a boy young enough to be my grandson calls me Boss and means it. 00:00 — The Boy Who Calls Me Boss 00:45 — A Hundred Applications, All 'Overqualified' 02:56 — Sold My Father's Table for a Plane Ticket 03:56 — You've Made a Terrible Mistake, Old Man 06:19 — Holding a Pair of Pliers Like a Kid Holds a Blanket 07:38 — The Soup That Felt Like a Hand on My Shoulder 11:18 — Shaking My Head at Strangers 13:58 — Trued Better Without My Flat Table 16:38 — Stack of Dimes 18:57 — The Weld That Wasn't Deep Enough 25:27 — Eleven Fifty a Month, and I Earn on Top 27:02 — The Iloilo Way Beats My Way 29:43 — Two Boys Half My Size Carried Me Down the Stairs 37:08 — You Eat at My Table Now My name's Hank. Forty-some years I welded steel in Gary, Indiana — TIG, stick, mig, whatever the job wanted — and Gary paid me back for it by dying under me right along with the steel. After sixty I put in for jobs I could've done half asleep, and the phone just stopped ringing. Something north of a hundred applications. Overqualified, they called it. A word they use so they don't have to say the real one. I had a little put by, not much. I sold the truck, the good tools, even my dad's welding table, which I about cried over, and I bought a seat on a plane to a city on the far side of the world called Iloilo. Sixty-seven years old, and I'd never before been farther from home than a fishing trip up to Canada. This is where my story really begins. Footage Attribution: Portions of the video footage used in this production are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. The original footage has been edited, color graded, trimmed, or combined with additional footage, and paired with original narration and storytelling to create a new transformative work. Credit for all original creators is provided below in accordance with the CC BY license. Video Credit: "Walking the 2nd Most Densely Populated District in Manila Philippines [4K HDR]" by Krypto Trekker Source:    • Walking the 2nd Most Densely Populated Dis...   Video Credit: "Exploring Masville Parañaque Metro Manila Philippines [4K HDR]" by Krypto Trekker Source:    • Exploring Masville Parañaque Metro Manila ...   Video Credit: "Watch This Before Visiting Manila Philippines [4K WALK]" by Krypto Trekker Source:    • Watch This Before Visiting Manila Philippi...   Video Credit: "SUPER HEAVY RAIN HITS MANILA CITY-Afternoon walk in tondo Manila [4k]" by JOHN WALK TOUR Source:    • SUPER HEAVY RAIN HITS MANILA CITY-Afternoo...   Channels: Krypto Trekker —    / @kryptotrekker   | JOHN WALK TOUR —    / @jwtrealninja   Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). — #RetireInThePhilippines #RetireAbroad #RetirementPlanning #CostOfLivingPhilippines #ExpatLife #RetireOverseas #Iloilo #TooOldToHire #RetiredWelder #StillSomebody retire in the philippines, retire abroad, retire overseas, retirement, retirement planning, cost of living in the philippines, retire on social security, retire on a budget, american retiree philippines, moving to the philippines, living in the philippines, iloilo, iloilo city philippines, iloilo esplanade, hiligaynon, ilonggo, retired welder, age discrimination in hiring, too old to be hired, overqualified, laid off after 60, fixed income, pension, retire at 67, starting over at 67, second chance, another life abroad, philippines cost of living 2026, retire in asia, southeast asia retirement, filipino hospitality, filipino kindness, healthcare in the philippines, retire cheap, best places to retire abroad, senior expat, expat life, retire with dignity, how to retire abroad, dengue fever philippines