This raw deconstruction of the "be your own boss" myth exposes the grueling emotional labor and constant friction inherent in small-scale entrepreneurship. It is a sobering look at the psychological endurance required when the reality of logistics collides with the romanticism of independence.
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At what point do you just say, "You know what? I give up. I can'ting do this anymore." Hello.
>> Hello.
>> Yeah. Did they get that mower fixed?
>> Yeah, they did. It was a bad wire. Um, I went out to start the truck.
Um, I've got lights and stuff. It's just not starting.
And you messed with the headlight switch and the door and all that.
>> Yep.
>> Okay.
>> I mean, what? I just flick it off, right? And then back on.
>> Yeah. Turn it on and off and mess with it. It's got a security thing, you know. Is a security light flashing on the dash.
Uh like the the lock symbol.
>> Yeah, >> it's not flashing, but it's there.
>> Yeah. So, it's something with the something with the truck.
Uh >> yeah, it starts just clicking.
>> It's clicking.
>> Yeah, it's just when I turn the key, it just clicks. That's it.
All right, let me call you back.
All right, sounds good.
I don't know at what point At what point do you just say, "You know what? I give up. I can'ting do this anymore.
What in the is going on?
What? I don't I I am just beyond belief.
I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. This bad. I'm going to end up in the hospital. There there's just no way.
So, the mower that wouldn't start, no idea why. We put a new starter on it, swapped all the parts, can't be done.
All right, haul the [ __ ] sucker all the way over to the dealership. They fix it. They put it in the trailer. They get back to Fenomore, go to take it out of the trailer. Guess what? Doesn't start.
It doesn't start. won't start.
Okay, haul it back there. Then we'll go back to the dealership. Luckily, the dealership's nice and looks at it right away and fixes it. Back on the trailer.
Now, the truck won't start. You can't make this up. This is absolutely mind-boggling to me. So, earlier this week, this truck wouldn't start. So, we hauled the back to the shop and put a new starter in it.
Much like the lawn mower, it start ran a couple days. Now, we're hauling the mower over to get it fixed cuz it won't start. Get that fixed. Get out to the truck and the truck won't start.
I don't know, man. I don't I don't know anymore, you know, and and this is just part of the problems. Like, I'm literally just getting off the phone with a problem with my child at school. I'm literally putting out fires constantly and then this stupid dumb [ __ ] like this just sends me over the edge just, you know, like maybe just aing pinch of good luck here. Just a pinch, just a pinch of good luck. Something going right would be excellent right now.
>> Get up there. Richie, come. How may I help you?
>> Can I get your lawn and garden service department, please?
>> Sure, just a second.
>> Representing more than 175 years of industry experience.
>> Oh, sir, can I help you?
>> Hey, this is Caleb with Pagel Services.
How you doing?
>> Good.
>> Hey, did you >> He just left.
>> Okay.
>> He just left with it.
>> What did you guys figure out on that?
So the yellow wire that goes into the main harness halfway back by the connector back there was literally rubbed through and then corroded and there was only like two strands actually sending power to it. So >> okay, >> took him a while to figure out where it was broke, but he did finally find the pot with damage.
>> Well, at least we found the exact issue.
>> Yep.
>> Um so here's my next problem. That kid that brought it over there, mind you, it's his like second day working for me.
He has no idea what's going on. Um, he walks out and his truck won't start. We literally just put a starter in that truck on Tuesday and now the truck won't It doesn't sound like the starter is engaging or something.
>> He's out there out here yet.
>> Yeah. And this kid, this kid, it's his first time driving a truck. He has no idea what's going on. So, I was going to see if you had somebody that could just go out and just help him for five minutes. Let's see what we get. All right.
>> I mean, we literally just put a >> we just put a new starter on it. They've been driving it for two days.
You know, I don't worst case, I guess, we try and hit it with a hammer. I don't know. Between that and this mower, I'm about ready to burn them down. So, it's been a pretty rough week, but yeah, if you could send somebody out, I would truly appreciate that.
>> Yeah, we'll go take a look at it quick.
>> Appreciate it. Thank you.
>> Thank you. You bet.
>> Yeah. Bye.
you ever want to think about owning your own business, just do AI or, you know, create a software company. Don't don't do this.
This is this is chaos. I I don't understand. I [ __ ] just drains you, man.
