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ISSUE 21, JUNE 2019
in Bulgaria, but the truth is that I don’t. It will probably
be somewhere else, but still in Europe. I really like Europe.
Yes, I get in a taxi – it has no seat belts in the back. I go to
a club – they’re smoking inside. All these things just annoy
me so much, I mean even on a daily level. Because, of course,
corruption and all that sort of thing is terrible, but in my
personal day-to-day life I get a lot of these things where people
don’t follow the rules, and also when driving. People getting
out of their cars to attack me – yeah – these things happen.
Maybe teaching at the University of Sheffield? 
Could be, why not?
Do you have regrets from your time at ACS?
Really?
Well, I think I should have studied a bit harder, to be fair.
I don’t even know how I graduated. So I think I should
have done that, it probably would have helped. And also,
maybe I should have been a bit more social at the time. I
was a strange kid. But as teenagers many people are. I think
working on my grades and my social interactions would
have been pretty nice.
It depends on what car I’m driving. When I was in my
personal Mini Cooper, I got a lot of aggression. When
I drive a Maserati, for example, there’s none, and I drive
exactly the same way. So these are things that would never
happen to me anywhere else that I’ve lived.
Right, I will give you that I agree that we as a people
are not really keen on following these rules. To us they
are more like guidelines. But then have you thought of
ways that this could change?
How about anything after that?
Yeah, well, I thought about that myself not so long ago,
actually. I was 28, had just graduated a year before and, in
a way, I had wasted a lot of time in my twenties, but it was
such a nice way of wasting time. So, I came to the conclusion
that I do not regret at all the mistakes I made and all the
wasted time, because I didn’t do anything majorly stupid
in my twenties, I just did a lot of small stupid things. But
overall, I’m quite happy with how this time passed.
“I do not regret at all the mistakes
I made and all the wasted time,
because I didn’t do anything
majorly stupid in my twenties.”
Where would you like to live?
I think that I would like Switzerland or Austria, because
I like the Alps and I like to be close to the sea. But from
experience, I feel best in the UK or in the Netherlands.
I’ve never lived in Switzerland, so it could be a huge
disappointment.
I have and I don’t think there is a possibility, unfortunately.
I’m very disappointed with all this. And also, when I was
living in Bulgaria before, I was a member of an organization
that ran a project specifically about culture on the road.
We did nothing, of course, and even some of the people
who were on this project, when they were driving, they
wouldn’t put their indicator on, for example. So I don’t
think it would ever happen, not in my lifetime anyway.
I hear it’s nice.
Yeah, me too, but from what I’ve heard, people over there
follow the rules quite closely, which is a must for me,
because that’s my biggest issue in Bulgaria.
I had hoped you would be more optimistic...
I was going to ask, is that what bothers you most about
Bulgaria?
Not at all. I think that now I have learned, partially,
to accept it. And, I mean, I know it’s not right for me.
Unfortunately in ten years’ time, or even in two years’ time
I don’t see myself in Bulgaria.
Although your business is here?
Well, that’s actually why I came back, that and my
girlfriend, and it was because I wanted to start it here,
because it’s a good place for manufacturing, we have a good
connection with Asia for suppliers, like in Varna. Well,
the location is good, labor is cheap, for now, although I
am planning on paying proper salaries, unlike other small
manufacturers. But the thing is, even if manufacturing is
here, I could just visit it once a month, once it’s up and
running and just live elsewhere.
That makes me wonder, if treating workers respectfully
won’t be part of the change we’re looking for.
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