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The Kathmandu Post - September 03, 2019 Op-ED

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Five Takeaways of My Early Professional Life

I still remember the time, when I first laid my hand on my Bachelors’ diploma. I had the youthful optimism and the voracious drive to contribute to the workforce of the country and most importantly, make some money to fulfil the basic aspirations that a typical university graduate may possess. But when I couldn’t find a job for quite a while, my optimism withered and the drive I had come to acquire also waned away. The truth was, I had somehow been tricked into believing that a 9 to 5 job awaited me and all I needed to do to claim it for myself, was get a degree. However, that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Only after a few failures, a couple of heartbreaks, another couple of retreats and a few leaps, had I finally found a job I really wanted to do. Nepal’s education system has some problems and the debate regarding the reform of the education sector has been around for a while now. There...

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My Experience of the Ease of Starting a Business in Nepal

I often wondered, what motivates people to be an entrepreneur. If we take my dad for example, he refrained entrepreneurship since as long as I remember. But he tells that out of experience. It was the late 1980s and my father had inherited a venture that was rapidly spiraling towards its demise not long after its beginning. My grandfather, who back then, like everyone else in Nepal, was a farmer, barely had enough lands to feed his family of eight children, had invested a significant fortune in the domestic business of making hand-woven clothes. But soon after its commencement, his health deteriorated, and the business doomed before it could amount to anything. My father and uncles, who were clueless about management of a venture couldn’t perform any miracle, and my father was left with a lesson for life – we – referring to our family – neither have the cunning nor the capital to carry on a venture. This is a lesson that he expected me to abide as...

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The Kathmandu Post - September 03, 2019 Op-ED

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