Mike CernovichVerified account

Try shopping at good will for your clothes, or getting hand me downs from neighbors, I never a NEW piece of clothing until I was 13 years old

We would dumpster dive for aluminum cans or go to construction sites to collect them as well to earn money. I didn’t grow up poor though. I learned quite a bit at a young age.

I started cutting lawns for the neighborhood when I was 12 years old. Pushing the lawnmower with a gas can, trimmers and broom lodged against the handle. Made flyers and posted them in our grocery store. Tripled my customer count.

Delivered papers and TV Guides to homes. Mowed lawns. Did odd jobs as a kid. Later I did construction, dug ditches, and other manual labor jobs. After college, joined the Marines to avoid the draft. 21 Yrs in USMC w/3yrs in combat. Successful career post USMC. Life is good

We collected bottled for 4 years so we could take a vacation to Florida. Remember it clear as day.

At 11 years old I started babysitting after school for $1.50/day. I have always worked and always had a “side hustle.” This is America, we work! I’m so grateful that my parents instilled this ethic in me and my brothers.

Or crush aluminum cans and sell them to scrap yards.

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Walked the neighborhood with push mower and rake.

Kids including me would crawl under the boardwalk in Belvedere-Tiburon (!!!) for bottles to return for deposit.

I was all up on some aluminum cans

Construction site were a gold mine for can / bottle collecting

I didn't grow up poor but I also didn't get an allowance. That meant any money I wanted I had to hustle myself. -Lawns mowed -Snow shoveled -Lemonaid sold If somebody would give you money for it, there was something needing doing when you're young. That sticks with you.

Glass bottles. Check. Paper route taught me discipline, consistency, collections, service and how to weed out bad clients.