To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
3A- My Entrepreneurship story
Back in 9th grade I got my very first job with my best friends older brother John David Peterson. He started his bee keeping career as a school project in the 8th grade. He had just graduated when I first started working for him. He was still pretty small time but with the help of me and my brother we turned a couple of bee hives into a flourishing business. After a couple of years of grinding away my brother and I started traveling with boss man and the bees to Wisconsin to pollinate the cranberries and then all the way to California to pollinate the almonds. We also traveled to south Florida to pollinate Orange grooves. One of the best managerial and entrepreneurship stories i have is when the whole crew bailed on a last minute trip to put queens in the hives so they can start producing honey. Bossman told me that if I hadn't decided to come even on short notice there was no way he could do this on his own. I was still in school at the time so we had to make this quick. We got there Friday evening and it poured rain the entire time. Thankfully we got seven out of twelve yards done but the last five were the biggest yards. On Saturday night Bossman ordered Pizza Meat lovers for him and a cheese pizza for me. I am awoken to John David puking his guts out at three in the morning and he claimed that pizza hut had given him severe food poisoning. So I had to drive out to all five yards put in over 300 queen cells by myself. To this day John David still tells me how much that meant to him and how much that helped out World Honey Market. He was a great entrepreneur to learn from and can't wait to implements everything he taught me to my own business one day.
To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration
but I can see now that I think I will enjoy this class.
To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration
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Hello Myles,
ReplyDeleteBeekeeping, wow! That’s a really cool small business start-up to get involved with. It also seems like something that was probably pretty rewarding seeing as how bees are struggling to survive right now with all the pesticides and climate changes affecting them. I would never have thought that they were in such high demand for pollination and that so many states were looking for this service but I guess that is how you break in to untapped markets. Awesome post, thanks for sharing.
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ReplyDeleteHello Myles,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very unique story. Beekeeping is such a far out profession for most people, it is very interesting that this was your first job, and as a high school student. This post was informative, I did not know that bees had to travel by demand of pollination. Thank you for sharing, I am glad to have learned about the industry and another student’s experiences.