Owlagdad said:
Read about a kid who started with a lawnmower and weedeater. He now owns seven trucks and trailers with equipment.
It's the American way. Americans have forgot how to do it. Many immigrants have done it because they have gumption.
Get in your 40s and old? Get another crew and you get an f150 or Silverado and check on things. Not real backbreaking, and probably good for you.
Had a client who started his own rural garbage service. He and his wife had an old beat up pickup, he bought a very used garbage truck, an old school one that you put the garbage in the back. Then bought a second one. First year, they grossed about $40,000. Second year around 90 something, I remember it being just under $100k.
Kept on keeping on, hit $250k, got some roll-off dumpsters, then a couple of years later he was over $500. After about 7 years he was at $996,000 so I called him and told him how disappointed I was in him. He asked me why and I said if you had worked a little harder, grossed another $4,000, I would be able to say that I knew a guy who didn't finish high school, who drove a nice new pickup as did his wife, had $300,000 or so in the bank, and grossed a million dollars picking up garbage. A couple of years later he sold it all to one of the majors for $1.4 million.
Have seen other examples but this is the best one I personally saw of going from absolutely nothing to building a very good business all because of hard work, taking risks, and taking care of your customers.