{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":10.56,"endTime":28.64,"body":"On the move."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":28.64,"endTime":33.2,"body":"Hi Marty, good morning from Canada and thank you for having me in your podcast."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":33.2,"endTime":39.6,"body":"I'm very happy that you're here. I know you're in London, not London, England,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":39.6,"endTime":45.76,"body":"the London; you're in London, Ontario, Canada, a city that I lived in briefly in the 2000s"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":45.76,"endTime":52.24,"body":"and I'm sitting in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal obviously. So I'm happy that we're doing this,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":52.24,"endTime":58.24,"body":"we're temporarily in each other's countries which is great. So I don't know much about you,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":59.04,"endTime":62.72,"body":"I know that you're in London, you haven't been there long about a year and a half"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":62.72,"endTime":68.24,"body":"and you're studying. So we're going to get into all of that but first before we talk about"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":68.24,"endTime":72.96,"body":"the current in the future, tell me a little bit about your past where you were born,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":72.96,"endTime":75.52,"body":"where you went to school, that kind of thing."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":75.52,"endTime":83.2,"body":"I was born in a small, then, then, like at that time it was a small city, now it's a bigger"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":83.2,"endTime":90.96,"body":"municipality. So I was born in Biratnagar, Nepal and then I studied in VKVM which is like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":90.96,"endTime":98.4,"body":"Balkali and Bidia Mandir, it's in Biratnagar. So like after grade four, I shifted to Kathmandu"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":98.4,"endTime":104.88,"body":"and I went to Daffodil Public School and then I did my cell C from there and I went to Uniglo,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":104.88,"endTime":112.0,"body":"Higher Secondary School from high school and after that I went to Bangalore, India for my"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":112.0,"endTime":120.96,"body":"mechanical engineering degree and then COVID hit and I went back, I did my last semester from Nepal,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":120.96,"endTime":126.48,"body":"like the online thing, everything and then it's been like one and a half year, I'm here in London"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":126.48,"endTime":133.76,"body":"until you can. Okay, okay, that's great. So it fills in a few gaps. So did your family move to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":133.76,"endTime":138.96,"body":"Kathmandu or just you to study? Another whole family moved. Like I have one brother,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":139.6,"endTime":149.84,"body":"father, mother and a grand mom. So like we all we moved to Kathmandu. I think it's in 2013, I guess."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":149.84,"endTime":157.52,"body":"Okay, okay, and just in case people don't know, Biratnagar is in south eastern Nepal, one of the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":157.52,"endTime":164.64,"body":"biggest cities in the country after Kathmandu and SLC also if you don't know is school leaving certificate"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":164.64,"endTime":172.4,"body":"which is grade 10 pass and it's now called SEE, right? Yeah. Okay, great. So and then Bangalore. So what,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":172.4,"endTime":178.8,"body":"why did you go to Bangalore? Because like I wanted to be a mechanical engineer from grade 8"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":178.8,"endTime":186.24,"body":"and then I searched for the colleges and there are very few colleges in Nepal who provides the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":186.24,"endTime":193.52,"body":"mechanical engineering degree and I thought that it's easier to go like to Bangalore or India and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":193.52,"endTime":198.4,"body":"do the mechanical engineering because you know we need to give exams and then if you don't"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":198.4,"endTime":208.16,"body":"like be selected in the program and I had to make a one-year gap. So that's why I thought like it's"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":208.16,"endTime":216.32,"body":"easier out there so that I went in India. Okay, I didn't realize that mechanical engineering was"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":216.32,"endTime":221.68,"body":"quite hard to study here. Like there's a lack of programs. I didn't know that because only a few"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":221.68,"endTime":228.72,"body":"colleges the university is provided. So why mechanical engineering? What is it that you said from grade 8?"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":228.72,"endTime":234.24,"body":"What is it that got you excited about mechanical? Like I was in my mama, we say mama,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":234.24,"endTime":243.68,"body":"so like it's in Jhapa, Chandragadi. Okay, your uncle's house. Yeah. And then I was casually changing"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":243.68,"endTime":250.56,"body":"like the channels on the TV. So like I found a channel called Discovery, Discovery Torbo,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":250.56,"endTime":257.12,"body":"which is more about cars and then repair and then modification and everything like that."