Introduction The evident current developments in economy, business trends, and financial markets have had significant effects on people’s jobs. The writer of this article was formerly a manager in one of Russia’s exporting companies specialising in the export of grains from the Russian market to the global market. The company specialised in the export of wheat from the Russian market to other countries of the world, which would buy the wheat through contracts with the Russian government. The Writer’s Job Description The writer worked as a manager in one of the companies involved in the exporting of wheat form the Russian market to the global market. The job of the manager involved running the day-to-day activities of the company in such a manner that would ensure it meets its objectives while at the same time remaining profitable. The work of the manager involves coordinating the marketing activities of the company in terms of finding a market for the products of the company, signing of sales agreements, coordinating the shipment of wheat to the customers abroad, and following up payment for the exported products. The manager’s duties also include coordinating the acquisition of wheat from the government stores from which the company is a sales agent. The facilitation involves a procurement process that the manager should make sure that it secures the best prices from the government, which in the end will enable the company to sell products at a profit. It is the manager’s duty to ensure that the quality of the products meets the local and international standards. The Economic Conditions of the Country Russia’s economy is one of the biggest in the world, coming up at ninth with regards to the nominal value thus making it one of the countries that make up the G20 group of countries in terms of the economic muscle. Other than having wheat as one of its massive exports to the world, it is also endowed with other mineral resources like gas, oil, precious metals as well as coal. In the past twenty years, Russia’s economy has moved from a centrally planned economy that was used to run the country during the Soviet Union to a more liberalised and capitalistic economy at the present (Wegren 2009, p. 471). A centrally planned economy involved all the economic decisions being made by one government agency that would be guided by socialist policies that ran the whole government. This design led to Russia working only with countries, which were allied to its socialist policy thus locking out other capitalist nations from its economy. Currently, Russia operates on a capitalist economic position, which has allowed it to adopt the open market policy, which in turn has enabled the government to liberalise the planning of the nation in terms of production. It has also allowed the nation to access markets that were previously hostile to the Russian market. This condition has enabled the Russian wheat industry to prosper due to factors of production that have made it cheap in the world market thus being competitive. The current economic condition of the country can be described as stable with most of the population heading towards the middle class thus making t