This photograph was taken at the Rhapsody Hotel in 2005, at the meeting marking the 50th anniversary of the graduation of the commercial high school, the Technical Middle School of Statistics, as it was called. We organized a meeting every five years here, in Botosani. First and foremost, the first on my left is my wife, Aurelia Rotariu, I, Saul Rotariu, am the one next to her, then Mr. Mihai Anton, who works as an accountant for the [Jewish] Community but is a Christian. In the back row, standing between me and my sister is Armanu, a colleague of mine, and the other persons are from Israel, the one in the back on the right is also a colleague of mine whose name I forget, the woman standing in the middle is named Ethel, and the last name of the woman on the left in the front row is Kohn; I forget her first name.
My modernist, present-day story has nothing special about it. I graduated from high school in 1955. After graduation, I worked for two years as an accountant in Saveni, at an agricultural machine and tractor station. My father worked there as an accountant as well and, since he worked there, I ended up working there as well. Two years later I was drafted into the army. After completing my military service I attended university. I went to college in Iasi, under the optional attendance system, for four years. I worked for and studied at the Faculty of Accounting simultaneously. I worked in Saveni and then moved to Botosani in 1961. I've been working here ever since.
I am an economist by trade, I worked as an economist in various industrial units. I worked for a commercial unit for selling food products, after which I was head accountant for an industrial unit for collecting raw material for the light industry. I worked there until 1998, and from 1998 I worked for the Public Finances Division, I was a specialty inspector until 1999. I retired in 1999 and I am now a young pensioner aged 69.
