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Trials & Tribulations - The drama of running a business and of life. It's not as easy as it looks. Running a business is full of drama. Customers, employees, money, family, time. You name it, it's a problem. Share with us your drama and how you handled it.

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Trials & Tribulations - The drama of running a business and of life.

It's not as easy as it looks. Running a business is full of drama. Customers, employees, money, family, time. You name it, it's a problem. Share with us your drama and how you handled it.
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I'm in the same boat as you right now, i found myself an old snowblower and I don't know how much income it's going to generate but hey, it's money !.

2nd of all, I found myself a part time job (same part time job as last winter) doing Outdoor rinks for the City (1 hr from here) They pay $9.50/hr for 25 hrs a week so I was planning to do some snow removal in between that. I can basically make my own hours too.

So I hope this helps...

Lol, I wanna move to Ontario man!

We should start our own sketchy snow removal service with snow blowers lol.

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http://www.tracklessvehicles.com/blowers.htm

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Lol, I wanna move to Ontario man!

We should start our own sketchy snow removal service with snow blowers lol.

Check this out:

http://www.tracklessvehicles.com/blowers.htm

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I've seen those in the city 1 hr from me before, they have the snow blower/sander, sweeper for the spring and the mowers for the grass soccer fields.. I've tried to apply for one of those jobs without any success.. maybe one day !
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