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":257.12,"endTime":264.88,"body":"And I thought like this is for me, like I wanted to do that. I wanted to do that. So I went and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":264.88,"endTime":271.92,"body":"studied mechanical engineering later on. Okay, okay. And do you still kind of dream about those same"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":271.92,"endTime":275.92,"body":"sort of things? Like is that where you're even even the course that I'm taking now it's called"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":275.92,"endTime":281.84,"body":"auto body repair techniques and it's more about repairing the vehicle and all. So like I'm into"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":281.84,"endTime":290.08,"body":"designing and the repair thing and like yeah. Interesting. Okay, okay. So then you finished a degree,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":290.08,"endTime":295.76,"body":"like the degree you were doing in Bangalore, you finished it in Kathmandu online because of COVID."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":295.76,"endTime":304.24,"body":"So that's like a first degree, like a bachelor's degree. And then what took you to all the way to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":304.24,"endTime":312.56,"body":"Canada? It's a long way to go. Yeah. So like Canada, I didn't come here for studies. I came here for"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":312.56,"endTime":318.88,"body":"my future. So like if you see the job opportunity in Nepal, like we have very few industries and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":319.44,"endTime":327.44,"body":"the companies that are there is more like the service and the sale of the product. We don't have the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":327.44,"endTime":333.28,"body":"company that are into manufacturing and all. And the growth is limited. Like you can be a manager,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":333.28,"endTime":339.28,"body":"the CEO and the head and charge everything, but like you cannot grow into like you can jump into"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":339.28,"endTime":346.4,"body":"companies and companies and companies. So like for that reason, I thought like it's not worth it"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":347.44,"endTime":354.0,"body":"for my career and for for my future to live in Nepal for this time. Like for certain time, it's not"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":354.0,"endTime":359.28,"body":"worth it so that I can build myself and then I can excel in my life. So that's why I left."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":359.28,"endTime":367.12,"body":"I see, I see. So you got you got to Canada, were you looking to start to find a job right away? Was that"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":367.12,"endTime":375.2,"body":"the plan? The first thing that I did was like it is very hard to find a job in Canada like the smaller"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":375.2,"endTime":382.08,"body":"job and the big job even in the restaurant and in the Walmart and like that those kinds of job,"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":382.08,"endTime":388.64,"body":"it's very tough to get because there are too much, the students are like too much here. So like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":388.64,"endTime":396.56,"body":"the first thing I did, I applied online. We have like sides like indeed and then Walmarts and no"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":396.56,"endTime":401.6,"body":"fields. So like I went into their sites and I applied for the job and I don't know why because"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":402.96,"endTime":408.08,"body":"I think that my CV was not that interesting enough for them. So like they were not"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":408.08,"endTime":416.72,"body":"calling me for interviews and all. So then later then after a month of applying into the online"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":416.72,"endTime":423.52,"body":"sites, I went to give my CV in person like restaurant to restaurant or the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":423.52,"endTime":432.32,"body":"shop to shop and then finally I got my job in a fast food restaurant after a month that I came here."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":432.72,"endTime":438.32,"body":"And those times are that way tough. Those times were tough."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":438.32,"endTime":447.6,"body":"Okay and then so it took a month which I guess was not what you were expecting but sounds okay like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":447.6,"endTime":452.8,"body":"to find a job is not too too long and then are you still working at that job or you've moved on"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":452.8,"endTime":462.08,"body":"from that? No I switched into another restaurant now because like they were not paying a good amount"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":462.08,"endTime":468.16,"body":"for me and then I switched because my friends were working in the restaurant that I'm not working"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":468.16,"endTime":474.64,"body":"now and they put a reference and they like put me in. So now it's good because I'm working with my"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":474.64,"endTime":481.36,"body":"friends and the most important thing in Canada I think it's referral. So you can refer the person that"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":481.36,"endTime":490.8,"body":"you want to like make work and for that to happen we need a strong networking. So like that is also"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":490.8,"endTime":501.52,"body":"a next thing that we need here. Right okay okay so you've been there since September 2022. 