My first business was feeding neighbour's pets. A few years later I started lending money to people at school, but that one kinda fell flat as most of them never paid it back, and I didn't know what interest was at the time. :1orglaugh

Growing up it would have to be selling girl guide cookies. and those chocolate cover almonds, and some retail book thing for kids out some kids magazine. and those wrapper paper books.

Charity jump rope for heart, then there was making slushy drinks we never did the lemonde stand, and making those friendship bracelets selling them at the flea market

and you know those ballons that have teddy bears in them I use to do that.

I was partners in Canada's first dialup online multiuser system, about 25 years ago. Time flies.

then there was walking the neighbors kids to the bus stop for $5 a week. and picking horses for my grandma to bet on horses.

Maybe it's because I am Jamaican why I had so many jobs or businesses. lol

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looked after peoples pets while they went on holiday...I must have been 10
at the time

well one day a cat jumped out of a 2nd floor window and had to be put to
sleep...that put an end to it:(

1986 my brother and I bought a few NES (Nintendo) and a bunch of games and went around to all the video rental stores in town. None would partner with us to rent video games, they thought it was dumb...

Finally we found a Mom and Pop type music store that would do it. We gave them half the rental money. It worked well for about a year. Really all we cared about was getting our games for free. lol

Then in 1990-1991 at the height of trading card popularity I owned a card shop, then in 1996-1997 I owned a small video rental store.

mowing lawns.

I was 13-16.

charged $15-20 depending on the size of the lawn, and added $5 for hedging and trimming. Minimum contract was twice a month.

I ended up bringing on 2 more guys that would take lawns for me, and drop a 10% cut on me.

I gave it up when I was 16 to start working in a local fine dining restuarant as a busboy. I often wonder what woulda happened had I kept the landscaping thing going.

Bootlegging Concert shirts ...Learned how to silk screen, tie die and all the phases of shirt printing and didnt really make shit until...........

Got a job working afterschool in 9th grade a commercial silk screener ... They'd all leave 1 hour before me so, I'd make concert templates on their nice equipments and sell the master template for $500 or so to one of the bootleggers I knew.

I was making 10-20 screens a month in highschool for about a year and then everything ended as anything fantastic does. I was too young to keep a crew together that would travel across the US following a tour.

Its a pretty rough business. You've gotta be prepared to get into a fight or busted at any momment.

breaking and entering? lol

organizing small to medium parties, started at around 30 people, then it got bigger, the cover charge for free food, DJ, invites, etc. left a nice little profit. It got bigger and then actually too big to be concentrating on school, so i knocked it off. Fuck, i should have knocked off school, didn't take long and a dude that i once briefly met, made millions organizing theme events.