This brings us to July - Finally

Now in July (The start of Karachi's Monsoon season) things were starting to fall in place. I finally had everything ready except for a generator for the office and employees.

My parents had left for Quetta (Hometown near the Afghan Border) to attend my cousins wedding - where i was supposed to be in a few days time as well. Anyhow i put an add out in the Dawn Newspaper for writers, i think it cost me around 2000 rupees for a small text add, thats about 18 quid. I got over a hundred e mails in response to the add. After going through all of them i narrowed it down to around 5 writers. My cousin offered me to have the interviews at his office, as i dod not have a generator yet and if the electricity was to go during the interviews then i would not be able to test their writing skills.

So it was a saturday and 2 out of the 5 people turned up. I explained what i needed of them then took them upstairs where the computers were ready for them to start their tests. The tests took around 45 minutes and i told the writers i would contact them within a week.

After checking over the work, only 1 of the writers was up to scratch. So i went ahead and called him in for a second interview, where i explained the whole process to him. The problem is he wanted to work from home, i told him i was a bit funny about employees working from home, as i had already hired people working from home while in the uk and it didnt really work out as the work was never on time. But seen as only 1 candidate was successful, i decided to give it a shot.

So i got the writer started and he was supposed to email me the work on a daily basis - guess what - he was late on the first day. I decided to go him the benefit of the doubt and let him continue.

I was now cutting it really close with my cousins wedding. So i went ahead and bought my self a train ticket - i had been on a train before in pakistan, so i thought let me try it again - Now from Karachi to Quetta by air would cost around 5000-8000 rupees one-way, which is around 45-75 quid and will take 1 hour and 15 minutes. The train on the other hand cost 1065 rupees, which is around 7 quid and took around 22 hours give or take a couple of hours.

Now for anyone looking to travel by train in pakistan, if your travelling during the summer, then make sure you go for at least the Lower Ac cabin so that you have air conditioning. and be sure to take a pillow and light blanket with you as well as a packed lunch.