Mike Andes, a landscaper and vlogger, documents day 16 of his quest to earn $1,000 in a single day. Starting with $27 for gas, he logs multiple mowing and cleanup jobs, paying two workers $30 an hour for 12 hours total while tracking each job's revenue against his daily expenses.
Day 16.
$27.
Filling up the mowers and gas cans at the gas station.
$59 per cut.
$299.
I gotta make more than a thousand dollars in one day. To go from a thousand to fifteen hundred isn't gonna be easy because we're gonna have to get another team member hired. It's day 16, and we're gonna keep track of all of our income and all of our expenses. Day starting off with $27 here at the gas station to fill up the mowers and the gas cans. Let's hit it.
$200 plus tax. All right, so the mulch. 399. That is the income.
This MOW here is $59 per cut. All of the cleanup of the leaves and the acorns and things in the flower beds. 299 in revenue. This job, this property cleanup, it's $299. So my goal is to get done in less than four hours because then we can make good money on it.
I worked about four hours, and Terrance worked eight hours. That's 12 hours. Multiply that by 30. That's $360 in direct labor.
All in day's work. Customers happy.
