• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      Success is a combo of luck and work. Many people have one, OP got both. Let’s congratulate them instead

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      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.

  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

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      26 days ago

      To be*

      And then you get on the shovel -> snowblower -> plow grind

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      28 days ago

      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?