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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 266088" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Busboy or dishwasher is always a good starter job. I know that it sounds kind of hokey to say "mow the lawn" for the neighbors, but it's good honest work. I pay a kid $10 to mow the lawn, and I told him the first time that if he did a good job, he could come back and do it every week. He mowed my lawn every week, and did some other people's as well. He had a regular day that he came to our house. Then every time we needed an extra pair of hands for a heavy project, we called him. On a grander scale, my dad used to be a garbage man, and offered yard work to the people whose trash he picked up. He sold his garbage route and kept up the yard work. He said he could pay for a new tool within a day. He didn't work at all in the winter, and he ended up selling the "yard route" about 5 years later for $60k, and that was in the '80s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 266088, member: 99"] Busboy or dishwasher is always a good starter job. I know that it sounds kind of hokey to say "mow the lawn" for the neighbors, but it's good honest work. I pay a kid $10 to mow the lawn, and I told him the first time that if he did a good job, he could come back and do it every week. He mowed my lawn every week, and did some other people's as well. He had a regular day that he came to our house. Then every time we needed an extra pair of hands for a heavy project, we called him. On a grander scale, my dad used to be a garbage man, and offered yard work to the people whose trash he picked up. He sold his garbage route and kept up the yard work. He said he could pay for a new tool within a day. He didn't work at all in the winter, and he ended up selling the "yard route" about 5 years later for $60k, and that was in the '80s. [/QUOTE]
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