Ian and Nicole Reyes, residents of Manila, married in 2004 after years of dating. Ian worked as an engineer in the city and Nicole took a job as a receptionist at a local clinic. After their first child, Maria, was born in 2008, they decided that Nicole would quit her job to stay home with their children.
The manufacturing industry was hit hard during the financial crisis of 2008. Thankfully, Ian did not lose his job, but he had to work more hours and take a heavy pay cut to help his company survive. “Ian was providing for our needs, but I noticed how tired he became. We tried to save all the money we could but it never seemed like enough” Nicole shared. “We really were not sure what was going to happen. The market did pick up, but it dropped again. And by that point, I was pregnant with Kim, so we just prayed to God for the best.”
Soon after Kim was born, Nicole was browsing Facebook one afternoon and saw an advertisement saying she could earn ₱36,000 per day from home. Curious, she clicked on it and did some research. “It had some excellent reviews from a lot of users so I felt safer signing up for the system. It is not like those ‘get rich quick’ scams where you have to sell things to make a living. If I did have to sell things I would not have signed up” Nicole shared.
Using the internet to work from home has become one of the largest worldwide trends and has recently exploded in the Philippines. Tesler is an instruction system that teaches you to use internet sites like Google, Walmart, Amazon, Apple and so many others to make money online. All you have to do is fill out a short form online to get access to the system.
“I was nervous about starting the system. I do not know the computer very well, but they teach you how to do everything you need to know. I really only knew how to browse the internet, but that is all the computer skill I needed. I also did not want Ian to feel as though he was not providing for our family” Nicole shared.
“I was nervous about starting the system. I did not want him to feel as though he was not providing for our family.”
Nicole Reyes
After her first two weeks using the system, two checks arrived totaling ₱27,123.79. Nicole decided she needed a way to hide this money until she gained the courage to tell Ian about her new job. So, she secretly opened a bank account without her husband’s knowledge. She chose to have the checks deposited directly into that account each week.
And just like that life went on as normal for 3 years. Ian would go to work while Nicole worked on the Tesler system at home. She did not touch the money in the secret account. “It was very hard for me to keep such a big secret from my husband. I felt like I was betraying him, but I feared telling him more. Looking back on it, it was foolish of me to keep it from him” Nicole said.
