Maqbool Mirza

While talking about my side hustles alongside the Yellow Pages job, I felt like talking about the city, the culture, and the overall feel of the place I was roaming around in. My mornings were spent at ICMA H-9 campus (where, mostly, I was sleeping in class), and my days

Before moving to the story of side hustles alongside my job at Yellow Pages, I want to talk about my perspective on entrepreneurship, economics, finances, and career choices. My first job was something like, “You need to work to survive,” or “If you won’t work, who will give you money?”

Anything and everything I remember about economics from my academic years is the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. It applies to me in the sense that one always looks for change—something new, something different, something never experienced before. While recollecting memories of my first formal job, it’s not that I’m

The Yellow Pages job technically was not my first endeavour towards earning a livelihood. On a very small scale, I had also started a small academy for teaching after my FSC in Sector G-8, Islamabad. I also tried to start a magazine, “The Citizen”, around that age. All those failed

In the last post, I mentioned my visit to a university and the nostalgia I felt about old times. But somehow that nostalgia does not confine itself to one particular period of university days only; rather, it has provoked a whole spectrum of memories. The more specific one is the