Making it in the Big Apple
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By Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey–Filipino success has a lot to do not just with skills but the right disposition.
“Sometimes, it really depends on the person if he has the right attitude and the clarity of vision that should go with his skills,” Mila Mendez, 54, tells the Inquirer in an interview at the sprawling Tropicana Hotel and Casino here.
This was the formula Mila and her husband Fernando “Nanding” Mendez used when they first arrived in the United States in the 1980s. Mila has since moved from a clerical job at Dow Jones to a top marketing official at the American publishing and financial information firm. At one point she was earning more than $80,000 a year.
