hello everyone and welcome to the another episode of stories rejection these episodes
are usually long so there will be timestamps in the description below for you to skip around
and also i would like to thank our sponsor for today's episode skillshare and we'll
be talking more about them further in this video so today as our guest we have called
me walid he himself has got his own youtube channel moreover most importantly he's a
very experienced person because he came here in 2018 so with loads of experience and that's what
i'll try to explore and provide some information to the audience who's watching it
with this i'll directly put spotlight on me then i would request him doing videos
please do it uh thank you so much jashandi for inviting me i studied in manchester metropolitan
in electrical and electronics engineering i came back in 2018 for two years course actually uh this
was a transfer program from pakistan to to the uk so i studied my foundation year and the first year
in pakistan than the rest of the two years in manchester metropolitan so my my overall
experience in the uk was truly amazing there are lots of ups and downs whether it's job whether
it's your course whether it's studying in a you know different kind of a university but overall
my experience was like really good and you know when you when you study um in a country where
you where you never have been and when you move to a different culture it truly is an
amazing experience yes you struggle a lot but you learn a lot that's the most important thing
well great thanks for sharing this to me so i just want to come to i'm like bit curious
about this like since you are right now in the pakistan so my like it's like the major
question which i had in my mind was that why did you left uk so what was the reason behind that
so the main reason for leaving the uk was uh the koi the um quote 19.
so back in um march um you know the march 2020 the kovit you know just started gaining
the rhythm and there were a lot of cases in the uk so my all colleagues especially from pakistan
from the manchester university as well as from my university they all left the country because
there was too much hype of kobe that you know it's the death rate is going up and you know
so on so uh i i wasn't sure like i i have to go to pakistan or not and that was my final year as well
and my visa was going to expire on october 2020 so i had a limited time to think about it since
pakistan and and the uk had already announced that they are going to shut down their borders or
you know the airspace so within our day i had to you know decide everything i had a pressure of my
family as well because they were really worried about what's going on in the uk and you know at
that time uk was the i think the second target um uh i would say after italy because you know
uh they are linked to each other since uh the european union so uh that's why you know i have
to leave uh uk for um uh for that specific reason um if um you know there was a there was a chance
uh during the covet or if if kowitt had been you know lowered down uh in 2020 i would have come
back to uk but unfortunately you know the airspace was closed and the classes and everything was
online even though i had my final year project i had to do it online and we we made us a small kind
of circuit type thing but you know it was a waste of time you can say because we we didn't get the
chance to present in in front of uh the industry or you know the university you can say so yeah
that's that was the main reason to come back to pakistan yeah i got your point that due to high
number of cases there was a risk that's why you went to pakistan but didn't you have in
your mind like any kind of thinking like like but did you have that mind like you can work in the
uk or like you have some plans off like for the settlement or something like that so my plan was
um you know to work until october since i had the visa till october and um i was thinking like i had
planned this uh like i have to work till october and during that time i have to find some kind of
sponsorship as well to to further you know study or maybe study further or maybe find a find a job
for the so that was my mind but uh unfortunately things didn't go well sometimes you know
what what you think uh so i had to move back to pakistan so well now let us talk about like uh
when you came to the uk did you did any type of part-time jobs yeah so i came back in 2018 so
when i firstly came here no one was like for me no one guided me properly even though the
institution where i was studying in pakistan they didn't give me any clue like how hard or
how you know struggling it is going to be when a new student goes to the uk you know that as
well right so when i went to the uk i actually i was late i i came to the uk on 10th of uh 4th
of october i had to stay in a hotel where it was so expensive and the money i took from pakistan
i just used all of them and i was like broke literally broke and like there was no way to
uh to call back to the parents and ask for money in the second day when you when you leave your
country so it's you know it's difficult task to ask money in the second day of course so i i was
like optimistic to find a job so uh so i started in october then i started finding job then
um after one month i find a job in a university where i had this role of international calling
conversation so we had to talk to the international students and convince them
to join like my university let's say manchester metropolitan so i started that job and it was
like for for a week hardly so uh the problem was their payout date was in december so i had to wait
