My name is Edward Neff and I am a senior at Gulf Breeze High School in Gulf Breeze, Florida. I plan on majoring in Business Administration next year at Auburn Honors College or The University of Florida. My love for business and money began at an early age when I started my first business selling golf balls on my local golf course. Shortly after I sold my first batch of product for a good profit (since the product was free) I was hooked. I kept doing this business venture for years and began buying toys and miscellaneous items I wanted at the time. But, that process of selling golf balls for items soon came to an end after I read a book in 5th grade that introduced me to the concept of buying and selling stocks. When I told my parents about this they were thrilled and quickly made me a Merill Lynch account. Luckily this was December of 2016 and Ferrari just made their stock public for the first time for $50 a share. Being a huge car nut enticed me to buy 10 shares of this stock using my Christmas money and Golf ball money. In addition to this, my grandparents bought me 5 shares of Nike which also went public at the time. Shortly after this, a friend's older brother introduced me to Stash which allowed me to use my spare change to invest in companies. At the time there was some foreign tension that prompted me to invest all my spare change into defense funds. Looking back at it, these early investments turned into massive wins in my young trading career as today Ferrari is worth over 300 dollars a share, Nike is worth over 100 dollars a share, and my defense investments made the biggest profits as the U.S is constantly pushing contracts for new weapons given all the events in the world today. Nowadays I still invest on a larger scale using the profits from those investments and others (which allowed me to buy half of my Jeep Wrangler and all the accessories) but I have stretched myself to other areas as well. Over the last summer, I started thrifting and selling clothes on Poshmark which has been a lot of fun but profit margins are thin because I have to drive a long way to find items to sell. With college approaching I am looking into the future for new ways to make money to pay for my living expenses. So far my most prominent business plan is a cleaning and lifestyle adjustment service that helps people clean, learn to organize, and declutter their space. I don't know about some of the specifics of my plan, but I have already figured out my advertising. I plan on going to sororities and contracting them to post TikTok and Instagram reels about my company and giving them a percent of my profits. I think this business model will work best at Auburn given how the student population is and how popular the sororities are on social media. After college, I have no idea what I'll end up doing. But theoretically, after I leave Auburn or UF I should be placed in a pretty good job to start with while I still earn passive income. What the future holds, I do not know, but what I do know is that I will continue to invest money into the market and have a small business with a steady cash flow so no matter what life throws at me I'll have a leg to stand on.