I used to love when it snowed as a kid, because it meant money. I’d hustle all over my neighborhood to knock on doors and clear away snow.
I wasn’t the only one. Pretty much every other kid was going for the same gig. It was some heavy lifting, for sure, but a great source of cash when I didn’t have any. And somebody had to fund my need for new Atari 2600 games.
Anyhow, in the several winters I’ve lived in my current house, I’ve never had a single knock on the door to ask about shoveling snow.
Over the past day, I ended up spending over five hours across three shifts of snow shoveling. We had about 18″ of snow in the last day, and it looked like all of my neighbors were shoveling it themselves, too.
Come on now, every kid can’t be the next Daniel Brusilovsky. Turn off your laptops and show some initiative.
Tomorrow, I think I’ll shop for a snow blower.
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I wonder how many kids have figured out how to make money online. I am jealous of the opportunity, since I was washing dishes at a Friendly’s for $3.35 an hour when I was 15.
Just the fact that one kid thought it was novel to make money shoveling snow gives me hope that we won’t have an entire generation of people with bad postures and carpal tunnel.
Come on now, Shawn – you know that affiliate marketing is the new teen money-maker. Lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow-shoveling….. All that’s so 80′s… so 90′s…
While they can’t all intern for a Silicon Valley vc-blog, there’s plenty of gold farming, auto-blogging, and flogging to keep kids as far away from manual labor, and ensure that you’re stuck shoveling out your own driveway and not skirting the minimum wage laws (I kid, I kid…)
But, what’s old is new…. You know you’re getting old when old-school moneymakers like shoveling driveways when it snows – show up on a ‘blackhat’ message board as a new ‘method’:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/making-money/170659-craigslist-snow-removal-100-method.html
This shows you that the internets can revolutionize even the most mundane of businesses:
“This could easily be scaled…post at better times during the day, and remove/repost your ads…will get more customers…then sell the work to someone who has the equipment. That way you stay inside where its warm and don’t have to leave your PC.”
Kids these days…
It’s just dead on my block.
They have it easy these days with a snow blower.
Funny you should mention this, cause yesterday two teenagers knocked on my door yesterday with a snow blower in the back of their pickup truck wanting to clear my driveway. So entrepreneurship at a young age isn’t completely dead
Those were the days – you could bank $100 as a 10 year old.
Nice getting in the Daniel Brusilovsky reference. I used to walk door to door with friends for blocks when I was a kid asking to shovel the drive for 5 bucks. 10 for double garages.
It’s no secret that this country has gone thru a pussification and the kids these days (not all of them – just most) are worthless and ambitionless.
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