Entrepreneurial Pastimes

As my first post I will outline some of the entrepreneurial activities I have taken part in to date. As a note though this blog over time will include financial insights, finance topics, corporate newsworthy events and various other business topics other then those of my entrepreneurial undertakings.

It all started at a young age, not out of greed but out of feelings of accomplishment and a sense of something to call my own. The first every entrepreneurial activity I took part is probably one that many people may have begun their careers doing, mowing lawns. It wasn't simply mowing my parent's lawn for allowance or just mowing the neighbour's lawn. It was advertising on local bulletin boards and mowing multiple lawns. The venture was too big for myself so I had some friends help me out. This all happened when I was 12 years old.

After a successful summer and some money in the pocket I then grew an attachment towards doing things myself. On a later summer when I was 15 when the entrepreneurial itch stuck again I started a recycling company. The venture consisted of a five-foot high well visible plastic recycling box down at the beach to collect recyclables. Unfortunately at that point I didn't have any contacts to turn the recyclables into money. Fortunately though the local beach was a popular place to drink beer. That meant that we returned the beer bottles and cans for 10 cents a piece at the local beer vendor and then dropped off the recycling at the local recycling station. To my partner and I it meant some cash in the pocket and helping out the environment.

One day I was sitting around with my friends who worked as marketers and had excess product left over, which in this case was candy. While any 16-year-old would typically just eat the candy, I thought up the idea to sell it out of our locker at school. Here gave birth to the organisation that I formally named, "The Locker Store." What started off selling small packs of lemon gum and blueberry twizzlers soon began to grow into a legacy. We sold many varieties of chocolate bars, candy, chips, drinks and our very own custom made Locker Store pens. We generated sales in the thousands of dollars all out of our locker at school. We even had the privilege of running the concessions at one of our schools battle of the bands events. I will leave the Locker Store topic though because it was the broadest initial entrepreneurial experience of my life to date and will probably require more posts in order for me to give it due credit.

After graduating from high school and going into university my enterprising took a break. Only in second year university did I get what I call "the itch" again and bought a piece of rental property. It is a duplex that needs some renovation before it can start generating some revenue for me. This is an ongoing topic as it is my latest implemented entrepreneurial activity.

Ideas come to me all the time and it makes me want to get them out there. Unfortunately I need capital to be able to undertake some of my larger ideas. That is the phase I am in now, gaining capital in order to implement some of my bigger ideas. I am under 20 years old and own a duplex and many investments, all with my own steam. I view what I am doing now as an adventure since I am trying to build up to something great with my own smaller entrepreneurial activities leading to larger ones that will hopefully someday lead to my full time job.