The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
May 7th, 2025Besides the valuable trade related courses, schools should include entrepreneurial courses as well, at least as an option.
I’ve been looking at other options besides pushing pixels and after watching only one Youtube video about starting a business, it began recommending countless other videos along those lines.
One of the most interesting videos I’ve watched was about a guy who created a dog poo cleanup empire:
Even if you have no interest in dealing with dog poo, that video goes into a lot of fascinating details about how the business operates, information systems, how they get customers, profit margin, etc. which could apply to many other types of businesses.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that the guy scoops the dog poop wearing a Rolex Batman (GMT-Master II) worth about $15,000.
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.
Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.
Employers ranging from the local transit system to submarine manufacturers make regular visits to Father Judge’s welding classrooms every year, bringing branded swag and pitching students on their workplaces.
This is good news. But the times being as uncertain as they are, I’d recommend jobs that don’t require electricity. Dog poop collection with a shovel, horse and cart sound ideal. You’d be popular if only as a quaint and nostalgic figure on the streets. But closely manage the nuisance factor: odors and spills and dog bites.