Still in school and think you found a way to make money from what you love? This is called entrepreneurship, and done right it’s perfectly valid to make them both. Matthew Turcotte is 16 and a junior in High School. He started a business – he does sites for the city authorities and customers around the small town where he lives.
Cristian: How did you come up with the idea to start a business?
Matthew: About 3 years ago, my uncle was running for county sheriff and asked me for assistance with a website for h is campaign. I agreed and with a little research I was able to get his site up within a few weeks. A few weeks later, I was at church when the local Town Supervisor came up to me and asked me what I had been up to. I told him about the website that I had helped my uncle with and he mentioned to me that the local town was interested in having web renovations done for their website. After a few months of work and research I had the Town’s website completed. Creating websites was fun and I loved being paid to work in my own home. It has been to dream to run my own business since the 1st grade, and I saw this as an opportunity to work for myself and be an entrepreneur.
Curious to know how this works? Read the interview here.