2022"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":501.52,"endTime":508.16,"body":"and so how are you feeling about your original plan? Do you feel like you're moving in the right"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":508.16,"endTime":515.28,"body":"direction or do you feel like you got completely sidetracked? No I think like times have been tough"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":515.28,"endTime":520.56,"body":"but like back in the mind I have the dream I have the things to achieve and I think I'm"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":520.56,"endTime":527.52,"body":"in a right track right now because like I know what to do watch my next step. So like I think"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":527.52,"endTime":533.2,"body":"I have not moved out of the track but like I am running behind the tracks."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":533.2,"endTime":538.48,"body":"And while you're working are you also taking classes or?"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":538.48,"endTime":547.92,"body":"Oh yes I work and take classes like it's hectic though like I have classes on every day and I have"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":547.92,"endTime":555.28,"body":"labs which I can't leave and the RCC have made a new rule that you need to be present in your class"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":555.28,"endTime":561.6,"body":"and they will ask the teacher for that internship so like you need to be on the class"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":561.6,"endTime":570.88,"body":"and then I work this week I work for five days so like five days work five days college and that's"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":570.88,"endTime":577.2,"body":"how it is. That's a lot so you're working later you're working like evenings nights that kind of thing"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":577.2,"endTime":584.16,"body":"or yeah so like Wednesday I have college starting from 10 and I have work starting from five so like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":584.16,"endTime":592.4,"body":"I go out of the house at eight catch a bus go to the school and rest for some time sometimes"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":592.4,"endTime":599.12,"body":"and then go to work and be back here around 11ish. Oh that's a long day. Yeah."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":601.2,"endTime":607.6,"body":"So most of these friends you're talking about are they students working as well in the similar"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":607.6,"endTime":614.08,"body":"situation? Ah yes like they were my friends from back in Nepal so like we have a whole house"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":614.08,"endTime":621.36,"body":"and only the friends live like we have five friends and we we we took the whole house and then we"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":621.36,"endTime":627.28,"body":"lived in the same house and we work in the same like restaurant and we go to the same school."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":628.08,"endTime":632.56,"body":"Yeah wow well that's nice so you're with your with friends like all the time."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":632.56,"endTime":640.0,"body":"I feel like I've never far away from my family because of my friends so like that's also another thing"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":640.0,"endTime":646.8,"body":"that is needed in the foreign country. Yeah and are you cooking nappali food all the time or"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":646.8,"endTime":656.48,"body":"all the time like week day and night. And you're all guys? Yeah and you know how to cook. Yeah"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":657.84,"endTime":664.56,"body":"this country trained me in a way to cook food because back in Nepal I used to cook"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":664.56,"endTime":672.72,"body":"once a month not even once a month and now it's like morning evening every time. Now you have no"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":672.72,"endTime":679.12,"body":"choice right? No choice. Yeah there's no one else to cook for you. Yeah. So your friends are"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":679.12,"endTime":685.84,"body":"did they get there before you or after you are you know where are they in terms of their progression?"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":686.48,"endTime":693.28,"body":"So like two of my friends they were here six months before me and three of us we came together"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":693.28,"endTime":703.6,"body":"and like even they finished school six eight months back I think so like they're in their work"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":703.6,"endTime":709.52,"body":"permit but they're looking for a job right now. Right okay so when you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":709.52,"endTime":716.16,"body":"applying get accepted into a school and you finish your studies automatically you can work for"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":716.16,"endTime":723.52,"body":"a certain period of time is it still that way? Yes like if you take one year post graduate diploma"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":723.52,"endTime":729.44,"body":"you get one year of work permit and if you take two courses of the same thing like post graduate"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":729.44,"endTime":737.28,"body":"diploma you get three years of the work permit. So you're doing one of those? I'm about diploma course."