lawnboy82
05-11-2001, 11:31 PM
hey all. figured that since i am so happy this past day or two i would vent here. this past week i have been asked to do about, i would say 90 - 100 thousand dollars of work. last year i only did about 33,000. that was my first year of business though. and i was still in high school at the time. this year i am in college. and i am fairly certain that by the time i get back up to school we will have gotten either pretty close to or over the 150,000 dollar marker. this is no snow or anything. just lots of tree work and landscaping. this year i havent had to cut a lot of lawns. i think that with the two i added today i am at 13? with maybe 2 more on the way. not sure right now. this week i didnt even have time to cut the lawns or anything. i am not working as much as i did last year. and when i do work it is on a job other than cutting grass. today i climbed, talked with customers, got jobs, etc. tomorow we will have to cut a few lawns. but also we have to clear an area as well as touch up some stumps i ground yesterday. i have a friend who is now 38 i believe and he wanted to sell me his lawn accounts. he felt that a business is worth its yearly reciepts. so his best year so far after 15 years of doing this stuff is 100,000 or a bit less. but he mostly just cuts grass. so if he is 38 now and his business is worth 100,000 at most. then where will i be at 38 if i am gonna do about 150,000 this year? my employee Angel says that i am young now. so if i build up slowly i will have a big business by the time i am his age. thanks for taking the time to listen. its just that i had a long day and wanted to talk to some people who speak fluent english for a change