Is this 16 year old awesome or what?
American Story: From bad hair day to pay day
Bob Dotson introduces an ingenious teenage entrepreneur
By Bob Dotson
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 10:29 a.m. MT, Mon., May. 26, 2008
Today’s American Story with Bob Dotson comes from Williamstown, N.J., where a teenager thinks she’s found the key to success. It’s not a question of being dealt a good hand, she says. It’s playing a bad hand well, over and over again.
I found Jasmine Lawrence watching her mom struggle to learn how to load a high speed-labeling machine. Shampoo bottles were spinning and sticking, their labels crooked. April Lawrence hung her head in frustration
“There’s a label stuck here.”
“Oh, Lord,” mutters Jasmine.
She is living every kid’s dream. She gets to boss her mom.
“Hold the bottle up to here.” April works for her 16-year-old daughter.
“How’s that working out?” I smile. Jasmine’s mom laughs.
“A couple of times I thought she wanted to fire me!”