You know what I find funny while I'm reading these things. How many of you guys would be allowed to have odd end jobs in Pakistan? Esp the girls. I doubt anyone would be ok with letting their daughter work in some shop in Pakistan. :-/
And yet it's ok to be a receptionist in Clark's? I bet you wouldn't have been a receptionist at Bata. Not with those perverted uncles with a foot fetish working there. :o
your right, an "odd job" is quite an unwelcome proposition in india too not just for girls, for guys as well. Even something as normal as being a hair stylist is only picking up now as a respectable/acceptable thing to be/do with ammas/papas not cringing while telling their circle about it.