03-04-2005, 10:53 PM
During my stay in United Kingdom, the whole world opened for me. With my training and qualifications, job offers from all nooks and crannies came to me. The temptation to stay and make a career in the UK, as was becoming fashionable at that time, was very great particularly since all my attempts at securing a suitable position at home did not meet with any measure of success. However, I never had any serious thoughts about not going back home. First, I knew and felt that my country needed me more than the developed countries like the UK. I also knew that in my country I would be a first class citizen and be more relevant.
4-5 weeks back i took the plunge and returned home without any job offers, determined to find work. My gamble paid off because our dynamic military ruler is an avid newspaper reader who saw a satirical article about me in a newspaper describing me as a man over-qualified to be employed. Employment came a few days later. It is very unlikely that the President of the UK would be in a position to invite me in such circumstances and offer me a job if I was still in the UK. This immediately justified one of the reasons I insisted on coming back home despite the fact that jobs and life were rosier abroad.
Having arrived home, the first shock was the paucity of the salary and the backwardness of the infrastructure and quality of living. I found I was over qualified for the job I was offered and my expereince was too high-powered for the kind of funds available. However, I decided to put in to use whatever part of my training was applicable rather than continuing my research into political sciences. I probably might have broken the atom [)] if I remained in the UK (chance almost nil) but I doubt if my work would have touched so many lives! I am also, building on experience gained from the UK, planning to set up a factory in Lahore and for it i have even purchased the land in the Industrial Estate.
Although one cannot stop human migration (which in fact might be beneficial to the human race), my advice to those who go abroad for training is that they should as much as possible, return and help develop their country. In so doing they will develop themselves, and with their skills, amass fame and perhaps fortune far in excess of what they may achieve abroad. The initial advantage of a settled life abroad will be overtaken by the fact that in the end people tend to achieve greater height at home than abroad. Returning home by a good majority of those who go abroad to study has one added advantage of allowing others to have the same opportunity. Right now this is not so because the foreign embassies now tend to refuse Visas to young people going abroad to study for fear they might not return.
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If I could... Then I would... Turn back time!!
4-5 weeks back i took the plunge and returned home without any job offers, determined to find work. My gamble paid off because our dynamic military ruler is an avid newspaper reader who saw a satirical article about me in a newspaper describing me as a man over-qualified to be employed. Employment came a few days later. It is very unlikely that the President of the UK would be in a position to invite me in such circumstances and offer me a job if I was still in the UK. This immediately justified one of the reasons I insisted on coming back home despite the fact that jobs and life were rosier abroad.
Having arrived home, the first shock was the paucity of the salary and the backwardness of the infrastructure and quality of living. I found I was over qualified for the job I was offered and my expereince was too high-powered for the kind of funds available. However, I decided to put in to use whatever part of my training was applicable rather than continuing my research into political sciences. I probably might have broken the atom [)] if I remained in the UK (chance almost nil) but I doubt if my work would have touched so many lives! I am also, building on experience gained from the UK, planning to set up a factory in Lahore and for it i have even purchased the land in the Industrial Estate.
Although one cannot stop human migration (which in fact might be beneficial to the human race), my advice to those who go abroad for training is that they should as much as possible, return and help develop their country. In so doing they will develop themselves, and with their skills, amass fame and perhaps fortune far in excess of what they may achieve abroad. The initial advantage of a settled life abroad will be overtaken by the fact that in the end people tend to achieve greater height at home than abroad. Returning home by a good majority of those who go abroad to study has one added advantage of allowing others to have the same opportunity. Right now this is not so because the foreign embassies now tend to refuse Visas to young people going abroad to study for fear they might not return.
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If I could... Then I would... Turn back time!!
