Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Start a Lawn Care Business in High School #shorts

17 Sept 2021 · 1 min

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A short YouTube advice clip (Mike Andes) answering a student who currently services ~40 lawns (weekly/biweekly) over three days with two helpers and wants to reach 100 weekly clients next year. Mike advises that reaching 100 while attending school would likely require employees working independently, which raises operational risks (breakdowns, delays) and added stress that can negatively impact school performance; he recommends weighing priorities carefully if academic goals (e.g., engineering, medicine, law) are important.

Questions this video answers

About 40 lawns (weekly/biweekly).

Over a three-day period.

Two helpers.

100 weekly clients.

Chapters

How fast do you think you can scale while still in high school? I currently service 40 weekly bi weekly lawns over a three day period with two helpers. I want next year to break the hundred weekly client mark. Do you think that is possible while maintaining a school? Yeah, it's a really tough one, right? So if you're in school all day long, then trying to do the lawns in the afternoons, the weekends, etc. But if you're gonna scale up to 100 lawns weekly, you're probably gonna need to have an employee working while you're in school. And so whether you have a job or you're in school and you have people out mowing lawns, it's pretty stress because you can't get to them very quickly if they have a problem, right? So if they're in the middle of a route, their tire pops, their truck goes down, whatever it might be, you can't get to them immediately now. And that can be pretty stressful. So keep in mind that might bring your marks down in school. So you're gonna have to balance out what your priorities are. And if school is a big priority to you and you want to go do an engineering school, or medicine or law, you might want to think twice about trying to get a distraction like having a business, because it is extremely distracting.