When i was a kid my father once siad to me. Boy there are three kind of people in who succeed in PAKISTAN:-
One-who are rich like hell
Two-whose 'somebody' is a MNA or MPA or some big shot
Third-The one who works hard!!
So neither your father is a politician nor we are extra-ordinarily rich..so you have left with only one choice and that is to Work Hard!
Now by working hard he meant that study well and get guud grades...(which i did).
Most of us Pakistanis work hard in Metric so that we can get into a guud college like DJ Science, Adamjee (i m talking about Karachi) Then they work hard in Inter to get into some guud institution, like FAST, IBA, GIK, NUST etc etc...
Most of us and my friends have been finding it difficult to get admission in guud colleges because they were only a few marks below the merit.
i was asked by my father that kid '
insaan k itnay number anay chaieye k jis college pe ungli rakhay usay admisssion mil jaye". Which thankfully i managed.
So the point here is that though in our country you require a big 'sifarish' to get certain jobs but still the merit is there.
i don't think so that if you graduate from IBA and you don't get a guud job, or for that matter you manage to get into FAST and by the end of the day you are doing a job which only pays you less. No dear it's not like that.
In our soceity there is a perception that oooooo.... he is double MA but he can't get a job. Dude, come on doing MA in 'C' grade will not fetch you anything.
Doing MBBS like a loser will not let you in Agha Khan hospital. Yo will certainly land as a 'gali k nokar mai clinic wala'
And similarly i can't simply digest that anybody who has studied abroad is finding it difficult to get a guud job in Pakistan. (i m not talking of high schoolers here
)
i can quote you many names who are earning like what i should say veryyy handsome pay on just their start of the job, because he was in the top 10 in his batch when he graduated from the engineering university. Now don't ask me what would happen to them who are not in top 10. But the fact remains that there is always a 'vacancy' for some one who actually is Good, and this included my friends from abroad!