I know many Moldovans that have many different ‘businesses’. Almost everyone in my village has at least a
little land outside of the village which they farm, but on top of that people
have bee hives, sell homemade wine, press sunflower seeds into oil, sell
homemade vodka, grow mushrooms, woodworking and other activities as a way to
make money. This is common/necessary for
many because in my area of Moldova a lot of people have seasonal jobs in the
grape growing and wine making industries.
One of my friends has a metal recycling yard at his home. He buys metal from everyone in the
village. People from all walks of life
sell him metal; you can even see young boys with a little wagon full of bolts
and scrap pieces of metal so they can make enough money to use the internet lab
or purchase some candy to men with some metal on the back of a bicycle to a
tractor pulling a full load metal.
Once a month, or whenever his yard is full of metal, he hires a handful
of men to help load all of the metal, by hand, into a semi that will take it to
a metal recycling facility. I do not
know how profitable this business is, but it is a service to the
community. Because many in the village
to not have vehicles, there is no way to get this metal to a recycling facility
and most people do not have enough metal to make it profitable to rent a vehicle
to take the metal to a facility.
Villages that do not have someone that collects metal generally rely on
people/businesses that sent trucks through the village periodically. One day such a truck was going through our
village, it had a loud speaker on the roof and the driver would go up and down
every road in the village asking if anyone had any scrap metal. Needless to say, the man who runs the metal
purchasing business in my village was not happy. If he found out that someone sold metal to
the man driving the truck he would make sure to visit the house and let them
know that he was purchasing metal in the village and to tell that it would be
better to support someone from the village and also to ask the price that the
other company offered.
3 comments:
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