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Grandfather ignites spark
When Marko was a teenager he would cruise in his grandfather’s electrician’s van and help the immigrant from Serbia, who was still working into his 70s.
“I’d jump up on the roof or crawl into tight spaces where my grandfather couldn’t get. It was fun and my grandfather taught me all about his trade. From an early age I was destined to be an electrician,” said Marko.
“One of my grandfather’s favourite sayings was ‘without sweat there’s no money’. Another mantra was, ‘it’s better to be 5 minutes early than one minute late’. These are work ethics that I have taken into my own business.”
As a result of his grandfather’s influence, Marko undertook an electrical course at trade school and became an apprentice, then when he was 26 yeas old he set up his own business using his initials, MZL, and he has not looked back. “I love the independence and flexibility of running my own business in an awesome trade.”
“This year I decided to advertise in Mawson Lakes Living and took out a 3 month block of ads, just small ads to get my name out there. The first month produced little response, but by the second month business was picking up, and by the third month I was getting two calls a week and lots of positive word-of-mouth, so I’m very happy with this.” (See ad on page 39) When Marko is not at work you will find him at the gym where he works on body building, or in his backyard tending his bonsai trees.
The gentle art of bonsai is an unusual art for a giant of a man, but Marko explained that bonsai is like body building in a way. “You have to work on it every day to get results. It takes years to achieve a certain look and it takes patience; and patience is something I have plenty of,” he said. Ed.
