During 2004, Jamie Decker worked mornings at his uncle’s farm, nights at a neighbor’s farm, bought nine portable restrooms and started a business — all while he was a junior in high school. His ambition never let up. The following year he graduated a semester early and added a night shift job at the sawmill.
But after five years he was given a push into full-time self-employment. “It was tough to give up the job because I made really good money,” he says. “But in 2009 my uncle approached me to buy his septic business. So I put my two
