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WHERE THERE’S A WILL

I’M WILL, a 13-year-old who has an obsession with burnouts, drags and tough cars. In lockdown last year, I began a business called Lowered & Lifted Car Drawings. It started with a few recreational drawings I did that my mum posted on Facebook, and she had people from as far away as Switzerland asking where to get them. So I started a business around my drawings. It was difficult at first, but after I figured out a system, I had it down to a science.

Back then, I was selling them for $10 a pop, but I still had people – even mates – saying that I was “charging too much” and that my business “isn’t going to work”. They tried to get me to quit before I’d even tried, but I persisted and kept it going.

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