Posted by: newStudent January 19, 2011
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Chana,
I thought I wrote my last comment on this thread, but I wanted to add one rejoinder in your story.
I have met several US returnees who saved our government tons of money because they were honest bureaucrat. Eventhough several bureaucrats havne't made money for themselves, they have saved govt a lot of money. One particular example is a guy who went back with Vanderbilt PhD in economics and worked in Rashtra Bank. He saved Nepal govt billions of Rupees during an infamous "Arab Kanda". Other bureaucrats--there are many--,too, have resisted order of corrupt politicians to save money for our govt. Of course, there are a lot of other bad apples.
I am not surprised by the fact that your family doesn't have maid to work or some other strappings of wealth to show off. Working in govt service doesn't promise you any such thing anyway. (working in military would have made that possible for high ranking officers). To make money, one has to be businessman or inherit wealth or be corrupt or buy lottery.
I am relatively well steeped in american life. I have several American friends, and the story is more or less same here. If you want to make tons of money, you should be a businessman here. A salary of 90K per year will normally mean you take only 50K per year. Kid's education , and dinners often take away. What is left has to be set aside for health. A friend of mine had a sister who went to Duke, but once their father had a cancer, she had to come back to a state school, because his savings were eaten away by his disease. A long illness is the worst thing here.
Life is tough anyway. We tend to create a safety network, a social sorrounding around you that comes to rescue when you need help, to cope with really harsh situation. I think our country has a lot of potential and something is not clicking right at the moment. I don't want every Nepali to head home, but those who promised to head home after their education should go, and those who actually have talent to do some innovative business should also go. If there are people around us who can use garbage of KTM to make something beautiful, or who can create nice product using our country's raw materials should also go. those who are not bright enough to make some integrated product, but only know what to do (araeko garne), they probably won't have much better life in nepal either.This is different from saying, as some here did, that you should go only if you are not good enough to land a job here. I think that is the most stupid thing to say.
Hope you guys enjoy your conversation here on.
I thought I wrote my last comment on this thread, but I wanted to add one rejoinder in your story.
I have met several US returnees who saved our government tons of money because they were honest bureaucrat. Eventhough several bureaucrats havne't made money for themselves, they have saved govt a lot of money. One particular example is a guy who went back with Vanderbilt PhD in economics and worked in Rashtra Bank. He saved Nepal govt billions of Rupees during an infamous "Arab Kanda". Other bureaucrats--there are many--,too, have resisted order of corrupt politicians to save money for our govt. Of course, there are a lot of other bad apples.
I am not surprised by the fact that your family doesn't have maid to work or some other strappings of wealth to show off. Working in govt service doesn't promise you any such thing anyway. (working in military would have made that possible for high ranking officers). To make money, one has to be businessman or inherit wealth or be corrupt or buy lottery.
I am relatively well steeped in american life. I have several American friends, and the story is more or less same here. If you want to make tons of money, you should be a businessman here. A salary of 90K per year will normally mean you take only 50K per year. Kid's education , and dinners often take away. What is left has to be set aside for health. A friend of mine had a sister who went to Duke, but once their father had a cancer, she had to come back to a state school, because his savings were eaten away by his disease. A long illness is the worst thing here.
Life is tough anyway. We tend to create a safety network, a social sorrounding around you that comes to rescue when you need help, to cope with really harsh situation. I think our country has a lot of potential and something is not clicking right at the moment. I don't want every Nepali to head home, but those who promised to head home after their education should go, and those who actually have talent to do some innovative business should also go. If there are people around us who can use garbage of KTM to make something beautiful, or who can create nice product using our country's raw materials should also go. those who are not bright enough to make some integrated product, but only know what to do (araeko garne), they probably won't have much better life in nepal either.This is different from saying, as some here did, that you should go only if you are not good enough to land a job here. I think that is the most stupid thing to say.
Hope you guys enjoy your conversation here on.