A Teenage Entrepreneur

In 1998 14 year old Jodie came up with an idea, since the threat put out by her Grandmother seemed to be really serious. Not ever working again until she was 18 was a hard pill to swallow, she had to come up with a way to keep money in her pockets. I mean at 14 she wasn't trying to do anything but buy snacks and Ice cream cones for the children on the block who couldn't get one. That was something she liked to do.

Jodie pulled all her neighborhood friends together and had a meeting about them becoming a drill team. The plan would be to go door to door and collect donations and they would have money everyday. Jodie told one group of young people to always be standing on the sidewalk when they went to a house so that they could look like the drummers and we were raising money for their drums.

Then there was the group that went just up close enough to the door, just in case someone asked to see a step, they could buss one out. The two spokes persons would be Jodie's cousin and herself. This worked very well for a couple summers. They never actually became an official drill team but this tactic worked throughout her teenage years in different forms. Her tax paying career started at 17 and her Entrepreneurship was put on hold.

This is a pic of a drill team in Washington. In my mind this is what we would've looked like at that time.

-Photo Courtesy of a Washington Drill team

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