Like it's, you know, and I know, you know, there's guys out there that be like, "Oh, you're just being aing baby." You know, it's like, okay, there's a thousand other problems and guess what?
900 of them I can't put on YouTube. So, because they're either a personal or b a customer or c an employee, like we just can't put all that on YouTube. So, if we could, if I wanted to put my personal life on there, put more about the employees on there, more about the customers on there, easily. Easily a million subscribers, guaranteed.
But I got to hold all that [ __ ] in, boys.
So, we're just, you know, we're just living the dream over here. I got somebody coming to get some rock and then I got to go screen dirt and then I got to go do a delivery and then I got to come back and finish putting the hitch on that truck and I should be at the office helping Kyle. So, you know, it's going pretty good, man.
You know, now they're, you know, are they going to call me and be like, "Ah, it won't start."
I don't know. You know, then what?
I just I don't get it. I don't understand. Sean said he put a new starter on that truck. He said the trigger wire was corroded and looked like [ __ ] so he replaced the end on it, you know. And I I trust Shawn working on stuff, you know. He's not like when John replaced stuff and would miss things and just halfass put it back together. Sean actually puts things back together correctly. So not, you know, I I don't know. It It feels like bad luck. It It really does.
It's just overwhelming. Yeah. So the mechanic went out and looked at it and he thinks it's a starter. So said the starter smells burnt.
All right. Two day old starter. That's great. So truck's over there. It won't start. Got a 20 foot enclosed trailer on it with a kid that's never drove truck.
>> Yeah. Well, >> yeah. What are you doing?
>> Well, about to go and grab some lunch here at Daisy's.
>> I could really use some help right now if you're around.
>> Oh, yeah. What? At the shop or what?
Well, you're not going to believe me when I tell you this because it's like I'm in an alternate universe or somebody's filming a TV show on me right now. But 208 and the enclosed trailer are in Cobb at Richie and the sucking truck won't start.
>> Oh my god.
>> So, I don't have time to go over there.
So, I think go grab your truck 217 and hook up to that black trailer, which I'll have to go back there and take the pallets off and we'll put 214 on the trailer and I'll have you haul 214 over to him.
unload that and then get 208 on the trailer and bring it back here again.
>> Oh boy. All righty.
>> So, I'll go get 214 and that trailer ready.
>> All right.
>> So, you can at least just come out and hook up and and the It's the lawnmower store is all tore up over there.
Oh, yep.
>> So, I guess it's like two blocks behind there somewhere.
>> All right.
>> Something. Okay. Thanks.
>> Yep.
>> Okay. Bye.
>> Bye.
>> All right, man. Woo. Positivity. Just got to think positive. That's what the therapist will tell you. That's what all these gurus on the internet will tell you. Just think positive. Everything's great. Gosh dang. Everything's going good today. Hey, we're so lucky. This is awesome. Everything's going great.
Everything's going good. You know, I like going and getting a truck twice a week rope down. I like changing starters twice. I like taking mowers back over to the dealerships multiple times. Not blaming the dealership, but you know, it's just like one thing after another.
This is just This is just absolutely [ __ ] crazy. All right, guys. Sorry about that. a little crash out I had there. So, uh, when you own a business, you go through stuff like this all the time. And, uh, you know, maybe there's business owners out there that'll tell you they don't struggle, uh, through hard times, and I would find that BS.
Um, there are, you know, there's a lot of ups and downs in owning a business.
So, you guys got to see me uh, super stressed out. Uh, there's no acting there. Um, I knew [ __ ] was going to go off the fan there and I just hit record on the camera and just let it go. Um, you know, and just that's just me being transparent and, uh, showing you guys how life really is, uh, owning a small business. Now, I did end up getting that truck fixed, um, which I spent my Saturday doing. Another lovely advantage of owning a small business. uh came in Saturday, uh ripped the starter out of it and called the auto parts store and I said, "Hey, have you guys had problems with these starters?" And he goes, "Yeah, we've had a few come back."
And I'm just like, "Oh, awesome. Okay, well, it's known they're junk and we're selling them." So, replace the starter and the truck runs good. Um, we got it all fixed up and then uh spent a couple hours washing the truck and getting it back so that uh Eric and Nolan could have it for this week. You know, we really contemplated on posting this segment. You know, I told Derek, I said, I I don't really want to post that on YouTube. Um, so hope you guys appreciate that. You know, I know there are a lot of business owners out there that have this fairy tale uh YouTube channel that everything's great and high-five all their employees every day and everything's super and positive. I promise you, they have days like that.