uh a whole month so then i i started finding other jobs so so then um i you know i contacted a friend
within the uk then he told me that there is a restaurant in um in manchester so you can
go there and you can ask them for part-time job so i went there and i find my first job
in a restaurant then i you know started slowly uh to build the momentum like how part-time job
uh works uh because i i wasn't like used to that culture you know so here in pakistan we
do not work until we graduate so yeah one year i did that job in the second year i just uh like
left the job because of the exams and you know the ramadan we have to fast for whole months
so i thought like it's going to be difficult because it was first time that i had to work
i had to fast as well a whole day so i left that job and then after the summer or maybe in
i think in the summer yes so i find another job which was one of the most expensive restaurants
in the in manchester so i utilized my experience and i joined that restaurant and it was a pretty
pretty good job and pretty a good experience since i'm i'm a food lover as well so if you are
a food lover you should do a job in restaurant maybe for a month or two just for experience
because you never know like maybe after two or three years you have a hospitality business so
my plan is for hospitality business in pakistan in future maybe after five years three years ten
years so that experience will be used here so that's why i plan that way that okay so
whether it's paying me a good or not or maybe other jobs are paying me well but this experience
is going to be uh helpful for me in the future so yeah so two years non-stop uh part-time jobs
great great button for this please just having to add like bit more perspective for the audience so
your second job uh you got through your references so for your university job like which you got in
the university how were you able to get that job so was it through online applications to
university yeah there was a uh online application like it was uh through the university website um i
was searching for the job so uh it was i think in the you know the indeed dot co dot uk where
yeah people post the job so i saw the university ad there so i just applied and they they called me
next day and yeah just started got it got it and and basically was the same for your restaurant job
as well in the manchester which you did was that through indeed or was it some other references
the reference is worked out for my for my both of the restaurant jobs for the for the birth
yeah oh okay okay well yeah so the reference is very important yeah the thing i want to mention
here for the people that do networking there is a saying like your network is your net worth
so this is very important i've learned this now and i'm trying to do the networking stuff
now because before i was like a shy guy or i don't interact to many people so i might
introvert myself but it doesn't mean that if you are introvert you don't connect to the people so
networking is very important you will find a lot of jobs through referrals and that's what
happened in in like everywhere in the world you will see like referrals give people jobs so that's
very important for you and for other people who are watching that do networking this is a must
yeah yeah yeah and like if someone is like new like they think that how how should they
be networking so what i believe is like in my term i think linkedin is a good resource you
can allow you to network and me do you want to add any other resource which you've got in your mind
for networking for networking uh linkedin is very important uh facebook groups are very important uh
like relevant to your field let's say i'm working in e-commerce so i have joined all e-commerce
groups whether it's british whether it's american whether it's local whether it's indian or any else
because you don't know where you will you know from where you'll find your friends or maybe
your network so facebook is one of the and the the other is like twitter uh you keep on tweeting and
you you stay active in the social media so each social media platform can be used for networking
but the professional most professional one is as you said is linkedin that's how i got my job in
the american agency as oh wow well that's so nice yeah exactly for linkedin it really uh do amazing
things because in my university there was one person he actually failed his master's degree
so he just got so if you pass you get a master's degree if you fail like in few modules you get a
diploma if you then feel you get a certificate so he was the one who got certificate
and he wasn't able to find any job because he had a certificate well he connected with one person
through linkedin and he got a sponsor job for himself so that's like the wonders which linkedin
can really you know if you network with people true and well so i want to ask you one question
that uh it's just like i want to get you a bit of a perspective over here that well now since you're
from pakistan right so did you experience any kind of bridge some or any other thing like that
like maybe with the indian people or like any such experience which you had or was it like
very friendly country very peaceful everyone was welcoming how has your experience been with that
my overall experience was really good i didn't find like many people bad over in the in the uk
especially my experience with indian people was like really nice to be honest uh we used to play
cricket together in in our manchester metropolitan university uh so there was like no other people
other than pakistanis and indians who who were you know just playing cricket there so we we had uh
