Romanian Businessman Blog

Why this blog?

As a businessman in Romania I have reasons to “go Canada” everyday. In interacting with people, laws, events and prospects, a Romanian businessman must be a Rambo not to get emotionally involved up to the level of madness. As far as I observed, every Romanian businessman will face (usually weekly) a large array of emotional events from “fuckit!” to “I will go to Canada!” or “I have to start-up that offshore asap!”. There are rare those weeks when you have no major reason to get in a major state of depression and even so, you know that the silence is only a sign of the storm that is about to come.

This might seem a pretty bleak perspective to you, but trust me: doing business in Romania is probably harder than doing business on the Moon. Of course, if you try to do it right, correct and waiting for benefits. Once you can drop any of these aspirations, life is easier. If you can do the job approximately, you will have reasons to believe at least you have some clue why things are not working as they should. If you accept not to do it correct, welcome to Romania, the country of every possibilities. If you are not awaiting tangible benefits you are also very wanted here. The state is just about to raise the taxes.

There are a lot of posts this blog could have had already accumulated since I am a businessman. I hope I will recall some and post them even if the action took place some time ago. But I am also sure that I will have a lot of things to write about as business in Romania is “welcome to the jungle”.

I will not mention names in this blog since I am not trying to judge, I am only trying to present how things work. I am also considering myself a part of the system and a reason for “system failure”. From the the start I confess that I am not considering myself a very good business man, since so far I have not foud the way to “push the envelope” and try to find an easier way in the maze. I to hope things will get better and this is the reason I am still a Romanian businessman and not a Canadian businessman.