My Entrepreneurship Story

       My entrepreneurship story is about me and cantaloupes. When I was twelve years old me and my best friend, who lived on a farm, had an opportunity to make some money. My friend's dad set aside some land for us and thought it would be a good idea if we planted cantaloupes to make a little money. So, my friend's dad, Gerald, went and bought us cantaloupe seed and told us he would get his money back whenever we grew the cantaloupes and sold them. I went over to his house one weekend and we spent two days digging and planting these cantaloupe seeds. We made a fence out of some rope and stakes to try an keep the animals out. After a few weeks the seeds began to take and things were looking good. Then about a month in disaster struck the cantaloupe patch in the form of cows. See my friend also kept cows in the same field with the cantaloupes. One day the cows got into our patch and just destroyed our crop. The cantaloupes stopped growing and they were not near big enough to sell to the fruit stands like we had planned on doing.

 

*This was about as big as our cantaloupes got

All was not lost though. Mr. Gerald called some friends of his who were farmers and convinced them to buy the little cantaloupes that had turned out for pig feed. So, when the buyers came me and Jared, my friend, loaded the truck with the cantaloupes. At the end of the day after we paid Mr. Gerald for the seeds we ended up with about $50 a piece for three days worth of work. That was my first and last experience as a farmer.

     As for the reason I enrolled in this class, the main reason is it is an elective credit for my major in Sports Management. I also hoped that it would help me learn how to be more entrepreneurial because I am a certified personal trainer but, I have had some trouble attracting clients. I thought this class may teach me more about running a business and how to better present myself and promote myself to potential clients.