They just don't record them. They just don't show you guys the real actual stuff. So, um but we're past that.
Everything's going pretty good this week. So, let's get into the shop. I got to get working on something here and uh get some stuff done.
All right, we got to add a little something to this trailer. I don't like the way that these chains and binders and straps are all in here. Ordered a toolbox for it. And we're going to put that on there for you.
Having a nice toolbox like this, you know, really makes makes the trailer a lot nicer. So, let's mount this baby up quick.
Sure is nice having all these nuts and bolts on hand.
I'll tell you what, I used to hate having to run to the store every single time or you're looking through bucket of bolts and all that [ __ ] And I have installed probably half a dozen of these tool boxes. So I do know the quick and easy way to do it.
No nuts when you got the push nuts. These things are nice. Derek Derek says, "You want me to record this?
Just screwing in bolts. I don't know. I guess what else should we add to this trailer?
Somebody's going to say add a winch. I don't know.
In my experience, if you're going to use the trailer and you have a winch on it, sure. But if you're going to have employees or like buddies borrowing it, you don't want a winch on there. Your winch needs you have to be smart when you're using it.
And most people don't care when it's not their trailer and not their winch. So, well, what else could we do to this trailer, guys? Just to make it a little nicer for you guys. If you got an idea, put it down in the comments. Somebody's probably going to say, "Put a new skid loader on it." Yeah. If you guys got any other ideas on what else we could add to this trailer, put it down in the comments. A little bit of time left. We could probably add uh one or two more things if you guys got any ideas.
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>> They're fixed up the scale this weekend.
>> Fixed the scale?
>> Yeah, that antique one from the supply center.
>> Okay. Cleaned her all up. Now I got a bird feeder hanging on it.
Then I'm going to put a potted flower on the scale farm.
>> Nice. You going to show us when it's all done and looking pretty?
>> Yeah.
>> All right. Of course.
>> Yeah. Sweet. Okay.
>> Got to buy flowers first. Broke this week.
>> Just wait for Mother's Day.
>> That would be awesome. It does straighten up on this last four or five blocks.
>> Well, Derrick, every time you're here, I got to give out bad news.
>> Okay.
>> So, >> what is it, Hunter?
>> Well, you see here.
>> Right here. No, right here.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. And then you see down there at the end of the other end.
You see any more caps?
anywhere.
>> Oh, wow. Good for you. So, everything you cut off, you'll then have to connect back together to create this one single cap on this corner.
>> No, there's one, two, three, and then four.
>> Oh, there's more.
>> Yeah, >> I need four more.
>> Oh, >> but get me 10 more because >> Just in case.
>> Just because.
>> How many have you cut so far?
>> Zero. I haven't even started.
Glue them down and get on with it.
>> No. No. I know. Yeah.
All right. So, I'm done. We need five more.
>> What do you think of what Sean's doing over there? He was drinking out of the hose.
>> Well, I don't know if I would out of that hose.
Those cloth stretchy hats.
Look at that like a glove.
Mhm.
Perfect.
Goting kidding.
Oh, hey. Oh, hey. You didn't hear none of that.
>> No.
>> Okay.
God damn it.
>> You're going to have to cut a lot of these, huh?
>> Yes.
>> I'm not kidding. These guys will be done with the dirt work, seed, and straw when I'm probably finishing up.
Why couldn't it just be straight?
I' been done by now. straight that much easier.
>> Yeah, cuz they are straight.
>> Now I got to go.
What?
>> You can try. I don't know. I don't care.
What's that, Sean? Well, if you need to bring it up a little bit, you can. That one's a little bit longer, thicker.
One screw I think it is. There might be two.
Yeah. Loosen that.
This is the depth.
It's like if you want to just Yeah. You want to make sure it's cutting all the way through.
Yeah. You're going to go down about right there.
Oh yeah, that cut all the way through.
Perfect.
>> Just want to make sure. Okay, >> Drock, >> going to move some dirt.
>> Mhm.
>> And put dirt somewhere else. Just moving dirt.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Oops.
There's a GFI like there's GFI on the >> Mhm.
