WE REPRESENT MILA VUJIC
We would introduce MILA VUJIC, private
entrepreneurs and a member of the female COORDINATION BOARD Enterprise
"Theodore"
When did you begin own business and did
you have any previous experience in business?I have to
admit that as a student I didnt have a lot of experience. But the practical
work in secondary school, the famous "practice" and part-time jobs increased
the budget of my own "pocket money" that has always been insufficient. Such
experience turned out to be very important to me. It all started with my
wish to help to a friend of my relative. I can remember how astonished I was
while looking at all the tracks passing down the streets. It was not until
then that I started paying attention to them. Very soon I was persuaded that
I was God given for this job. All these situations looked as a movie and I
stated to be an assistant to many people and companies. And I got the
nickname "hard cub" I felt as Alisa in the wonderland not even having the
first thought that this game of mine would determine a completely new "role"
for my life ...Life is really a miracle! And as just the life is capable of
it took me to the situation where there was no way back. It was during the
autumn and winter 1991.As it was a crazy idea, I established the company, I
would initiate innovative approach to business, I would move things for
better at least for a millimeter...That is the story about the beginning of
Nissped & MV on 16 January 1992.
What helped you to start the job and did
you have anybodys support?
Strong faith in the idea, a clear picture of how it is to look and what
principles should be to operate the company, the belief that I really can.
The support was from the narrow circle of friends and my grandfather, whose
initials are in the name of the company which have a great value to me. All
think that the initials are mine, but they are not, they are my
grandfathers initials who strongly believed in me. Everybody else including
my parents declared this idea of private business as foolishness.
How did you solve problems in the first
year of business?
The most difficult to me were the prejudices that I encountered in
business contacts, the kind of: Kid, is this a joke? I work for you, do you
use drugs? To the: Give me your ID, it is impossible that you are Mila
Vujic!!? I had to devise reasons for avoiding the "meetings", to look older
...The principle mode of operations has given the results, respect the
agreement and effort of job finishing before the deadline created a number
of associates and partners that their satisfaction with the cooperation made
of those recommendations the specific type of marketing for my company, and
me myself beside good advertisement, got an opportunity to meet and learn
from brilliant mentors which was the pleasure and great honour to me.
Do you think that the business environment
is discriminatory in a relation to the women entrepreneurs?
My personal experience shows that it is much easier to cooperate with the
foreigners because in a large percentage they do not have that kind of
prejudice. On the other hand, negative traditionalistic form makes a large
number of problems I dealt here with. The fact that an enormous number of
people toward women in business relate with the suspicion, speaks in favor
of degree of development in our society and it seems to me that it just has
started to develop. Unfortunately they would be able to do a lot of
inadmissible things to prove that you are not able to manage the company.
Specify the three most current problems in
business.
-Not harmonized legislation of ours and international -The problem of
payment of claims in our country - Not consistent standards above all.
If you were in a position to create an
environment for business development, what would you change?
I would change a lot of that, although there is the indication of moving
toward that course. I realize that the bit quintessence is in the education
system and its reorganization. We already have a problem with the lack of
operational staff. By reforming, modernizing and optimizing services
institutions which directly will lead to, both the time and the nerves
saving. Profit in a culture of communication and the creation of all
segments of the business environment would be dramatically better. Certainly
the attitude that if you earn a budget salary you dont have to work that
much, would be exterminated. The fact that we are again in the period of
being good to be budget payed is alarming enough that any comment is
needlessly. The necessity of changes, the implementation of legislation as
well as deregulation of debt lobbing are basic conditions of the economy
revival. We all know that by the principle of claim slow justice is no
justice. Stimulation rates for the investments and all that I have already
said would be encouragement for many people and be able to heal, not without
the reason inveterate opinion, that the economy has been created by
politicians, which are proved as bad businessmen or even worse that they are
without a day of business experience. If we want changes at the same time to
stay the same we would be spinning in vicious circle.
What your own experience would you like to
represent to the future entrepreneurs?
Always love and believe
in things you do, analyze, be critical as well the self-critical, save your
integrity and dignity, always learn because it is only way to be free, pay
attention to detail, be accurate, dont be lazy - give your maximum, believe
in yourself and always thank people who helped you, and in the end, try to
make of ordinary moments the small joy of life.
Never - do not get involved
in gossips at the working place, do not blame others for your own failure or
defeat, dont lament for destiny, rather take control, dont do the job you
dont like, dont be great just in your success but also in a failure, dont
let hurt vanity control your doings, do not think that you have learned
enough. Dont get discourage, do not forget that behind every success is a
lot of work! Never forget a smile to put on and
never say never!!!
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