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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Even today most lawn care guys aren't commercially insured, don't declare taxes, pay helpers cash, don't withhold FICA yet alone employer match it. No way was workers comp being paid. It's an under the table cash business where a wal-mart capital outlay of $500 for equipment puts you in business.
Again not saying it's not hard work just irrelevant when compared to the subject discussed.
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I did start like that, I won't try to lie. In high school, I had a 4 door Pontiac pheniox. Total shit car, I ripped the back seats out and would stuff a push mower, weed eater ect.. In the trunk. I started that biz with literally shit of anything. I actually got my first riding mower, by making a deal with my mail man for his. I cut his grass for 6 months for that thing.
I was in a class called DCT at school during my 11th and 12th grade, if you had good enough grades you could do it and get out of school early to work a job and it counted as credits. I ran my own business doing lawns while in that program.
The local airport authority owned a big trailer park and I used to cut all their vacant lawns very cheap ( like slave labor cheap, but fuck it I was young and it's how I started) The head maintance guy signed my paper work for the class and gave my reviews.. My teacher knew what was going on but she let it slide as long as my paper work was signed.
Yes my first 2 years before I was even 18 I was uninsured, but I was always licensed..