Posted on 02/01/2015 6:57:48 AM PST by Zakeet
I remembered when I had 9 clients who I sholved snow and mowed lawns for. I think I was about 8 when I started with my brothers.
I bet an 11 year old COULDN'T pick the evil plant today.
Maybe they don’t come by anymore because it’s against the law.
I don’t think the Mexicans get many takers here because the property lots are small enough to do it yourself and it isn’t a wealthy neighborhood.
I do it the way they’ve done it for centuries; with shovels and the shovelers birthed by my wife!
Excellent point!!!! unfortunately people are fleeing NJ and bringing their trashy ideas about everything with them....Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas need to be on alert!
RULE #1....for a task such as this utilize a verbal agreement with the home owner...if any one asks “you are related” RULE #2 CASH ONLY...its nobody’s business what you made except you and your customer. I have been self-employed for a span of 35 years and I knew exactly how to side-step all of the garbage they are talking about. It is beneficial to both the homeowner AND myself in a monetary sense...the kids hopefully learned not to put something like this on paper.
In reality, these ambitious, hard-working teens just got a lesson in union politics.
Better to let the driveways remain hazardous and the union workers comfortably asleep than to have non-union teens show them up by doing the job they’re paid for not doing. And guess who has the mayor, city council, police chief, and police union on their side?
RULE #1....for a task such as this utilize a verbal agreement with the home owner...if any one asks “you are related” RULE #2 CASH ONLY...its nobody’s business what you made except you and your customer. I have been self-employed for a span of 35 years and I knew exactly how to side-step all of the garbage they are talking about. It is beneficial to both the homeowner AND myself in a monetary sense...the kids hopefully learned not to put something like this on paper.
We just paid the 16 year old boy down the block $30 and a mug of hot chocolate to do our driveway. Two summers ago he restored an old Craftsman riding mower with parts he found on eBay and hung a plow off the front.
He even has a light bar on it for safety. Sharp kid.
I hear him out there doing some of the neighbors as I type this. He’s a hard working young man and he’s raking in cash today. He even added a cup holder to his creation. LOL. We threw the travel mug in as part of the deal. Considering we are looking at a foot or more of snow today I’ve got his number programmed in the phone. He will probably get a call around 7 this evening once this thing calms down.
Money well spent as far as we are concerned.
L
Love it. He sounds like a great kid.
He must have done a dozen driveways already. We paid him to do one of our neighbors as well. They’re both working today and coming home to a foot of snow on the driveway would really suck.
I’ll bet the kid will make well over $300 in cash today. Righteous bucks for a 16 year old.
L
Around here the men all have snowblowers and run around doing each other’s driveways. They get the elderly, the widows and just about anyone’s drive they can. The kids are too lazy to get out and hussle.
Behold the rise of “The Soccer Moms’’.
A buddy and I had three to four people we did the same for, mowed and shoveled. What a great way to make a few bucks. One old lady would go out of town a few times a year and she paid us to look in on her house and water her two plants.
I recall she had booze up on the same shelf as cleaning chemicals in her hallway. And all sorts of pills from different doctors: “take two in the morning” right next to the “take one at night”. Figured they were uppers and downers, but who knows.
Never crossed our minds to drink any of her booze or steal her drugs.
We lived down the street from the high school. Growing up, every graduation night the streets would be packed for parking. We would go around and ask our neighbors if we could use their driveways to park cars. We’d charge $5 a car and fill up the driveways.
I remember one time my sister had parked out on the street and then left for a date. A car came in, pulled into the open spot on the street, and gave us $20 for “holding his place open”!
Until the Nanny State mob catches up to him.
“Until the Nanny State mob catches up to him.”
We have his back. One of the driveways he does belongs to the Sgt. of the patrol officers of our PD. Any local busybody who gets in the face of our young entrepreneur is going to be buried in citations of one kind of another.
Sometimes small suburban communities work things out.
L
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