Freelancing in Pakistan And India

On a random day, just sit with any Pakistani student and discuss the current affairs with him. No matter what the discussion is, you will end up hearing sentences such as:

Pakistan main kia rakha hai, mujai chance mila to bahir nikil jana hai.

Main kisi aur mulk main hee paida ho jata, kia kharab kismet hai mairee.

While reading such sentences I am sure you will be having the same feeling and let me tell you Mr. Reader, nobody but you are to be blamed for this thinking of yours. People have this thinking mainly because either they know there are no future job prospects or they are not happy with their progress in their current jobs. Now, the most important question,

Why are people to be blamed for this thinking?

For understanding this, you need to look at the routine of a Pakistani student.

What does he even do all day?

Students will argue, like,

Oh, yaar assignments aur studies sai hee fursat nae milteee to aur kia karaein hum.

This is again a bogus argument. If per say this argument is correct, then how on earth do they get time to chat with their boyfriends and girlfriends all night long? Why do they spend hours and hours on facebook stalking others? Why do they party with their friends as if it was their last day on earth?

So, it's all about priorities. Now, what is that the students need to do?

Students just need to dive in the world of freelancing the moment they turn 18 or maybe earlier as well. They can earn a healthy pocket money by writing articles, internet marketing or by being a personal assistant of someone online. You can do all this just through signing up on freelancing websites like Odesk, Elance etc. Well, if you are a computer science student, then I suggest you should give a damn about your GPA and just do freelancing during your studies. This mindset may bother our so-called PhDs and professors but all this activity teaches you many lessons described below.

Normally, what happens is that when you start a job, there will be workshops on how to talk to your clients and how to be polite and what not. Just imagine, what if you are to expose yourself to such activities through freelancing? If you are sitting at your home and giving online interviews on skype, writing cover letters for jobs and everything. Wouldn't it sharpen your skills and give you an edge in your practical life? No matter what our so called PhD gurus say, this helps and yes it helps a lot.

If you think, I am just a lousy idiot saying this stuff, let me tell you I have done freelancing all my university life. I had all night hangouts back in my hostel at GIKI but still did everything. So, the point is it can be done, it is not impossible.

Therefore, again to all those students out there, next time you say that Pakistan is useless, just think! Do you really utilize the opportunities which are at hand?

At the end I will just say, if you do freelancing during your studies, you can get exposure to practical life even before entering it and that is going to really help you in your career, let alone the money you'll earn. If students in other countries can work during their education, then what is the problem with us? JUST THINK!

If you have completed your education and passed your student life, I beg to you to encourage your juniors, children and students to do freelancing rather than wasting their time

The Facebook Effect

All our lives we study that the electromagnetic effect has great importance in our lives. Well, I will not be wrong if I say that the facebook effect has equal importance. As you read these lines I can say without any doubt that facebook will be open in one of your browser tabs for sure.

Now, people from all walks of life use facebook in our society. Young guys will always be stalking the profile pictures of girls and young girls will be uploading their pretty pictures just for the sake that some girl or guy can comment, “aww you are so pretty”. There will be guys who update their status just for the sake that some girl will comment on it. Boyfriends and girlfriends will be stalking the profiles of their better halves, just to check if they are not up to something fishy. Similarly, married couples will be stalking each other.

Then, there are those curious uncles and aunties who will be stalking their children so that they can bug them later on like, “Oh my, which chick is that? She is so not innocent”. Not to forget those people who share and upload cool stuff just to come across as some sort of intellectual geniuses. Given all these people, there will be a small minority who will be using facebook so that they can remain in contact with their friends but let us not forget this category is negligible.
Some readers might be furious right now that what sort of narrow minded freak this person is. To all such readers, I will ask only one question:
Why do you actually try to take a dp shot from all sort of angles together with the coolest smile to go with?

You might be of the view that oh this is just because I want to look good to myself. Who are we deceiving here? We upload a cool dp so that the guy or girl who looks at our dp can actually say that wow this person has “the looks”.
So, where does all this lead us?

We will be wrong to assume that facebook does not affect lives negatively, no matter how much we say that it does not affect us. I will not give the age old argument that it wastes our time and stuff. What I believe is that facebook forces you to present yourself as someone you are not. We will always be trying to portray ourselves as one of the very best in the business. When we see other people’s profiles, we get the impression as if they are the happiest and the most successful people on the face of the earth. So, we just try to portray ourselves better than others. If we analyze all the facebook profiles, I guess we will get the impression that all the facebook users are actually the happiest people around which is so not true.

When you try to portray fake happiness by hiding your real sorrows, it just pushes you in state of depression and stalking other people just increases your pain. You might have noticed that I have used the word stalking again and again in this blog. It goes without saying that stalking is just another word for facebook.
Let me give you an example to prove why facebook pushes you in a state of depression. Just imagine that you are sitting idle in a room and you are thinking that your life is full of boredom. Maybe you are biting your nails as well. As you start to curse your life, you glance at your laptop or your smart phone and you see the cruel feed. The first update pops up from some friend of yours, “Having the time of my life at Gloria Jeans”. Then comes the second update which shows a picture of a group of friends enjoying a cup of tea or a glass of vodka. This is where you start to think that you have a screwed life with nothing to offer. You really get depressed but you fail to understand that this is what life is and life cannot be fun and games all the time. There will be times when you will be bored and there will be times when you will enjoy.

These were some of the drawbacks of facebook which are there but we do not recognize them. Until now it seems as if I have been thrashing facebook so let me be honest over here. Given all the bad effects of facebook, there are many positive aspects to it as well such as you can stay in touch with your old friends; you can stay in touch with the latest trends through fan pages etc. and etc. I can go on and on but let me not bore you by writing the age old benefits of facebook.

I will never recommend that you kick out facebook from your lives but we have to change our attitude towards it. We should never have the attitude in which people just upload their pictures just to check how many likes they will get. When people do not get the desired likes, it hurts their self-esteem. Therefore, we should just get rid of this attitude. In addition to this, just try to decrease the time you spend on facebook because if you spend a lot of time, it will eventually depress you. And Never ever let the status updates of your friend’s effect the decisions of your life. If they do, then sit back and relax as you self-destruct.

The Importance of Trust in our Society

The word “Trust” is not taken seriously in our daily life these days. Be it our friends, business, teachers, elders or whatever, we are bent on deceiving people for our own benefits. If we analyze, this really affects our society in a negative manner. People stop trusting each other and when this happens it brings about a downfall of a society.

We need to be really careful about trust when it comes to our daily life because even if one person betrays the trust of another person, this news spreads in the society like fire encouraging people not to trust people around them. One might say that he is just one person in the society and his actions will not affect the society at large. This concept is very wrong. As I mentioned earlier even if one person, commits a wrong doing it does affect the whole society.

Therefore, everyone of us has a role to play in our society and we should try our best not to betray the trust of people. You might think this article is crap but do take out a minute from your daily life to think how many people you betrayed today and try to correct it. This will lead us to a healthy society.