An 11-year-old is cleaning his neighbors’ trash cans for $10 each—he now has 100K followers as teens face the worst summer job market since 1948
Teens are up against the worst summer job market in nearly 80 years, fighting just to get a shift at an ice cream shop. One 11-year-old is taking matters into his own hands and offering to clean his neighbors’ trash cans for $10.
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Teens are up against the worst summer job market in nearly 80 years, fighting just to get a shift at an ice cream shop. One 11-year-old is taking matters into his own hands and offering to clean his neighbors’ trash cans for $10. Once his school broke up for the summer break in May, Ashton Meyer began knocking on the doors of local residents of East Gwillimbury, Canada, to ask whether he could clear out their trash—and documenting each knock on Instagram and TikTok. “My name is Ashton, and I’m doing a service to clean out all of your bins—that includes your garbage, your green bin and your recycling,” he says on camera, door after door.
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An 11-year-old is cleaning his neighbors’ trash cans for $10 each—he now has 100K followers as teens face the worst summer job market since 1948
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