As a fourth grade student at the Prizren Seminary, he was called to Skopje in 1891 by the then Serbian consul of Skopje, Vladimir Karić, because of an urgent need for a teacher in the new school in the village of Klinovac in Preševska kaza, on the border between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire.
Until 1904, he worked as a teacher in Serbian schools in Bašino Selo near Veles, Zletovo and Kriva Palanka.
Because of his work with the companies, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, but he was soon pardoned due to Russian diplomacy.
[4] He participated in the work of the First Serbian Conference of Ottoman Serbs, in August 1908 in Skopje, after the Young Turk Revolution.
In the same year as Vardar newspaper was published, he founded the first Serbian printing house and bookstore in Skopje.