Engineer for half a century/ Faik Tahiri repairs electrical equipment, he started working when he was 14 years old

“I have been working since I was 14 years old. I started at the Glass Factory in the Textile Factory. So since then, I have been working for half a century. I worked for 9 years in the factory and reached the 7th Master category. Then I worked for about 9 years in the fruit and vegetable market, together with my wife, until the 90s. Democracy came and we work privately. I completed high school and high school as an electrical engineer at night, as I was working and studying. As an engineer, I could not work for a single day, as I did not respond to the party’s call to go to the Koman hydropower plant.

I have no intention of retiring. I don’t expect a pension from these people, that these 200,000 ALL will give me a pension. I am thankful that I have arms and I enjoy good health, that I spend 5 Lek on my own. If you take me now and tell me that I will give a pension of 500 thousand lek per month and stop working, I will not accept it. I heard you shot me. I leave the house at 6 o’clock. In Albania, the work of ustai is not properly paid. I have also worked abroad, I worked for 6 months in Germany with a work visa.

I swear, I left the German speechless and the German left me speechless. He paid me very well, as much as you want. Earning at least 200 euros per day. I came back because I had children. You can’t go outside without your family, it’s impossible. If I were 40 years old now, I know what I was doing. I would run away to Germany. For me, young people should leave an hour earlier, because they have no prospects here. The state does not help you. Open a business, he does not give you a will. The world outside keeps you on probation for 6 months, no license, no dues. It didn’t work, it doesn’t bear any tax. But these do not give you any kind of stimulus.

I don’t take vacations, I work non-stop all week. Not a single Sunday, and even from 1990 until now, I haven’t had a single day at the beach.” said Faik Tahiri, Master and Electrical Engineer.

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