1.    How did you came to the leather industry?

My grandfather had a tannery manufacture. I often went to visit him. I saw and witnessed various processing operations, I was also doing some work there. So the tannery became something familiar to me daily, year by year. I attended the economic high school, statistical-accounting section. In the 10th grade, I started to practise at my uncle’s tannery. With this opportunity, I started to carry out the tannery work I was payed for. Family financial needs obliged me to work also during holidays. At the end of high school, I knew the tannery work. I was working in a family business, my uncle needed and trusted me. My mother also worked at the company. I saw a future for me in the tannery. In these conditions, after the baccalaureate and two years of post-secondary school, in order to qualify as a skilled worker, I decided to continue with the tannery. So, in 1993 I became a tanner.

2. What is the job that you are performing in the leather industry?

   Totality of mechanical and chemical operations. Acquisition of raw materials.
3. What qualifications or training did you do to be there?

   On the job qualification.
4. What do you most appreciate in your job?

- the result of my work: an art object, starting from a raw material with an unpleasant look;
- the fact that I am permanently learning;
- the fact that I’m working in a family business, where things are based on harmony.