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yeah that's exactly the sort of thing my friend was telling me. I'll just consider it a hobby and maybe make my own furniture. Its crazy how some fields just perish like that, even in my lifetime. My childhood dreams are no longer modern.
1) Find a part time job (in another business not owned by you) doing something that will get you tips at a high end place. Clean up, dress well, or dress in the style your clientele will want (i.e. at the Emerald City Smoothie where I get my MRS's, the girls are all fit and wear tight workout clothes and the guys are all fit-ish and wear jerseys or something, and at a all-organic restaurant near me, all the waiters and waitresses wear formal black clothing and love to chat about organic options).
2) In your spare time, develop applications that people will actually buy. Like an app that connects to the internet to display local tourist destinations, or one that locates your car in a parking lot, or one that Google hasn't infiltrated. Sell it for $1 per download. Or develop an app which caters to the anime and manga crowd.
A 15 year old kid made a cool $25,000 off an app he made.
Buy an old pickup truck with a trailer, a riding lawn mower, some gardening tools, and print up lots of flyers. That way you can start a lawn service.
I'm not kidding you. Mow three yards a day for $100 a pop, with other fees tacked on for ancillary services. Once you have a steady clientele, hire p/t workers while you handle the back-office stuff.
A friend's son does that. Made $20,000 in a summer, and was pretty much done by 2 every afternoon.
I like this idea, it is a cheap business that can provide income and experience operating a small business, both you will need for later ideas. If you could make 20K a summer, which would be awesome, then thats a 100% return on your investment (if you could keep the cost under 20K). A similar idea that i have been considering was building fountains for peoples landscape. I am about to try to do my own, total cost is $150 bucks, and if i paid someone it would cost at least $600 bucks for a similar one. I am considering doing this as a part-time job, depending on how my own fountain turns out.
Buy a used van and source 50 small 5000W generators and a bunch of gas cans and extension cords and follow the weather related power failures around the country driving back every week to load up on more generators which you will sell for a profit of $250 each. Paint "NEW GENERATORS $500" on the side of your van. Be sure to have a gun on you or nearby.
Buy a used van and source 50 small 5000W generators and a bunch of gas cans and extension cords and follow the weather related power failures around the country driving back every week to load up on more generators which you will sell for a profit of $250 each. Paint "NEW GENERATORS $500" on the side of your van. Be sure to have a gun on you or nearby.
I like that idea. I won't feel bad going to the more afluent areas of the disaster and asking a nice cost. When there are disasters, do they typically sell out at the store or what? Would this work better in urban areas or rural?
Create a videogame company to make the best first person shooters ever. lol
I'm bored of Call of Duty being the only company creating online shooters. I want to combat the company's Infinity ward and Treyarch and show them that they can't overrule all the other company's. I know their past 3 games could've been a lot better.
Buy an old pickup truck with a trailer, a riding lawn mower, some gardening tools, and print up lots of flyers. That way you can start a lawn service.
I'm not kidding you. Mow three yards a day for $100 a pop, with other fees tacked on for ancillary services. Once you have a steady clientele, hire p/t workers while you handle the back-office stuff.
A friend's son does that. Made $20,000 in a summer, and was pretty much done by 2 every afternoon.
This is what I was going to say...
In the winter get into snowplowing... with a truck or a blade on a quad runner, even a small tractor. Lot of money to be made there especially if you can get contracts with churches, stores, parking lots, etc.
I like that idea. I won't feel bad going to the more afluent areas of the disaster and asking a nice cost. When there are disasters, do they typically sell out at the store or what? Would this work better in urban areas or rural?
Actually, the buyers will be contractors and workers who are being paid by insurance companies to secure the property. For the most part.
All the local stores sell out even before trouble hits. The inventory disappears in a widening radius over hours not days.
Yes, the less nearby large population centers the lower the inventory available.
Good luck.
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