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Summary
A 19-year-old entrepreneur documents her nine-hour workday packaging orders for her jewelry business, Boardwalk Beads, following a busy Black Friday and exam week. She shares the behind-the-scenes reality of running a six-figure business while balancing college responsibilities.
Structure
1Morning routine and office setup
2Printing and organizing order slips
3Packaging jewelry orders
Original caption
DIML working from home after black friday and exams in college! #businessowner #teenentrepreneur #teenbusinessowner #businessdiml #sidehustles
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Mid-day break for family
5Evening packaging session
6Reflecting on business workload
Product placement
The creator is running her own jewelry business, Boardwalk Beads, which is the central subject of the video.
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9 HOUR WORK DAY AS A 19 Y/O ENTREPRENEUR
1st stop STARBUCKS
9:45 Back to the office
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10:45
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Transcript
Come spend the day with me as a 19-year-old college student who also owns a six-figure business. It is right after exam week, right after Black Friday, so I have 450 orders to package. So, let's go. First stop is Starbucks. Starbucks acquired. Back to the office. My office is absolutely a mess because this past few weeks have been so, so busy. First up is printing out the orders and answering some customer service emails. We can go ahead and print out the first 50 of the 440. Now what I do is I just go in and mark these for anything that they ordered two of or anything that I need to like note that they ordered. All 50 orders on their envelopes. My favorite part now is picking out what they ordered. I just grab and place. It definitely takes the most time out of anything. So, I have a feeling this will probably take me like 30 to 40 minutes. I only had two exams in college, so I was able to come home super early. I'm technically supposed to be in school until like next Friday, but because I had so many orders and because I don't have any more exams in person, I was able to come home last night. Just finished packaging those. I'm printing out 150 of the next order. These are the order slips. There's two per page, so this is what I'm working with. I am so grateful and so blessed to be in this position. 150 orders look like in a little stack of shipping labels. I've been packaging for about two or three hours. I think I've gotten through like 80 of them. I'm going to run to take these to the post office. It's like 3:00 p.m. right now, but I have to go meet my family for something. The only time that I get to drop off the packages before they actually have to go out tomorrow. Go meet up with my family and then come back and finish up the rest of today's batch. Here we go with batch number one. It's 6:00 p.m. and I just got back home from meeting up with my family and now it's time to pick up on the orders. I'm going to try to get through this batch of 150 by tonight. But the packaging grind continues. Okay, it is 9:30 p.m. and I just finished up the entire batch of 150. We are finally done. Today I packaged for nine hours in total. Four hours in the morning and then I was with my mom for like two hours, came back, did four more hours in the office. Tomorrow will probably be the same. I have more emails to answer and then I think I have 275 orders left to go. So, if I'm able to do the same, I did 200 today in total. If I can do 200 tomorrow and then 75 the next day, it'll put me on track to be done by the weekend, at least with what I have now. But yeah, I think a lot of people don't actually understand how much time goes into this business, just packaging alone, customer service, social media, like not to mention everything else that goes on. But this is usually what my busy days look like. Usually it's a lot less packaging, but obviously after Black Friday, it has been busy, busy. Thank you so much to everyone that has supported. And if you watch this vlog, I love you. I'm going to be posting a lot more content on YouTube about my business, so let me know what you guys want to know or what you guys want to see. But I'm going to bed now.