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":737.28,"endTime":745.6,"body":"I get three years of work permit. No 22 April 2023 I took one course and from September 2023 to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":745.6,"endTime":753.12,"body":"like now I'm doing another course. I see I see and then the hope is that after your work permit you can"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":753.12,"endTime":760.08,"body":"get permanent residency is that it? Yes that's the goal. Okay now I know that the Canadian government"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":760.08,"endTime":768.0,"body":"just now is really really tightening the the accessibility for international students they cut it"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":768.0,"endTime":774.16,"body":"way way down for the coming year I think but this won't affect you right? Ah no no like the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":774.16,"endTime":780.96,"body":"students that are here in Canada the rules won't affect to them like those who are coming in September"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":780.96,"endTime":789.2,"body":"this year the rules are applied to those students. Hey so some students who already got accepted"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":789.2,"endTime":796.32,"body":"won't be able to come do you think? Ah like if we talk about the private schools and if they are"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":796.32,"endTime":802.32,"body":"enrolled they are admitted in the private schools, private colleges and they are coming in September"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":803.28,"endTime":810.72,"body":"they won't be able to get the post graduate like PZWP the work permit that will be getting after the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":810.72,"endTime":818.56,"body":"course because they made a new rule that private colleges won't be allowed to give the work permit."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":818.56,"endTime":825.28,"body":"Okay but the public the public institutions hasn't changed. No for the work permit."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":825.84,"endTime":836.32,"body":"I see I see and I think Ontario is cutting off like 50 50 percent of the students this year. Yeah"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":836.32,"endTime":842.96,"body":"because a huge number yeah you're talking about the students like when I got admitted here I was"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":842.96,"endTime":848.4,"body":"enrolled in a course called Practical Animations of Mechanical Engineering and we had three sections"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":849.6,"endTime":858.72,"body":"and I met a friend last night and then those six and Zare increased to seven just you can imagine"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":858.72,"endTime":865.76,"body":"how much students are coming in. I think like I haven't lived in Canada well I lived there until"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":865.76,"endTime":873.12,"body":"2016 and came here when I know just the change in universities when I go back sometimes I take a"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":873.12,"endTime":878.24,"body":"part-time course or something it's changed so much you see so many international students"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":879.12,"endTime":884.48,"body":"but you're not worried about any of this. Oh no even the students those have applied before"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":884.48,"endTime":891.76,"body":"January 15th they are good after January 15th they need to have the attestation later."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":891.76,"endTime":899.2,"body":"Okay so you're you're in Canada you're working you're studying you're going to have your"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":899.2,"endTime":905.36,"body":"probably your work permit that's the plan so you have three years of working time and during that time"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":905.36,"endTime":910.32,"body":"you want to find a job in your area as a mechanical engineer that's the plan right? Yes"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":910.32,"endTime":916.64,"body":"and then okay let's say you do that where do you see yourself in five years or ten years?"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":916.64,"endTime":926.16,"body":"Like the plan here is to like stay for a while again the experience and I want to start something"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":926.16,"endTime":933.2,"body":"in my country like I have promised my brother when I left like he motivated me to come out of the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":933.2,"endTime":940.64,"body":"Nepal like he told me that there is nothing here and even I researched it and I found nothing in Nepal"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":940.64,"endTime":948.48,"body":"so like we had a plan that you go study I'll be here in Nepal I'll look after the things here I'll"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":948.48,"endTime":956.56,"body":"look after the the issues and the what do you call that the problem and we will find a solution"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":956.56,"endTime":962.56,"body":"and we'll start something here so like even I'm into designing so I I want to be a mechanical design"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":962.56,"endTime":970.0,"body":"engineer in future and after that my plan is to shift back to Nepal like after the PR"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":970.0,"endTime":977.84,"body":"that's the plan okay is this older brother? Yes is my older brother is three years? How many"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":977.84,"endTime":983.84,"body":"brothers how many brothers and sisters do you have? Just one I have one brother he is three year"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":983.84,"endTime":990.16,"body":"older than me and we studied in the same college like university back in Bangalore"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":990.8,"endTime":998.88,"body":"like he's a garden for me like that go to version you know right right right it gives you all your advice"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":998.88,"endTime":1008.0,"body":"and yeah okay okay and do you know people who have done what you what your plan is like do you know"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1008.0,"endTime":1015.04,"body":"people who have followed that same track go abroad study and wanting to go back and they go back"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1015.04,"endTime":1019.12,"body":"and then they they set up a successful business has that happened to anyone you know?"