As an Engineer you have one choice now:

“Either make your own dreams come true or you will be hired to make someone else’s dream come true.”

If you chose to make your dreams come true, do continue below:

Engineers have to become Entrepreneurs for Nepal

Why so? Because Entrepreneurs see opportunity in a problem. It could be any type of problem that we see in our everyday lives. Impure food, lack of electricity and petroleum, transportation, healthcare and many others. Problems that we experience, read of and hear in any area could become an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Problems can come in various flavors – the product – too expensive, scarce, difficult to use, slow etc. Nepalese outside urban centers do not have easy access to doctors. In Nepal, we suffer from long hours of power cuts in the winter months. Food is getting very expensive in the cities. We want the world’s best healthcare in Nepal, but may not have access to it, or afford it.

The harder this problem becomes, the better the opportunity for someone who can solve it.  If you are an engineer, know

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1. Intern: go work for free for someone at-least 1 month every year. Practical experience is what you sorely lack in school/college. Interning is how you ready yourself for the world.
2. Perform: actively in school/college (in theatre, arts, singing, dancing or even raising funds for a charity). Expand your horizons, build your self-confidence sooner than later.
3. Learn: how “finance” work (specially the power of compound interest and exponential function). Wealth ensures you more freedom to pursue what you want in life. Learn its basics.
4. Give: 10% of what you are given back to charity. Make this a rule. True compassion lies in sharing what you have to strangers who may never know about your generosity.
5. Travel: to a remote village in the mountains, hills & Terai

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अरूभन्दा फरक हुन खोज्ने मान्छेलाई समाजले सन्काहा भन्छ। यस्ता मानिसको या त धेरै आलोचक हुन्छन् या त धेरै फ्यान फलोअर। उज्वल ५५२ यस्तै सन्काहा युवामध्ये एक हुन्। स्याङ्जाको सामान्य परिवारमा जन्मिएका यी युवा छात्रवृत्तिमा बूढानीलकण्ठ स्कुलमा ४ कक्षामा भर्ना भएदेखि नै फरक काम गर्न रुचाउँथे। कतिसम्म भने बेलायतबाट लिइएको ए लेभलको अंग्रेजी साहित्यको परीक्षामा उनले अक्षरमा उत्तर नलेखी कार्टुन बनाएर उत्तर दिएका थिए। शिक्षक एवं साथीहरूले उनको कामलाई पागलपन भनेर जिस्क्याए पनि उनलाई बेलायती परीक्षाबोर्डले धेरै जिस्क्याउने साथीहरूको भन्दा उच्च अंकमा पास गरेर पठायो। केही समयपछि अमेरिका पुगेका उज्वल मल्टाइ-मिडियामा स्नातक गरेर चर्चित सर्च इन्जिन याहुडटकमसम्म पुगेका थिए। यद्यपि उनी जागिर नै नखाई नेपाल फर्किए। कहिले बन्दविरोधी आन्दोलन त कहिले युवा उद्यमीलाई एकजुट पार्ने अभियान चलाइरहेका उज्वल अहिले ‘विवेकशील नेपाली’ का नाममा युवाहरूलाई संगठित गरिरहेका छन्।

तपाईंको नामका पछाडि ५५२ नम्बर छ, यो थर हो ?

यो मेरो विद्यालयको नम्बर हो। जसरी प्रहरी, सेनामा नम्बरका आधारमा मानिसको चिनारी हुन्छ, मेरो पनि त्यस्तै नम्बर हो। परिचय दिँदा नाम पछाडि थर किन भनिन्छ वा लेखिन्छ ? अरूले किन यसमा चासो दिन्छन्, त्यो मैले अहिलेसम्म बुझेको

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“We are not failing. We have already failed. Deal with it.”

Nepal ranks in as 30th Failed state of the world according to this report.

So how do we deal with it? And how do we move on?

Here are 3 important life-choices you will have to make to play a role in turning our country around:

1) Take the political path:  Want to serve your country fore-most? Take the lead and join politics (redefine it, change the whole political culture). Politics is an ultimate sacrifice if you want the change you seek in Nepal now.  If your priority is saving your conscience, your family, your town and your country all in one, you will prepare yourself to lead us all out of this mess! No earlier experience required: you learn as you go. Simplify your life. Try to live a life of example. Beware, Politics is like fire. You can either make it a good servant or a bad master, all up to you. Note: Do not make politics a career. Make sure, you have an alternative livelihood which sustains your family while you lead

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Twenty years ago, our mentors – our teachers, parents, uncles and aunts, grandparents, and even prominent radio and TV personalities – started giving us career guidance from an early age.

They told us, explicitly or implicitly, what they expected from each of us. They had analyzed, to the best of their ability, what was going wrong in Nepal at that time, and tried to make us look into solutions to the problems they were facing then. Fair enough.

That is why almost all of them told us to become professionals – engineers, teachers, bankers, managers, accountants etc – or medical doctors or scientists.

If you are a middle-aged Nepali, you might have heard something similar. Every Dashain, while offering tika, our elders blessed us thus: “Bujhyau, you better become a doctor or engineer (professional) hai, otherwise a scientist bhaye pani hunchha!”

They would frown upon some of our own exciting ideas of making a career in sports, poetry, journalism, or even acting. Equally no-no was a career in politics or in the government (public service). Even the army or police was out of the question for the

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