Anon mows lawns

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, its that easy when you get all that for free to start your business with.

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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Success is a combo of luck and work. Many people have one, OP got both. Let’s congratulate them instead

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    • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Success is a combo of luck and work.

      And connections. Lean on your network, fellas.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And live in an area where there’s demand and where people will give you jobs, i.e. you have the right skin colour.

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess that’s why they call it capitalism.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I started with borrowing my mother’s lawnmower, that’s it. But the first afternoon I had enough to buy a weed eater. Couldn’t even afford a pager, had to call my mom and check on customer calls.

    Crud. Forgot where I’m at. Yes, success is nothing but luck 99.9994% of us will never have.

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• MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The catch is you have to save enough money to get through the months where lawns don’t need mowed in most of the US.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hopefully grandpa also left him a snowblower

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be*

    And then you get on the shovel -> snowblower -> plow grind

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    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t forget raking leafs, and basic landscaping in the spring like trimming shit. Pulling weeds too

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  100 bucks? God damn.

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We don’t know the size of the section, or the quality of the job.

    So that could be: “God damn, that’s cheap!” or “God damn, that’s expensive!”

    If he is getting tips, then it may actually be reasonable. Genuine question, do Americans normally tip the people who mow their lawns?

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I pay $70+$10 tip for 0.8 acres. My guy seems happy with that.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup. We’re conditioned to tip everyone

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tipping is ingrained into our basic economic culture. Restaurant staff (waiters and waitresses in particular) make 80%+ of their money through tips. Federal minimum wage is about $7.25 USD, and almost no states have a minimum wage that low (some places it’s easily double that), but it’s completely legal to pay wait staff $2.25 an hour and expect them to make up the difference to $15-20 per hour in tips almost anywhere. A standard “good” tip at a restaurant is 20%. Even going to a grocery store you’ll often see a tip jar on the counter that people toss their spare change into. Outside of restaurants, no other job is completely dependent on tips to live, but in many service industries it’s still customary to tip as a way to show appreciation for a service rendered (especially if they go above and beyond).

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    • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know if I’d say it’s common exactly, especially since so many people use services and extended contracts and whatnot. Not at all unheard of though.

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  • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He said he was in a rural po dunk area, so that seems high. Then again greentext so probably bullshit anyway

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My yard guy only charges $45 but I tip $15 on top. Still a great deal. I don’t have the energy for that shit after work.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re supposed to tip? What the hell

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  • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a good price here in Seattle.

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• NuWuX@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No Anon, we’re reporting you for tax evasion.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d be worried about insurance as a catch. Especially if you live somewhere like the USA.

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