Hello Everyone,
My name is Peter. I'm 24 years old and currently working as an EMT. I've been reading through the posts and stories for the past month or so and have been learning quite a bit. I got the nickname Pete the Peddler in high school because I was always selling something. I figured that would be an appropriate username for this forum.
I guess I'll tell you a little bit about my background so you know a little about me and where I'm coming from.
My first venture into entrepreneurship was a trucking business. I had just gotten out of high school and was in my first semester at the local community college. I was thinking of things I could do to make money while going to college and I figured, I had a pickup truck - I'll start a cleanup/moving company. So I started, PJ Hauling, a refuse removal and trucking company. The tag line: "Just hauling my way thru college". I did that for a couple of years, dropped out of college because I was thought I was learning more running my own business than I was in college for business. I was right and wrong.
I realized after a year or two that I wasn't going to get where I wanted to go by running PJ Hauling. So I started to look for the next business I could get into. On a side note, I learned early on that I work better for myself than for someone else. I really don't like working for someone else and making them the real money. I also should mention that from as far back as I can remember, I have had the goal of making my first million by the time I was 25.
So after looking around and researching different business ideas I didn't come up with much that the numbers worked on. My friend knew a guy who was running a firewood business and was looking to sell. I went to see the guy and find out what type of operation he had. After looking at his business I decided to start my own. The guy had a contract with a distributor who sold bundled firewood to Wal-Mart, Home Depot and several large chain stores. So I went out and got an investor and bought all the necessary equipment. Long story short it didn't work out, the investor wanted his money back and I had to sell all the equipment and go out of business before I got the business off the ground.
After a couple of dead end jobs, I worked a season at a income tax preparation office. I figured that would be a good business so the next year I opened my own office. That one would have worked but I think the location wasn't the best.
So needless to say I've had some setbacks and failures. But I'm one to learn from my mistakes and boy have I learned a great deal.
I didn't mean to write such a long post but I figured a good background would be best to start with.
So thanks for reading and thank you so much for providing a great forum.
Peter
My name is Peter. I'm 24 years old and currently working as an EMT. I've been reading through the posts and stories for the past month or so and have been learning quite a bit. I got the nickname Pete the Peddler in high school because I was always selling something. I figured that would be an appropriate username for this forum.
I guess I'll tell you a little bit about my background so you know a little about me and where I'm coming from.
My first venture into entrepreneurship was a trucking business. I had just gotten out of high school and was in my first semester at the local community college. I was thinking of things I could do to make money while going to college and I figured, I had a pickup truck - I'll start a cleanup/moving company. So I started, PJ Hauling, a refuse removal and trucking company. The tag line: "Just hauling my way thru college". I did that for a couple of years, dropped out of college because I was thought I was learning more running my own business than I was in college for business. I was right and wrong.
I realized after a year or two that I wasn't going to get where I wanted to go by running PJ Hauling. So I started to look for the next business I could get into. On a side note, I learned early on that I work better for myself than for someone else. I really don't like working for someone else and making them the real money. I also should mention that from as far back as I can remember, I have had the goal of making my first million by the time I was 25.
So after looking around and researching different business ideas I didn't come up with much that the numbers worked on. My friend knew a guy who was running a firewood business and was looking to sell. I went to see the guy and find out what type of operation he had. After looking at his business I decided to start my own. The guy had a contract with a distributor who sold bundled firewood to Wal-Mart, Home Depot and several large chain stores. So I went out and got an investor and bought all the necessary equipment. Long story short it didn't work out, the investor wanted his money back and I had to sell all the equipment and go out of business before I got the business off the ground.
After a couple of dead end jobs, I worked a season at a income tax preparation office. I figured that would be a good business so the next year I opened my own office. That one would have worked but I think the location wasn't the best.
So needless to say I've had some setbacks and failures. But I'm one to learn from my mistakes and boy have I learned a great deal.
I didn't mean to write such a long post but I figured a good background would be best to start with.
So thanks for reading and thank you so much for providing a great forum.
Peter
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