Welcome to DUPAR...I present you the business that opened the doors for me when I arrived in COLOMBIA! (PART I)

Hello my dear friends, today I want to introduce you to my place of work, a rather humble business in which I have acquired a lot of knowledge about it and where I was given the opportunity to grow and help my people grow.

I am sincerely excited to talk about it because when things are done with love, it fills us with great joy to talk about it. I have nothing bad to talk about DUPAR on the contrary.

So, let's start...

First of all I want to say that I started working at Dupar approximately 2 years ago, 2 months after arriving in Bogota, in the first year I had to leave for a while because the business went through a very difficult situation (a robbery), and therefore there were no resources to cover my salary. Later I had to get another job while dupar was recovering, but that's another story...

I continue...

This business belongs to a girl named DIANA, is a business created by herself, without any help is a single mother and has gone through many things in life, which make it worthy of a great woman. Another enterprising woman.

She has always been very constant, when she started with difficulty and had 1 product of each brand, it was not easy, the first year was very hard (like everyone else), all that generated was to reinvest in the same business and so gradually was growing and becoming known with the big suppliers.

As you can see in the pictures, it is a business mainly of sweets, here in Colombia they are called DULCERIA, in Venezuela it is not like that, we call it CONFITERIA.

My boss, like almost everyone else, is a very suspicious person, and she has gone through a lot of disappointments in the business. I think that's why when I started, I obviously didn't have any experience selling candy (I never did before), but I know I can do a lot of things, and I'm a quick learner. Luckily with the Venezuelan women she has never had any money problems, that's a plus, she was always on top of me every step of the way, but still I trust me faster than I expected.

Besides, I have to say that of all her previous workers I was the one who learned the most quickly and was able to work alone, it's just her and me, we don't work with anyone else, honestly that for me was an achievement, I didn't know that I had these gifts in business hehe...

In dupar we sell everything from sweets to cookies, chocolates, drinks (soda or soft drinks as we say, juices and water), things to snack on like potatoes, doritos, cheetos, bananas, popcorn, phosphorites, in short, everything a little bit we get in dupar.

I think it's a good business, it's very organized, both of us have taken care of it, it's always very clean and neat.

When I started, I started with the schedule of 8am to 8:30pm, yes, 12 and a half hours and a little more, because while you close you spend 15 minutes, it is a full day job, most of the jobs here in Colombia and I think that in most Latin American countries are like that, somewhat exhausting and with many working hours. But well that's what there is for most and it's nice to have it.

In this publication I wanted to show you a little bit of what I do or did before the pandemic, since I am not working there at the moment, this will be the first part of what I want to show you from DUPAR.

I just want you to know that you never know about the things that we are capable of doing, I had never worked in something like that and I knew how to handle the truth very well, I have learned to eat to run a business, what should be done and what not, how to deal with suppliers, how to place orders, how to handle a billing system and something very important CUSTOMER TREATMENT elemental in every business, but also something difficult to do, to be filled with patience to endure some things.

Obviously I'm not an expert yet and I don't have my own business, but at this point I feel able to have one.

It's in the first part of this story, in the next issue I'll be telling you how we carry out the income and expense part of DUPAR!!

Thank you for reading me!!

I want to point out that I have my boss's permission to upload the photos of her place to the platform. You will soon meet her!