Bogdan Inderjoschi
Bogdan Inderjoschi
Built businesses. Saw the machine. Says it out loud.
Construction · Pest control · Facility management · Logistics · Food · Automotive. Teams of hundreds. One conclusion.
The Blog

I've done almost everything a man can do for money.
And I'm tired of the lie.

I grew up with the key around my neck. Parents at work, sunrise to dark, and a kid left to figure out the world on his own. So I figured it out. I learned to fix what broke, to feed myself, to read people before they finished their sentence, to survive in a system where the official rules and the real rules had nothing to do with each other.

Everything they tell you is the surface. The truth is always underneath, and nobody hands it to you.

So I went and got it myself. For decades. I built companies in construction, pest control, facility management, logistics, food, automotive. I ran teams of hundreds across dozens of locations. I quoted jobs, hired people, fired people, took over operations that were bleeding out and made them breathe again — until my own body sent me the bill and I had to choose between the money and staying alive.

I chose to stay alive. And from that quieter place, I finally saw the whole thing clearly. It's all an illusion.

The expensive software that exists to look important, not to help you. The "experts" who complicate simple things on purpose, because a simple answer doesn't pay their mortgage. The numbers that lie because someone needed them to. The CV that lies to get the job, the job ad that lies to get the CV — and both sides acting surprised when it falls apart.

Here's the part that matters: I'm not angry at you. You were lied to, same as me. You were handed a complicated, expensive, dishonest version of how things work and told that's just how it is. It isn't. It never was.

No motivational garbage. No "five habits of successful people." Just stories from a man who's seen how the machine really works — real scenes, real numbers, the hard parts left in. The things people learn too late, written down so you can learn them early.

I'm not here to tell you you're doing it wrong. I'm here to show you how you're being played — and how not to be.

Sit down. Let me tell you what I've seen. — Bogdan

The Stories

Everything I learned the hard way.

A new one every week. Read them in any order — each is a real scene from a real business, with the lesson left exactly where it hurt.

Newest
No. 12
I knew you were lying before you finished the sentence.
Two men applied for the same job. One had a doctorate. The other made me a coffee. Within a month, one multiplied my revenue by ten — and the other nearly bankrupted my competitor. A kid with the key around his neck learns to read people fast; decades of hiring turned it into a habit.
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No. 11
182 emails. One that mattered. Eight minutes to find it.
Every door online asks for the same key: your email. I handed it over for one article, forty times over. Then one Friday the pile buried the single message I actually needed for Monday — and I timed exactly what that noise costs when it counts.
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No. 10
The competitor who was 40% cheaper.
A rival quoted forty per cent under me on the same job. I didn't lose sleep over it — I went and found out where the forty per cent went. The answer was hiding inside a pipe nobody would ever see again.
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No. 09
"Don't worry. We'll sort it out."
A month of work on six hundred square metres. Ten per cent of the money collected. Nothing signed anywhere. I walked off that site the day the client waved his hand at my paperwork — and the man who took over after me found out why.
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No. 08
Finish in four hours? Go home. Same pay.
I told a crew they could leave the moment the work was done, full pay. Nobody believed me. Then the ten-hour job started taking five — same men, same tools, same quality. The half of the day that was never work.
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No. 07
I used to hold the world in my head. Now I hold a phone, and the phone holds me.
I knew hundreds of numbers by heart and checked every fact against three sources and an old man. Now I hold nothing, and neither does anyone else. What we quietly handed over when the machine started remembering for us.
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No. 06
Forty hubs got fined. Mine got a warning. I knew nothing about distribution.
Nobody wanted the job. I took it after four hours of tests, in an industry I'd never worked in. Then the inspectors walked in with no warning — 72 hours, five years of records. Forty experienced managers got fined. I didn't.
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No. 05
A seven-year-old taught me why we're going backwards.
"Why would I play when I can watch someone better than me?" He'd surrendered before he ever tried — and nobody around him saw anything wrong with it. The most dangerous thing a screen ever taught a child.
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No. 04
Everyone lies. The interesting part is what happens after.
You lie to get the job. They lie to fill it. Six months later you both feel betrayed and neither sees their own hand in it. Every lie is a debt — and you always pay it back with interest.
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No. 03
"The more projects we win, the less money we have."
My friends called me on Friday nights to vent, not celebrate. Higher revenue, half the profit, no idea why. We'd sit down with the numbers. Every single time, the problem was the same — and invisible.
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No. 02
Your accountant is wrong about what your people cost.
He knows the salary. The taxes. Maybe the insurance. He doesn't know what that employee actually costs you — and neither do you. The real number is on your bank statement, not your payslip.
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No. 01
My carpenters did 40 a day. Then 8. Same men.
I handed my crews to a friend. Same skill, same tools, same city. Their output dropped by five times in three weeks. Nobody changed. The system did. Here's the number that explains everything.
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Soon
Five minutes in, ninety minutes gone.
I tried working for a corporation once. Biggest mistake of my life. Three meeting invitations landed in my first five minutes of actual work — and the third one arrived after I'd handed in my resignation, about preventing a problem the second one was supposed to solve. The most expensive way ever invented to avoid doing the work.