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1020.56,"endTime":1026.08,"body":"the person I know no because I have not seen anybody because like you know"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1026.08,"endTime":1034.64,"body":"when you move out of the country you get compressed like you are in a room and you it's locked"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1034.64,"endTime":1041.84,"body":"because like if I buy a phone I need to pay it on the the interest that I need to pay and then if I"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1041.84,"endTime":1046.72,"body":"buy a car the install me I need to pay and the mortgage is an all and everything like they bind you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1046.72,"endTime":1056.56,"body":"to go out so my plan is like to get out of those things to get out of the room and move back to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1056.56,"endTime":1065.44,"body":"Nebel like now I think like that but I don't know it's just in my head but in near future I think I"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1065.44,"endTime":1072.88,"body":"will make it possible so you don't want to tie yourself down with any big financial commitments"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1072.88,"endTime":1079.36,"body":"right now but okay that's great personally I'm happy to hear that you want to come back to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1079.36,"endTime":1084.64,"body":"Nepal because of course you know better than I know that so many people are leaving the country"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1084.64,"endTime":1091.44,"body":"right I heard this incredible figure the other day I mean these are these are people going out to work"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1091.44,"endTime":1100.08,"body":"right so the so-called labor migrants in a month 71,000 people got a letter permitting them to go"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1100.08,"endTime":1108.0,"body":"right and then another figure I saw in a year last fiscal year 45,000 students got a letter to leave"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1108.0,"endTime":1115.36,"body":"the country and I'm sure it's going to be as many or more this year yeah so that's a lot of people"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1115.36,"endTime":1125.92,"body":"living in the country in a way the government is lacking and we are lacking in Nepal because like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1125.92,"endTime":1131.36,"body":"we don't have anything to work like the roommate that I live with he's a gold medalist"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1131.36,"endTime":1137.76,"body":"and he left Nepal the government could have easily told him to stay like give him a position"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1137.76,"endTime":1146.8,"body":"and what not and they let us go that's the problem and we don't have anything to like stay because"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1146.8,"endTime":1154.88,"body":"there is nothing to research and there is no industries so you're your friend gold medalist you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1154.88,"endTime":1162.88,"body":"said you mean like an academic gold medalist he's not an athlete okay okay so obviously you must"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1162.88,"endTime":1167.76,"body":"think that he has like a bright super bright future ahead of all right lots of potential"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1167.76,"endTime":1175.84,"body":"he is like three years he's my brother's friend actually like he when I was enrolled in the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1175.84,"endTime":1183.92,"body":"university like Bangalore he was my super senior so like even he motivates me to find a job and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1184.48,"endTime":1191.76,"body":"like look for a job even I have two months into my studies like after two months I'm getting"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1191.76,"endTime":1199.36,"body":"what do you call the graduated and from this day like from a month back I'm searching for a job"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1199.36,"endTime":1205.68,"body":"because you don't find a job easily even in your field so like it's very tough so and even"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1205.68,"endTime":1213.6,"body":"there are so many certification course you need to do and then because here everything is certification"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1213.6,"endTime":1221.28,"body":"right it's tough so how do your parents and the bigger family feel about you leaving"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1221.28,"endTime":1230.88,"body":"I was working in a like people in Nepal know Cypriot it's sales and service for Tata Motors"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1230.88,"endTime":1239.6,"body":"and I used to work as an intern as a service engineer and they would have eventually converted me into"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1239.6,"endTime":1247.2,"body":"into a service engineer and all I was in my training itself and my father says every day it's like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1247.2,"endTime":1252.56,"body":"every time I call him he says this things could have been better here and he he's like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1252.56,"endTime":1260.48,"body":"even if you stayed here it could have been better but like it's better for him right and I'm not"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1260.48,"endTime":1268.48,"body":"being selfish but you have to be selfish sometimes for your career and I told him that I'll go there"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1268.48,"endTime":1273.84,"body":"I'll earn some experience I'll earn some knowledge and skills