For decades, the OFW route was taken mostly by Pinoys of the lower and lower-middle class.  They venture abroad, not merely for "better opportunities" but for sheer survival.  Over the last decade and in the past few years, however, the popular connotation of "OFW" has undergone a subtle change.  While it traditionally and popularly referred to nurses and caregivers in North America, domestic helpers in Hong Kong, and laborers in Saudi Arabia, it now also popularly refers to advertising executives in Vietnam  and Cambodia, graphic artists and animators in Singapore, and sales executives in Dubai. These are the men and women who previously embodied the entity known as the "Pinoy Yuppie;" now relocated and thus rechristened as "OFW."

The Yuppie - as defined and personified in the 80s and 90s -- is now a dying breed here in the Philippines.  Sure, we technically still have hoards of "young professionals" in the country, but the shirt-and-tie-with-briefcase Makati yuppie has now been supplanted by the hoodie-and-skinny-jeans-with-iPod Makati call center agent.  This has now become the only viable option left for the average college graduate -- to answer or place calls to westerners who would be paid more for doing their jobs, only they don't want their jobs.