After completing his pedagogical studies, Butka worked for 16 years as a teacher of linguistics and literature in the districts of Fier, Krujë and Tiranë.
Due to his family biography he was laid off from his job as a teacher and later worked as a painter at a shoe factory in Tirana.
In 1976, along with his family, he was interned to Tropojë then later to Martanesh where he lived for 11 years in isolation, changing his profession and working as an accountant at the local village cooperative.
[1] On the eve of the Fall of communism in Albania, Butka returned to Tirana where he served for several years in various communal jobs as a painter, decorator and designer.
He has written and published a series of books in the field of publicity, historical studies and artistic literature.