The Small Entrepreneur (Interview)
The Small Entrepreneur (Interview)

Summary/Abstract: How I got in this business … I passed the faculty entrance examination during Ceauşescu’s regime, at a time when a student was just a student and the prospects of getting a job were null. I couldn’t get money from home because there wasn’t any to send, and all the money I could count on was the pension I got from my dad. So I slowly began to learn: I divided my ration card … Back then they didn’t give us the scholarship money directly. We had a ration card and a seat a day or something like that … When I was in my second year, I took a part-time job at a school, and so did a colleague of mine from the faculty. We supported each other and together we began to sell things to students in the hostel.

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