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.
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.
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).
You do have to earn at least minimum wage as a waiter if your tips don't add up with your wage to at least $7.25 hourly, though (higher if your state/locality has a better minimum wage). That said, $7.25 is a poverty wage and wage theft exists. Ideally this would be solved with an appropriate minimum wage and decent pay for waitstaff/kitchen staff.
Yes, its that easy when you get all that for free to start your business with.
Success is a combo of luck and work. Many people have one, OP got both. Let's congratulate them instead
And connections. Grow and lean on your network, fellas.
And live in an area where there's demand and where people will give you jobs, i.e. you have the right skin colour.
I guess that's why they call it capitalism.
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.
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.
Hopefully grandpa also left him a snowblower
To be*
And then you get on the shovel -> snowblower -> plow grind
Don't forget raking leafs, and basic landscaping in the spring like trimming shit. Pulling weeds too
I never forget pulling weeds.
100 bucks? God damn.
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?
I pay $70+$10 tip for 0.8 acres. My guy seems happy with that.
Out of curiosity, how long does he need? If he manages to do that in an hour or max of 2, then this is not bad at all.
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.
Yup. We're conditioned to tip everyone
It's crazy, really, reading about it.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/16/fact-check-tipping-kept-wages-low-formerly-enslaved-black-workers/3896620001/
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).
You do have to earn at least minimum wage as a waiter if your tips don't add up with your wage to at least $7.25 hourly, though (higher if your state/locality has a better minimum wage). That said, $7.25 is a poverty wage and wage theft exists. Ideally this would be solved with an appropriate minimum wage and decent pay for waitstaff/kitchen staff.
He said he was in a rural po dunk area, so that seems high. Then again greentext so probably bullshit anyway
Idk, nothing egregious about this one.
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.
We're supposed to tip? What the hell
No
That’s a good price here in Seattle.
No Anon, we're reporting you for tax evasion.
I'd be worried about insurance as a catch. Especially if you live somewhere like the USA.