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My son (18) graduates this coming Tuesday. He has a normal job at night, at Publix............. He’s got a special secret niche that he has focused on and it’s really paid off. This week alone he has worked only three days and........... I sm interested in the niche he has going. My son does the same things and is doing well. Too many folks these days are scared to sweat and get their clothes dirty. Shoot me a pm letting me know what might help my son gather in more money. TIA B
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Food for thought, I am friends with 3 brothers. The older 2 went to college and got business degrees. The younger one flunked out of college and started a lawn care business. Look's like the youngest one will retire first. He has done extremely well! I flunked my first year of college because I was too busy building rods. Dad told me to come home and within a year, J&M Tackle was open. I probably have the worst grammar of anyone on this site, and have been told that, but I wouldn’t change anything.
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Congrats to him!
I was listening to the radio the other day and they were asking what odd jobs folks did for extra pocket change and a girl called in and said she noticed dog crap on the grass around a Walmart store and talked to the manager about cleaning it up. He said he would pay her $100 to pickup once per week and occasionally if she sees it needs to be cleaned again she gets paid twice per week. It worked out so well she now does the same thing for a few other Walmart stores and other large stores as well.
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Food for thought, I am friends with 3 brothers. The older 2 went to college and got business degrees. The younger one flunked out of college and started a lawn care business. Look's like the youngest one will retire first. He has done extremely well! I flunked my first year of college because I was too busy building rods. Dad told me to come home and within a year, J&M Tackle was open. I probably have the worst grammar of anyone on this site, and have been told that, but I wouldn’t change anything. Success in life has little to do with formal education. It is much more about hard work and perseverance in anything you do.
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Food for thought, I am friends with 3 brothers. The older 2 went to college and got business degrees. The younger one flunked out of college and started a lawn care business. Look's like the youngest one will retire first. He has done extremely well! I flunked my first year of college because I was too busy building rods. Dad told me to come home and within a year, J&M Tackle was open. I probably have the worst grammar of anyone on this site, and have been told that, but I wouldn’t change anything. So.....You are the Owner of J&M....I'll be Darn!! I frequent your store often....will be in there middle of next week. That store is a Fishing Institution!!
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Tell him to be careful wrestling at Montevallo. That school seems to have an unusually high number of fruit loops.
Thankfully that’s starting to change some due to the school adding so many athletic programs but it still seems to have more than it’s fair share. He already knows most of the guys that’s on his team so he already has a good circle around him. If anything, I’ve told them they don't have to comment on every fruit loop they see. 
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Tell him to be careful wrestling at Montevallo. That school seems to have an unusually high number of fruit loops.
Thankfully that’s starting to change some due to the school adding so many athletic programs but it still seems to have more than it’s fair share. He already knows most of the guys that’s on his team so he already has a good circle around him. If anything, I’ve told them they don't have to comment on every fruit loop they see. I built a building on that Campus back in the early 90's. Learned that the original Charter written by a woman states that the School can NEVER have a Football Team....
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I built a building on that Campus back in the early 90's. Learned that the original Charter written by a woman states that the School can NEVER have a Football Team....
That’s correct. That was actually one of our concerns when we went for his athletic visit. We were concerned that they’d start a football program which sucks the funding from every program around it. The school actually started as an all female school. When they started allowing men, it was written into the bylaws that a football team could never be added. Which was fine by us.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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I built a building on that Campus back in the early 90's. Learned that the original Charter written by a woman states that the School can NEVER have a Football Team.... Same was said about USA in Mobile when I was there in ‘83 and a bunch of guys were trying to get a club team started. Eventually getting a real team but Montevallo will never have a football team.
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I remember going in there to the job a lot of times at 6:30 and passing the Athletic Dorm.....would see the "Normal" young ladies slipping out of their EARLY...headed back to the Dorm!! So....You might want to invest in some Trojans for him!!
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That’s awesome. A young person today willing to work is in the catbird seat. 2 of my boys have held me hostage this week for raises 😂, hard to argue with them when they show up everyday and answer when the phone rings at night
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I made damn good money right by myself when I started my lawn business. I quit welding and working offshore to start cutting grass. I definitely made more money when I was small right by myself than I did when I got big and had two crews and several employees. I got tired of not having any help so I sold the business. Not even six months later and the guy I sold it to ran it in the ground and doesn’t have hardly a customer left
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I made damn good money right by myself when I started my lawn business. I quit welding and working offshore to start cutting grass. I definitely made more money when I was small right by myself than I did when I got big and had two crews and several employees. I got tired of not having any help so I sold the business. Not even six months later and the guy I sold it to ran it in the ground and doesn’t have hardly a customer left
My neighbor said the same thing about making more money when his lawn business was small. He has gotten too big and lost quality control. His guys are sloppy and lazy and it shows in the final product.
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LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!!
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Sounds like a good kid who had a good upbringing. You should be proud.
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I'd encourage him to keep the business going and growing, and use college as a back up plan. College degrees don't mean what they use to.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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 There's a Huntsville high school kid who started a lawn mowing biz , hiring some of his high school buddies. His business grew and last I heard he has one of the biggest lawn care businesses in Huntsville now.
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I'd encourage him to keep the business going and growing, and use college as a back up plan. College degrees don't mean what they use to. While you are correct, it might also be foolish to turn down the scholarship opportunity available to him currently. If he really does have an eye for running his own business, then college with a focus on a business degree to learn the paperwork side of things would be an asset in the future. The ideal situation would have been if he had gotten a scholarship to a college close enough to home to still run the lawn care business he has started.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.---Winnie the Pooh
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