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re: Advice on my teenage son doing odd jobs around the neighborhood
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:59 am to hottub
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:59 am to hottub
quote:congrats to your kid. But have we become so lazy we can’t roll our can to the street?
oldest is taking trash cans out on trash day and bringing them back in after school for several folks in our neighborhood.
Again, way to seize an opportunity!
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:37 pm to tigerfoot
I live in a suburb of Houston. A kid that my son played high school football with started a lawn care/honey do business as an LLC here that pretty much formed by doing the exact same stuff the OP’s kid is doing by working odd jobs for the elderly and generally people that wanted to use a local kid trying to do good and not the run of the mill Hispanic crews that are all over our hood. In fact the name of his business was White Boy’s Lawn Service. This was probably 10 years ago so a little before everything became racist. He worked his arse off and built a little empire of clients and actually employed a lot of the football team. When it came time for college, he sold the business and got enough to help him pay his way into Baylor.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 4:52 pm to tigerfoot
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congrats to your kid. But have we become so lazy we can’t roll our can to the street?
Most are retirees/middle aged who love to see kids actually working, so they support him.
I made my boy come up with a business plan, how he was going to market it, collections, etc.
Great learning experience for him. I have had some of his customers intentionally not pay him to help work thru that process.
Waking his arse up at 5:45 am, 4 degrees, and a foot of snow on the ground was the best lesson he has learned so far.
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