Thread: Tubby's rebound. I hope this works out.

A couple days ago, as covered in my previous thread here: If you were the CEO/President and saw... I'm no longer employed (I was the Lab Tech). I've got two children under 5. Not a good situation, plus all my previous crap on top of it (see inspirational post in sig).

But already, things are looking on the up and up and I've got money coming in.

Fall is here in my area and leaves are falling already. The day I quit my job, I had to take out my anger on something, so I started raking leaves. I knew the neighbor was gone out of town and wouldn't be back until the next day. What the hell, he's a neighbor. I raked his lawn too. No biggie. He came home yesterday and came over to ask why his and my lawn didn't have a single leaf on it while everyone else's did. I told him I quit my job, was upset and how it came to that, and came home to rake leaves. Just kept on raking his yard too, because I felt like it. He handed me a $100 bill and told me his mother lives three blocks over. "Go rake her yard too. Keep my yard and her yard clean and I'll pay you $50 per yard every time it needs it until the snow flies." Nice!

Neighbor stops over this morning and over a few cups of coffee tells me he made some calls to some friends of his the previous night and he has 4 more yards for me to rake at $50 per yard. I did those today before lunch and got paid the $200 for those. Neighbor comes home tonight with a big grin on his face. Walks over and said he sent an email to his coworkers asking if they want yard cleanup done this fall. He got 14 respondents wanting to pay the $50 per yard!

Holy smokes I had no idea people would pay that much for work like that. I can easily get those 14 yards done this weekend, so figure $700 in two days plus the $100 for his and his mother's place and $200 for his 4 friends...hell my last job didn't even pay close to $800 a week.

The neighbor knows I have a plow on my truck and asked if I was willing to plow driveways this year. I told him I did it on the side for a few people last few years. He said he's going to check with his coworkers on Monday if anyone wants to have snow plowing services this winter. Told me to figure out a price structure over the weekend and get back to him for a contract price, as I normally charge $50 per push.

For snow plowing, I've been doing it for $50 per "push" (in snow plowing that's what we call an "event"; you call, we plow, that's a "push" ). We get a LOT of snow here. It usually snows 15 out of 30 days for 5 months (nice lake effect snow) and we get over 300 inches per winter. Last year I only plowed for 8 people. The next few weeks I'm going to do some local marketing around town and see if I can get more people signed up. Maybe like a service contract option or a "per push (storm)" basis. Monthly on contract or cash up front before I drop the plow for the event service.

I hope this works out to something sustainable. Would be nice to rake leaves and do winter prep in the fall, plow snow in the winter, and do spring cleanup (branches, etc) and have summers off to spend with my family. Wish me luck guys. I'm going to pursue this as best I can. Gotta follow the money.

Just read your last tread and im glad to see things are working out for you. Make sure you look into the business aspects (licenses, insurance, and stuff) before you get to ahead of yourself

You're such a badass for hustling like this. If only most were that resourceful. Plus you're not just hustling you're offering big value.

Good luck!

Good for you bro! I agree if this takes off then get your biz license etc....

Keep up the hustle!

Sent you a PM!

Awesome! Are u suing your old company for wrongfull dismissal too?

Something good always comes from something bad! Run with it, sounds like you got a good customer base down, knock em dead!

Originally Posted by thesmileyone

Awesome! Are u suing your old company for wrongfull dismissal too?

Am advised by counsel to neither confirm nor deny proceedings that are or may evolve from this alleged incident.

Man, I hate lawyer-speak.

What a great neighbour!

Good luck with your new business, if that's what it turns out to be! All things happen for a reason.

Originally Posted by tubby

Am advised by counsel to neither confirm nor deny proceedings that are or may evolve from this alleged incident.

Man, I hate lawyer-speak.

Fair enough, Let fate take over...hopefully you wont need investors soon