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| Ramesh Dhungana |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 11:41 AM
Dear Sajha mitras,
I have been working in a biotechnology company in cambridge, MA for the past two years. Now, I would like to go back to Nepal and work in some kind of development or public health project for a year or two before I start my further studies. However, being in the USA, I am finding it very hard to find a job in Nepal, especially since I don't have any big connections in nepal. Please advise me on how I should pursue about finding a job in Nepal.
I hope to get some help.
Thank you.
Ramesh.
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| ? |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 12:43 PM
ramesh, can you be more specific on the nature of work you are doing right now? I will try to share what i know. Moreover job availability in this field ( in nepal) also depends on what kind of work you want to do.
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| aviyentaa |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 12:46 PM
Ramesh bro, U can try finding a job at BP Memorial Institute of Health Science as research associate. What is your area of specialization? I have a friend who is a Physiologist and works for Oncology Research Department there, I hope he is still working. And what has been your Education? Write me back, may be I can give u some leads.
Avi
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| ashu |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 12:51 PM
Ramesh,
You'll have to come to Nepal, and knock on a few doors and talk to a few people and basically sell your expertise. This can be done. Don't tell your prospective employees that you plan to hang around for only two years or so, however.
For development-related work, you may wish to contact the Save the Children folks, GTZ projects, Swiss projects and other such agencies that are active in Nepal.
For public health, again, World Food Program, Adra-Nepal and other agencies
may be able to offer you some good pointers.
Finally, with your kind of background, if you want to enter the private sector, one good news is that the entire Nepali pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a massive restructuring these days to comply with the WHO standards. This
means, there is going to be a big shake-up in the drug industry -- with mergers and acquisitions happening, with consolidation taking place and with some companies being closed forever, and so on and on.
Exciting time, to be sure!!
With some luck, effort and persistence on your part, you may either end up serving as a strategy consultant to help these drug companies do well in the new market place or serve as a techncal consultant to help them produce drugs at a more cost-effective way.
Well, I don't want to raise your hopes too high; but just want to say that as a fellow sajha dot comer, I'd be happy to meet you in Kathmandu and share some
of my contacts in the fields of public health and development that you may be able to use to find a job.
No hard promises, but it'll be a pleasure to assist fellow Nepalis like you to lead fulfilling and productive lives in Nepal.
I am sure there are many other sajha dot comers who too would of help to you.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Ramesh Dhungana |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 02:33 PM
Thanks for the reply guys.
? and aviyentaa, one of the main reasons that i am planning to go back is because I want to do something different than what i have been doing so far. Currently, I am working as bioinformatician. I was thinking of doing PhD in bioinformatics but I thought then my dream of going back to Nepal will be closed as there will be very few opportunities for bioinformatician in Nepal. So, I want to change my field and rather go for development or public health and forget about what i have been doing so far.
ashu, thank you so much for your advice. I will surely contact you after I come to Nepal, but I am hoping to have some kind of job before I go back to Nepal (this will help me answer my parents who are rather disturbed by my idea about going back), even if I don't, I will surely be in Nepal from July onwards.
Ramesh.
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| Babesh Mungana |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 06:37 PM
Rameshji,
Go to nepalnews.com and follow the link to Nepali Times. They ofen post some high-quality (you deserve them) jobs there. Good luck and have fun in Nepal if you go.
ps: Would be grateful if you could get me some "bidi" when you come back. Didnt know that "churot" whould be freaking expensive here.
contact: babesh_mungana@yahoo.com
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| well wisher |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 06:51 PM
Hi Ramesh ji,
Why do you go back to Nepal? Once you go back to Nepal, you will be asked thousand of time from Nepali dudes that why you came back to Nepal. Most of Nepalese people have dream to come to US and do struggle to establish in this society. You know it better.
If you do not see any hope here in US, what type of hope do you see in Nepal? I like all the Yuba of Nepal to come to US and feel doing well.
see you Ramesh.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 19-Mar-02 07:23 PM
Sure, Ramesh.
Hope things work out for you.
Two things:
First, generally speaking, our middle- to upper-middle-class parents and relatives in Nepal are wonderful people who often grandly lecture all and sundry that for Nepal to be developed, young Nepalis from the West have to come back to
Nepal and work here. This is fine and good and costs them NOTHING.
It's just that some of them get really nervous, worried and start expressing
their befuddlement when their OWN sons/daughters and relatives in the West
express an interest in coming back to Nepal and work here. Then they'll give
you thousand reasons why you should not come back.
That's life :-)
Second, one DOWNSIDE to living and working in Nepal is that you have to work very hard to find, retain and be friends with people who are smarter than you
are and who keep you challenged, engaged and learning and who can provide
you with an honest, visceral evaluation of your work, and who help you grow personally and professionally.
This is a very important point.
What I mean is: It's so easy to do a few things well, and get sajilo, sajilo praise
seemingly from everyone in Nepal. And when you get too much of sajlo, sajilo praise, it can be very tempting to wallow in "everybody thinks I am great" sort
of mode -- an attitude that can ONLY lead to a gradual slide into complacence
and mediocrity and boring institutional entrenchment.
I've seen a lot of formerly promising Nepalis slowly and certainly, being ultimately damaged this way -- reduced they are to a level of caricature of their former selves. And that is because in the absence of challenge and feedbacks, after some time they started to believe their own press releases, their own hype, so
to speak!!
It's sad, but happens so often in Nepal that I'd put "careful career management by aggressively seeking visceral evaluations of your work from people you respect" a number-one priority for those who want to remain professionally
sharp all the time in Nepal.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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