Posted on September 21, 2007 - by Ujwal

Career driven or not?

I see young people that i interview (almost on a daily basis) have a problem in commiting to thier career.

Most Young nepalis i have met, seem more preoccupied with their family and their family affects their decision to such an extent, that they seem more than happy “half time”, even if that meant lower pay and lower career growth opportunity.
which means lot of holidays, and Nepal’s atrocious number of government holidays. (2nd highest in the world, last i recall!)

Career comes behind family and i believe this impeds one’s growth professionally specially when you are raw and need career experience to grow.

What say?
Career or Family?
I don’t see balance for fresh young people trying to start working in any industry.

I see no sense of urgency to succeed young. As if they are fine to take their time to achieve something, which is alarming to me. This way, a company’s growth is stunted, as it relies on its bright people to push it up.