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Cleaning barbeques door to door earns Ontario teen tens of thousands for tuition
Global News
An 18-year-old Hamilton-area student says his one man door-to-door detailing business is earning him tens of thousand and putting him through university.
Two years ago Jacob Shaidle wasn’t thinking about expanding client bases and hiring help for his Hamilton, Ont. detailing business.
He was just wondering whether anyone would take him up on his offer to clean a barbeque when knocking on doors in his Ancaster neighbourhood.
“I was a little scared, to be honest. It’s always nerve-racking, even now, to go door-knocking,” Shaidle said.
“We had just moved here, I didn’t really know anyone up and down the street … but once you kind of get the hang of it, it gets a lot easier.”
The 18-year-old’s perseverance has paid off since undertaking his low-overhead and high-profit venture in the spring of 2021 raking in some $12,000 in his first year and another $16,000 the next.
“It was actually surprising, I started out at the back of the street and my first person was a ‘yes,'” he recalls. “Then I think I went about another 50 houses before getting another.”
In the summer before entering grade ten, Shaidle had aspirations of attending a post-secondary school while labouring on a farm.
Figuring out what kind of tuition he would have to put down for his university education, he soon realized he’d have to step up his earnings.