How I Made $5,000 When I Was 10?

Eric Allen McMurphy JR.
3 min readApr 8, 2022

Hi I’m Eric, I grew up in a poor family. My friends had a good childhood. They had bicycles. And they wouldn’t let me use it.

Things like this happen at a young age. It’s like they made that much money themselves. All of them came from their families, but they were making money with their own efforts and enjoying themselves. This is not nice behavior.

I’ve been shy since childhood. My shyness is critical. I don’t even open social media accounts. It bothers me a lot when people talk bad about me. My wife forced me to start a blog. According to him, I have an amazing life story. She said people should know that. I am here now. Now I will tell you how I earned my first money.

My friends had bikes. I didn’t have it. My family was poor. I sat and cried. Then I realized that crying couldn’t fix it. Then I started to think. But nothing came to my mind. One day I saw a donation box at school. People were putting their money in the donation box without getting anything in return. This is incredible. I immediately looked for people in need around me.

I had my eye on the shelter in our neighborhood. I spoke to shelter owners and asked questions in the name of school research. I saw that the shelter needed $1000 support.

My plan was pretty simple. I would take half of the money for myself and half for the shelter. I wanted to continue this donation at my school, but they wouldn’t let me. I bought a box and wrote that I was collecting donations for the shelter. I started fundraising in front of the school with this box. No one donated on the first day and I got a lot of ridicule.

On the second day, I did not go to the front of the school. It was already a bad idea. Students have no money. On the second day, I went in front of a company and won $30. I went there for a week. My family didn’t know. I made $150 in a week.

Over the weekend, my family found out and my father banned me. But I had no intention of being mocked again. I burned the ships. I walked to a place a few kilometers away and collected it in front of the companies there. Even my father’s spirit did not hear.

It was exhausting and I collected $500. I could buy myself a bike with that money, but that would be unethical. I would cheat. This is wrong behavior. Keep working. I started thinking about reaching more people. And I came up with a brilliant idea.

I started to publish donations privately and publicly. Those who want to hide their name, those who do not want, write their name on the banner and write how much money they donated. The smug rich began to donate more to appear more prestigious. I raised $30000 in less than a month. It was very difficult to hide this money from my family. I took $5,000 of this money for myself. I donated the rest. When donating, my name was Mr. Green I did it as green. (Hulk :)

Every evening at dinner with my family, my father’s I quite liked it when I heard him talk about Mr. Green for days. Fear not, I told this to my father at the age of 18. :)

I had such an epic start to entrepreneurship. Then I made different attempts. Of course, I’ll explain that later. You can follow me or not, however you like. I will continue to blog here to solve my shyness. Please don’t bully. Please give constructive criticism. This is pretty important to me. Thank you for everything.

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