we had our teams like not like pakistan india like mix so so yeah for with indian people the
experience was really nice and as you know that my majority of subscribers are from india so
they really like my content and you know so in the uk specifically was really good with that uh
in uh if you talk about the jobs uh where you face kind of racism as well if you work under you know
british people especially because you know they are some people are like that but majority are
you know good enough uh to work with it depends on what attitude you have towards the work or towards
the people and how you want to you know connect to the people and how you want to proceed so that's
i think very important if you are nice with the people the people will be nice with you
exactly exactly i think it has been saved my experience as well everyone was very
welcoming even at my university since i have been wearing this terpene so like people were
really uh curious that well they are painted let us know more about them so they were very
curious rather than being racist or anything like that so it has been exactly the same experience
you guys indeed a very peaceful country yeah so before moving to the next segment of this
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video and well i want to ask you a question regarding manchester metropolitan university
now let's say if there's a student like what kind of courses would you recommend them to come in the
manchester metropolitan university which are the courses which you will say that well this is the
university you should be selecting for this course i would say as of my two years experience that the
business school of manchester metropolitan is really really good and their business course
is absolutely amazing their law course is amazing even though if you do engineering
uh it's still good as well but um i've heard that it's not like one of the top schools um in in
all over the uk but yeah it's it's still good you know the learning and all is really um
you know helpful for you for your um you know job and for your all like in the future
so for me engineering is still fine it i find it easy so that's why i recommend if you want to do
electrical engineering especially go to manchester metropolitan uh since you will graduate easily you
will do that your task is you know these uh we we call them like manchester metropolitan or any
other university we call them like a non-russell group so the non-russell group is uh very
beneficial for international students especially because they help you a lot in the in the russell
group like manchester university oxford or maybe others uh what happened there is like
they you cannot depend on them it's more of like 90 percent of self-study uh it's a bit hard as
well so whereas in the non-russell group like manchester metropolitan university if you are
struggling something you you just go to your professor and you uh you know you ask them for
help the colleagues there or the friends you find are similar to you like they won't help as well so
when you stay together to solve a problem it's easier for you to solve it and
like there is a lot of help in your assignments in solving asylum assignments especially if you are
if you have studied from um like the pakistani system where it's more like theoretical not
practical so these kind of universities help help you a lot for your you know good grades especially
with like limited hours of studying great great thank you me and towards
the end i just want to ask you any concluding remarks any final thoughts any advice for the
prospective students planning to come in the uk i would i would just say one thing
that majority of the students who come to the uk they do not plan their studies
before coming to the uk so plan everything not just studies plan everything uh from your home
country do your research uh do not rely on anyone whether it's me talking here about
my experience or if i'm saying something wrong about let's say a course uh or a university or
something else do not believe in me just do your research do your research google is yours
all yours internet you have the internet you have jason deep you can search his channel he has like
bring lot of new people new faces to his channel he he shares the experience which i do not
literally so do your research and do your planning properly like what you have to do in the next four
years or maybe if you are coming to for the masters in for the next one year so i would
say that do your planning planning is very important before coming to the uk so the first
year in the uk for you plays a very very important part if you um go through that year very well then
you you're not gonna struggle for the next three years or maybe two years or one year
so that's what i have to say and i would request every one of you to please subscribe to jason
deep channel not mine if you are not subscribed to mine it's okay but do uh subscribe because
uh his content is literally amazing and no one makes like him he's he's a unique guy
so must subscribe to his channel now thank you so much for your kind words i don't know about
uniqueness but really this means a lot for your work and i mean like for uh like having
conversation with you i learned a lot and the one thing which i really liked about miesha
was that the any of the videos which he make this is what actually happens in the uk so there
will be few people like that doesn't happens in the uk but like the videos which i've saw
that exactly what will be happening with you and that's why related with his content a lot
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