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Gaining Experience and Expanding Services

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How to Make Money as a Teenager

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Matt explains that he gained valuable experience by working for a family friend who owned a nursery from around age 8, performing tasks like tree transplants, installations, and operating machinery. This early exposure provided him with practical skills and knowledge. The video highlights his progression, from initially only mowing lawns and weeding, to purchasing a snow plow for his tractor at the end of his first summer in business, diversifying into snow removal. At 17, he acquired a driver's license, which allowed him to expand his service area and take on more jobs. His parents also helped him acquire a truck by allowing him to pay for it through them, enabling better insurance rates.

Goal: Trace Matt's progression in gaining experience and diversifying his business offerings.

Tools and materials

  • Rake — Raking leaves and debris
  • Shovel — Moving soil, leaves, and debris
  • Snow Plow Attachment — Plowing driveways and clearing snow
  • Wheelbarrow Ames True Temper — Transporting materials around a property

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a safe investment to your own parents yes okay a lot of the guys what a lot of guys and gals watching this they don't have that ability they don't have anybody to borrow on money don't fret there is actually at us a couple really cool ways that I've discovered that you can start a lawn care landscaping business with zero absolute zero dollars and I'm gonna make another video later on down the road showing that I'm gonna break in right here because not everybody wants to be in landscaping all of their life and that's fine but you can start out in landscaping and use the money you make in that business to invest in something else down the line now back to your regularly scheduled program although you had two thousand dollars to invest there's ways to start with absolutely nothing now you have you borrowed any other money along the way because you now have trucks dump trucks skid loaders trailers you run multiple crews am i right Matt oh yes when I first got into it in a large-scale fire rounds run on 17 or so my parents helped me get a truck and the way we did that was I had to pay but I gave them the money and they didn't offer their name and been insurance so so I can get better rates and not be completely killed by insurance costs for the vehicle that's a that's a very realistic way to do it so if you have if you are fortunate enough to have parents help you along the way it does make life a lot easier although I'm guessing that you would have still purchased that truck no matter what you had to do yeah that is correct did the business take an upturn when you were 17 Matt I tried to keep it small so I could still focus on schoolwork and other things that I knew were important for my future well right around my hit's 16 17 years old got the driver's license I was able to spread out a little more and that helped so when not time rolled around and I got the truck and everything I started to do some more selling you try to fill my whole pretty much after school calendar and my weekends with all lawn care work then when I graduated high school I actually I completely filled everything I had six days of work on week for two nights so you started when you were 11 just mowing lawns is that is that how you got originally started Matt mowing lawns and weeding and then at the end of the summer I purchased the small snow plow for from the tractor and I drivers continuing with long bond and times around 17 years old I started getting more into landscape sign that the…

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