A Business Owner at Age 18
It's not very common to see a teenager own and operate his/her own business. I've always had a great interest in the technology world which is what had prompted me into starting my own business, along with the chance to prove wrong the people that said I wouldn't be able to do it wrong. Throughout my youth I applied for work at just about any place that was hiring; my first job that I got was a job at Nino Salvaggio when I was 14; I worked there for about 4 months and I had to quit because of school. All of the money that I had earned from my work during those 4 months went to my parents. I've also worked for CVS Pharmacy, CompUSA, Rite Aid Pharmacy, and at Performance Resource Press over the past 4 years of my life. I have saved up enough money to support my self independently. Also I have gained a lot of experience from the jobs I've had. For instance, I noticed many people asking me a lot of different advice about computers when I worked at CompUSA. That led me to have many great ideas on how I could come up with a solution for the problems that were experienced by the customers I had. After working small jobs that involve computers for people, I noticed how successful I would be if I was to s
Although my parents thought I wouldn't be able to run my own business, they still helped me a lot after they saw that this is what I really want to do. They didn't help me by giving me money or by helping me buy equipment, but they helped me fill out the paperwork, register my business, and get any and all legal papers required submitted. I didn't really care that they didn't help me by giving me money or by helping with equipment because I had saved up enough to pay for everything my self from all the jobs I worked at in the past. My dad was the most helpful and he was the one that always stood behind me every step of the way just because of the fact that he has operated a business before and he currently is a self-employed electrician. My mom was also trying to help with anything she can do such as helping me advertise my company, sending out proposals, etc. Although she tried to offer me money to buy the necessary equipment and software, I had refused it because I wanted to see if I would be able to do this independently. In the beginning when I first mentioned this to my parents they thought I was kidding and told me that there would be no way I would be able to handle a business at this age. They tried to explain to me that I would not even be able to get any customers and that even if I did get customers I would be ripped off. Even though those conclusions are possible, I was still very confident about starting my own business and very confident that it would be a successful business. Although this business is still to this day a successful business, it wasn't easy to start this business at all. It required a lot of knowledge, patience, and paper work to be done. I had to come up with a business plan before I even started to do anything; a business plan is basically a detailed description of everything that needs to be done before you actually start advertising your business to the public. In addition to the business plan that I had to create, I had also to come up with a promotion plan, which details what sort of customers I was to target, and how I was going to target them. After all that is done I had to register my business with the Michigan Department of Treasury. I started my business which is call
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