{"id":36380,"date":"2019-10-10T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pivaraskopje.com.mk\/po-skalilata-na-uspehot-bob-smit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:25:21","slug":"stairway-to-success-with-bob-smith-the-work-experience-in-ones-youth-is-priceless-those-are-the-first-steps-to-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pivaraskopje.com.mk\/en\/stairway-to-success-with-bob-smith-the-work-experience-in-ones-youth-is-priceless-those-are-the-first-steps-to-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"STAIRWAY TO SUCCESS WITH BOB SMITH: THE WORK EXPERIENCE IN ONE\u2019S YOUTH IS PRICELESS-THOSE ARE THE FIRST STEPS TO INDEPENDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Their personal qualities brought them huge professional success. Today they are members of management teams and are leading some of the most successful companies in the country. These are the stories of our successful people that we will be publishing in the articles \u201cStairway to Success\u201d. Fakulteti.mk and the Educational Center of Pivara Skopje through the training \u201cSkills for Success\u201d are showing you the road to the stars.
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Born in Beverwijk, grew up in Schoorl, located 5km from the North Sea. They went swimming there in the middle of the summer when the water was only 13 to 17 degrees Celsius. This is why Dutch people bathe in the Ohrid Lake in the spring! This is the story of Bob Smith, a Dutch who speaks Macedonian excellently and who, in 2002 decided to move to Macedonia. Today he is the executive director of the Dutch \u2013Macedonian Chamber of Commerce-NL Chamber (http:\/\/www.nlchamber.org.mk\/<\/a>). Led by the principles that anything is possible, that high school students in Macedonia should work during the summer holidays in order to feel what personal earnings mean, that the economy demands efficiency, Smith says that Macedonia has a lot of unexploited potential. This is his stairway to success.<\/p>

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His father, an engineer at Tata Steel as a child took him to the factory to show him the entire process of steel production-from furnaces to continuous casting to rolling. Enormous machines and cranes, high temperatures, dust and the odor of lubricants\u2026Smith says that production processes fascinate him even today. He graduated from high school at Alkmaar and he attended various classes such as Dutch, English and German languages, economy and natural sciences (physics, chemistry and mathematics). At that time he was quite interested in acting. He was member of a small group of actors and was active in the school\u2019s acting groups. For the play at the municipal theatre they had even sold out the tickets for four evenings in a row.<\/p>

Right after he graduated he went for a six week trip across Europe with the Interrail Railway. He was very interested in Eastern Europe and he was sorry he could not feel the atmosphere in Germany before the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. His first destination was Prague then Budapest and Athens.<\/p>

-It was 1993 and I had told my parents I was planning to travel via Italy but I followed the tips of other young tourists to take a shot cut through Yugoslavia. And so, I got my first visa at the Yugoslavian Embassy in Budapest. Last year when the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs visited the country, Mr. Stef Blok, he told me it was not his first time in Skopje. When he travelled from Budapest to Athens many years ago, in the middle of the night he opened his eyes and realized that he had arrived in Skopje but kept on sleeping. I literally did the same thing! I had no idea that 10 years later I would be living in Skopje!-Smith says.<\/p>

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In the years after this trip he had taken many visas-for Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus-Sankt Petersburg immediately stole his heart.<\/p>

I looked for broadness in education<\/strong><\/p>

He was always thrilled with the food industry and he almost studied food technology at the University of Wageningen but he did not want to specialize in just one area. Today he is well connected with the University.<\/p>

-At the moment the University of Wageningen has a very hard working Rector with vast work experience in public institutions, businesses and the world of science, Ms. Louise Fresco (link to bio: http:\/\/www.louiseofresco.com\/HTML\/UK_BIOlong.html). I would very much love to bring her here to inspire us all! Her way of explaining things on the importance of the feeding technology of the world is beautiful.<\/p>