one of my dad's best friends has owned a lawn service for like the last 15 years and does quite well for himself. doesn't even work in the winter.
this was my first business as well. when I moved ot the upper middle class with my mom, I noticed that people really werent' cutting their yard.. it was funny.. the people for the most part were too 'good' to get out there and cut their own yard, but not rich enough to cut these big 3k square foot yards by themselves.
at like 13 i went around charging 20 bucks a yard. I had been cutting grass since i was 7 via my dad, i'm a bad mofo with a weed eater. Anyway, i'd do 3-4 yards a day and at the end of the week clear 4-500 bucks.. at 13.. that's like god money. i was charging so cheap alot of clients wanted me to go every week. I'd always get up at 6am and cut before the sun was really out. I'd be done well before noon usually.
I did that for like 2-3 years, had the whole suburb on lock baby. once my mom saw i was making my own money /was capable of making my own money she stoped giving it to me but at that point i didnt' care. and it all went on stupid **** lol. When i was 15 i had every color of sacony shoe they made. orange, pink, blue and white... white and red.. some i wore less than like 4-5 times.. but i was fly as hell.
Anyway i got REALLY smart my junior year of high school. I passed out flyers when it was really cold outside and it was frosting up the windows.
basically if you left your car in the driveway for 20 dollars a month, i'd get the frost off all your windows every weekday morning. i'd get up at 5am, i had a car by now so i'd have 3 hours or so to hit all the windows... easily clocking 1000-1200 a month off that, on top of the yard service, on top of now working at mcdonalds... i was bringing home about 2500 or so a month.
then i figured out what the hell i was doing on computers and the game was over then. i was making 500 a week at school selling bootleg dreamcast games, movies, i modded ps'2s for 100 dollars.. i'd sale modded ps 2's with 20 games for 550.. man i was a little hustler.
I remember the day after i turned 16, i had had a car for 3 months already, i went to auto audio and just pulled out a wad of like 1500 dollars and got a sub system put in my car.. at 16. and still had money.
and my school used to for some reason print two report cards, one on a peice of paper with a watermakr on it and another on a blank peice of paper.
from the 8th to the 12th grade, every report card season i'd have 15-25 fake report cards at 30-50 a pop on the fake paper. i had it saved in my computer it took me about a week to prefect it but once i had it.. couldn't be touched.