Two weeks ago, I had lunch with a Fulbright alum who stayed and taught in a school up north for 6 months. It was a fun to follow her thinking and life after she left Thailand.
In fact, it started from her keen interest in taking vdo's about her English camp and other related activities while teaching. When she went back to the US, IIE (representing the State Dept in recruiting Fulbright students and English Teaching Assistants -- ETA) asked her to help promote the ETA Program and so she flew to different States and attend some important functions. This has in part, increased her own passion in technology.
She now owns a small company doing, 'Website Designer & Marketing Consultant and Women's Empowerment Speaker'!
We talked about the location of her office. She said, 'Pakistan'! My first surprise!
When asked how many times she has been there. She answered, 'Never'! My second surprise!
My Fulbright alum said she was lucky to find one young lady there who wanted to work with her and she was the one managing the office in Pakistan (very eager to learn more how this Pakistani lady has become so competent and excelled in her management in her country na ka!) Things work out well with long-distance leadership from the US! From time to time, she still gets online requests for her to offer advice or lead a camp.
After our get together, she went to Samui to work with her team in Pakistan on their US clients from Thailand!! It turned out to be a real digital world of work ka.
Then we discussed family life and she asked me if I used, 'Tinder' a very popular matchmaking app. You can guess it must have been a 'No' ka. I told her I was afraid if any Fulbright kid found out, it'd become talk of the town:))! Seems it's something quite common for our Y gen.
Has our education been up to this form and other digital ways of work and life ka?
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