What I Learned From Odd Jobs – How Kids Start Off On The Entrepreneurial Trail
April 12, 2008 by Yvonne Russell
HomeBizNotes.com
My first ever realization that you could actually get remuneration for doing something was when I was about 8 years old.
My father was building a house. The carpenters who sub contracted toiled long and hard in sub tropical temperatures and worked up quite a sweat. When we came home from school, the carpenters would ask us to go to the nearby shop to buy them some icecreams – cold icy paddlepops on a stick.
We were kids, and happy to do it. The whole house building thing was an adventure to us. We looked forward to getting home and to watching …read more