Summer Businesses for High School Students? 184
An anonymous reader asks: "A friend and I are going into our final year of high school, and given a variety of factors (the relative paucity of technology jobs for HS students, etc.), would like to start our own business. We'll probably have about $1000 in capital, but (in effect) start out with no other resources other than our own skills (technical and otherwise). We have no constant access to a car, which means on-site tech support is effectively out. We'd like to start something in the technology field (IT, software design, hardware construction - we can solder, web design, etc.), but are open to any suggestions. We'd also like some sort of business we can start this summer, but can continue to maintain. What do you suggest as a business idea for the summer->longer term?"
First you need a good business plan (Score:3, Funny)
Step 1: Steal Underpants
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
Rince, and repeat.
Easy (Score:5, Funny)
2) Use clothes and phat car to get hot women
3) Pimp out hot women
4) Profit, motherfucker. Profit.
Start a lemonaid stand... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, it's not 1999. Forget I said anything.
Wow, I think it couldn't get any broader. (Score:5, Funny)
And little money. Check
And you're young. Check
And don't have much of an idea on what to do. Check
I hate to be the first one to tell you, but million dollar ideas aren't sitting around waiting to find you on slashdot. It's going to be up to you and your friend to decide what's best here. As a consultant I can tell you, with no idea what you want to do, you really should hire a consultant if you want this to be anything more than you making webpages for people you know over the summer.
You're going to be fighting an uphill battle, most businesses won't talk to you based purely on age and lack of business experience. The one thing I would suggest if you do this, do it right and get insurance, because if you're handling something worth thousands, you don't want to be held liable if you break it.
paucity: n, Smallness of number; fewness. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry kids. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd probably be selling it on a late night television infomercial with Tony Robbins and that other guy with the shiny teeth.
Re:Where do you live? (Score:1, Funny)
p.s. are you sure you should be donating? we're talking contamination of the future of the human race, here.
Re:Where do you live? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First you need a good business plan (Score:4, Funny)
When dealing with stolen underpants, repeated rinsing is most definitely a good idea!
I AM GLAD YOU ASKED (Score:5, Funny)
I have an excellent opportunity for you. I am the ASSISTANT COLONEL VICE FINANCE MINISTER of a corrupt third-world dictatorship, and I am trying to embezzle foreign aid money. I have diverted FORTY-SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($47,000,000) from the International Petroleum Reserve Slush Fund to a separate expense ledger sub-account within my country's incomprehensibly complex banking system.
Unfortunately, my country's laws require me to find a RANDOM STRANGER ON THE INTERNET to complete this transaction. If you have the IQ OF BREAD MOLD, this could be you! I need to transfer the money into a U.S. bank account, rather than an account in an actaul banking haven. We would split the money as follows:
Now, to begin the transaction I simply need $1,000 from you as an EMBEZZLEMENT TRANSFER FEE. For reasons I can't explain, because I'm making this up as I go along, I am unable to pay this amount myself, though it amounts to FIVE THOUSANDTHS OF ONE PERCENT of my profit.
Simply withdraw your money in small bills and FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET and my operatives will remove it from the sewer system and deposit the money into your account. I TRUST IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS H. FUCKING CHRIST that you are a trustworthy person who will do the right thing.
Sincerely,
COLONEL DOGUM GUNUN KUTLU OLSUN
Re:Where do you live? (Score:5, Funny)
How does one put "jerking off" onto a resume tactfully? What if you have to tell the interviewer about your responsibilities and problem-solving skills? "I, uh, was really struggling for a few minutes as the porn mag didn't do anything for me, so I really tried hard to think of that girl at school, and badaboombadabing problem solved. BTW, I'm already a member of the prestigious Gallon Club."
Re:Have you considered mowing grass? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have you considered mowing grass? (Score:4, Funny)
You mean, running around at night watering all the lawns you mowed during the day?
Grow marijuana (Score:4, Funny)
For $1000 you should be able to improvise a small hydroponic operation....focus the money on the lights....you can even just use compact fluorescents for the mother plants for cloning, and keep the HIDs for flowering time.
You can probably turn $5000-10000 profit over the summer (~90 days).
Good luck.
-psy
Hire an attorney (Score:2, Funny)
here's an idea... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First things that come to mind... (Score:5, Funny)
> Please don't start up a hosting company.
Followed by a link to reseller accounts for starting a hosting company!!!!
Horse shit (Score:3, Funny)
2. Sell the 'proceeds' from the stables as fertilizer
3. Profit!
4. When busted for not paying tax on the fertilizer, point out taxes were paid on sale of the hay the horses ate and exclaim, "We're getting taxed at both ends!"
Re:First things that come to mind... (Score:3, Funny)