and then I'll come back"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1273.84,"endTime":1279.12,"body":"and I have asked him give me five years time and then I'll come back to you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1279.12,"endTime":1283.92,"body":"okay you haven't been back here in Nepal since you left"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1283.92,"endTime":1291.6,"body":"when will you come back like for a visit I wanted to come back in this July I think because my"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1291.6,"endTime":1301.68,"body":"brother is getting married but the situation is I need to find a job I need to like be settled here"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1301.68,"endTime":1309.68,"body":"those are the small sacrifices that I need to do to excel in my life so like I told him"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1309.68,"endTime":1318.32,"body":"that I might or might not come but like I try my heart to be there but I don't think I'll be"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1318.32,"endTime":1325.04,"body":"be going there yeah that's too bad that's a big big event you're going to miss"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1325.04,"endTime":1333.44,"body":"yeah it's a big event yeah and if you don't mind me asking what about money like how"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1333.44,"endTime":1341.68,"body":"difficult is this financially for you and your family is it like a really big kind of sacrifice"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1341.68,"endTime":1349.52,"body":"for the family for you to be there or not so bad it's not so bad because like I had collected some"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1349.52,"endTime":1357.12,"body":"money from the school fees and all and I couldn't do it myself on my own like on my own and they"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1357.12,"endTime":1364.48,"body":"helped me with it and it's not like that difficult but it's somehow difficult because we are"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1365.44,"endTime":1372.8,"body":"middle-class family so like it's not too much money and all and when you were planning to go to"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1372.8,"endTime":1380.08,"body":"Canada and you were doing all of your paperwork and online work and were you able to do all of that"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1380.08,"endTime":1387.68,"body":"yourself or did you pay one of these so-called consultants to do a lot of the applications and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1387.68,"endTime":1394.96,"body":"that kind of thing how did that work like I I went into a consultancy and like I paid some amount"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1395.44,"endTime":1403.52,"body":"but I had the school in mine I had the course in mine and like I did everything they just filed my"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1403.52,"endTime":1408.72,"body":"application I did the C-reports and all the processing things I don't know because I was not that"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1408.72,"endTime":1418.8,"body":"confident enough to face the rejection so that's why I took that help I see okay okay yeah that's a"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1418.8,"endTime":1424.08,"body":"huge business now also right with the number of students going overseas then the number of these"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1424.08,"endTime":1431.36,"body":"consultancy is just you know ballooning like crazy but I think because of the cap their"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1431.36,"endTime":1440.56,"body":"business are going down now because the student they are not so intrigued by the situation in Canada"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1440.56,"endTime":1448.72,"body":"enough it's not that bad but like they don't want to come here and the minimum pay is minimum it's"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1448.72,"endTime":1453.44,"body":"better to go to Australia than come to Canada so like many of people are shifting there"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1453.44,"endTime":1460.64,"body":"hey that's interesting you should say because one of the reasons why I'm focusing on migration now"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1460.64,"endTime":1468.64,"body":"with this podcast is I meet a lot of people you know at a shop or a party or in the taxi and then they"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1468.64,"endTime":1475.44,"body":"find out I'm from Canada and I would say in the past year there have been more people than ever"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1475.44,"endTime":1483.6,"body":"who have said to me oh my cousin is going to Canada or my uncle lives in Canada or there seem to be like"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1483.6,"endTime":1490.56,"body":"more and more connections between the pollen Canada at first came in 2005 right so almost 20 years"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1490.56,"endTime":1497.76,"body":"so I can see the evolution over time but you're saying that for students it's kind of losing the shine"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1498.4,"endTime":1505.68,"body":"yeah because like it was easier to come to Canada because of the diploma course"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1505.68,"endTime":1515.12,"body":"and if you come here for masters you need to have like 3.2 above GPA and which is not enough for"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1515.12,"endTime":1520.96,"body":"everybody and because of the diploma course many people are coming in and that's the reason"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1521.76,"endTime":1529.6,"body":"they had to put the student cap to cut off the student you can get a PR after three four years because"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1529.6,"endTime":1538.56,"body":"it's not that tough that was the appealing thing and now