Rapper and canny businessman Sean Combs says he first made a mint aged 12 – by doing the hustle. As a boy, Combs – aka P. Diddy – earned $1,000 a week from paper rounds.
He then worked at a diner, a petrol station and even cleaned toilets. The 51-year-old says: “I was raised in Harlem and my father was killed when I was two. “My mother had five jobs.
I’m from the roots of hustle. I was a paperboy, the first entrepreneurial thing I did. I would reach out to the boys about to go to college. "I asked if I could do their round and send them half the money.
I was making $1,000 a week as I kept all the other rounds on. What do you think of this story? Have your say in the comments below “I was a busboy in a restaurant, I pumped gas at a gas
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