it's there are too much student a less job"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1538.56,"endTime":1546.88,"body":"so like you told that the market is ballooning here right okay and tell me something else you know"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1546.88,"endTime":1552.64,"body":"we talked a little bit about you living with your friends and you know you're all from Nepal you know"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1552.64,"endTime":1560.8,"body":"each other from before you studied together sounds like you get along quite well so I'm thinking"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1560.8,"endTime":1568.88,"body":"for you to be in a new country a completely different culture it's a bit different because you are"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1568.88,"endTime":1575.76,"body":"in a new country but you're still living with all of your friends and cooking nappali and do you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1575.76,"endTime":1581.52,"body":"feel like there's some sort of culture shock or just like an adjustment that you have to make or"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1581.52,"endTime":1588.72,"body":"not really because of your situation even if there was not a situation like me there are so many"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1588.72,"endTime":1595.92,"body":"immigrants yet like we love Indian food and Indian culture right and we even on the TVs we see the"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1595.92,"endTime":1603.12,"body":"Indian movies and all so there are many Indians here and then many nappali is here Nepalese here and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1604.48,"endTime":1613.2,"body":"so like it's not that much and even I'm living with my friends like we don't miss Nepal right now"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1613.2,"endTime":1618.8,"body":"and even the momos and the food that we really miss we cook it and we eat it together"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1618.8,"endTime":1625.92,"body":"like the culture shock is not there for me right okay are there any nappali restaurants there or"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1625.92,"endTime":1632.4,"body":"Indian we have few nappali restaurants and a lot of Indian restaurants and the authentic restaurants"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1632.4,"endTime":1639.04,"body":"in the Nepal direction I have seen is two okay I use this has been very interesting is there"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1639.04,"endTime":1644.32,"body":"something else you want to talk to me about like I want to say something for the student that"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1644.32,"endTime":1650.96,"body":"are coming in I took my first course which was practical elements of mechanical engineering"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1650.96,"endTime":1658.8,"body":"and on my second semester we had a capstone project in that project you need to form a group"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1658.8,"endTime":1664.48,"body":"and then you need to do the project so like I had one friend with me and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1664.48,"endTime":1673.36,"body":"we we started doing the project and we failed in that subject because like I was responsible for"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1673.36,"endTime":1679.6,"body":"the machining thing with the lathe and all so I was into machining and he was into documenting"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1679.6,"endTime":1688.4,"body":"everything and he didn't properly documented the thing and the professor failed us because of"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1688.4,"endTime":1698.64,"body":"those things and whenever you fail you need to take the course as a part-time student and you"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1698.64,"endTime":1706.8,"body":"cannot work as a part-time student like you can learn two things from the from this from my experience"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1706.8,"endTime":1713.12,"body":"find a good partner in your project and the second thing is like don't fail"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1715.36,"endTime":1721.84,"body":"because it'll it'll eat your brain up I think so you're not going to work with our partner again I guess"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1721.84,"endTime":1727.12,"body":"I totally want the face I'm not going to work please leave me alone"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1727.12,"endTime":1736.08,"body":"makes sense yeah you don't want to fail again yeah so I did my project the next time alone I did it all"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1736.08,"endTime":1741.28,"body":"and you passed yeah I got four out of four"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1742.0,"endTime":1748.64,"body":"very good okay well that's good I'm happy to hear that you you succeeded the second time through and"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1748.64,"endTime":1755.6,"body":"learned the lessons also and generally is it more difficult to do the coursework there or here"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1755.6,"endTime":1764.8,"body":"it's easier it's far more easier like my bachelor's I had two exams in a day and this is like two"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1764.8,"endTime":1772.88,"body":"pages for an exam so like it's too easy the the study thing is easy the surviving thing is hard I think"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1772.88,"endTime":1780.88,"body":"all right I use it was great to meet you and I hope that maybe we can talk again thank you for"},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1780.88,"endTime":1787.68,"body":"letting me speak in your podcast and show the thing that I have experienced in my life."},{"speaker":"Aayush Pokharel, welcome to Nepal now","startTime":1787.68,"endTime":1792.32,"body":"Yeah I'm happy to do it okay bye for now bye bye"}]}