>> I might have blew the breaker on that.
Did you try that?
Heat. Heat.
That's four.
Heat.
Heat.
I'll give you $5.
Maybe I'll give you 20 bucks to eat this.
Yeah, probably not.
Crisp. $20 bill. What is it?
That looks like a grub.
thing's flopping around.
>> 20 bucks.
>> I got my fishing pole in the back seat.
Maybe I could take it to the river.
>> There you go.
>> Put it in a fish's mouth.
>> Okay. Live down there.
All right.
Heat.
Heat.
Whoa.
Right there.
Right. I need this corner here.
You know what I mean?
That might be a right gap.
Huh?
Yeah, it's backwards now. You piece of [ __ ] >> Better come and tell them you need six.
>> Well, no. I only need one, two, three, four. I told him I need five.
But that No, that still shouldn't matter.
>> Can't just flip them all upside down and it'll work. That's not how this works.
That's how the puzzles work in my video games. I don't know. Is that how >> No, >> that's not how it works here.
>> No.
>> Okay.
>> This is real life. Just want to let you know.
>> Okay. Thanks.
>> Yeah. If you didn't get that, >> maybe let's take this slide this one out, Sean. Get this right and then we can do the measurement here.
You know, like I can 11 and 11 and 12.
You're going to want to cut this one first, aren't you? Cuz it's going to shorten it up.
I got 18.
All right.
Why I say this?
I don't have that much though. Guess we could always just look at that.
>> Hi. What'd you find?
>> A bone.
>> Nice.
Someone's femur.
>> That's a dog bone.
>> That's a tree.
>> That's not tree.
>> That's a tree bone.
>> No, >> that's a bone bone.
>> Yep. That is a bone bone.
>> Big bone. You >> got this figured out yet? She's practically got all the dirt work done by now. Hunter D, can you just shut the up >> and get the out of here?
>> All right, see you guys.
>> If you're going to act like this, >> there's a lot of bleeps I'm going to have to do now.
>> Well, >> all right. Sounds good. See you guys later.
>> Yeah, get out of here.
>> Ollie just washing her hands.
>> Yeah, >> that's how she washes. My go >> sand exfoliating >> natural. All natural.
>> Yeah.
>> See, it's going to be the same way right here.
>> Yeah, the wrong way. Wrong way.
>> We'll take this one over there and I'll get that measured. And then >> Sean, can I ask you a question? On this little step here and that step over there you guys are working on is what happened.
Hunter had all the blocks backwards and then he measured them. Is that what happened?
>> Yeah, heed up.
>> But the rest is all good, right?
>> Ain't there yet?
M minerals.
>> Yes.
Silica dust.
What?
Oh, wrong way. I knew that.
Boom.
Heat. Heat.
All right, we also want to give a big thank you to all of our elite members here on our YouTube channel. Now, if you guys don't know, all you got to do is click join on our YouTube page, and for 10 bucks a month, you can become an elite member. You get access to all of our behind-the-scenes footage, all of our blooper reels, and all of our podcasts. And then once a month, we pick a random winner and we send them something. Power tools, trailer tester, whatever it may be. We just pick out one of our elite members. And uh this month here, uh Tim And this month, Tim Wal or Walthal.
So, this month we are giving away another trailer wiring tester, guys. We build these in-house and uh we want to make sure plenty of you guys get them.
So, Tim Wal Wthal, $14.99. He's an elite member of Pagel Services and uh he's going to be getting sent this trailer wiring tester. All he's got to do is email us at uh mediapagelervices.net and uh we'll get you this sent out. We thank you guys for being elite Paggelervices members. Now, another thing I want to talk about, guys, is we finally have this figured out where our elite members are going to get entries every month. So, if you're an elite member, you're going to get a,000 entries every month into every giveaway.
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>> Eric Young Buck ain't even got a sweatshirt on. You got a sweatshirt, a coat, a hat, pants.
>> I I just put the coat on and down from the truck. I've been stripping down all day.
>> I'm going to go put a coat on myself.
I'm It's a little chilly out here for me.
>> All right, guys. We got a gift in the mail here. Well, I guess I say gift.
This could be a box full of dog [ __ ] We don't know. But uh it's from Paul in uh Minnesota. And uh let's see what we got here.
And uh looks like we got some salsa. So, if you guys don't know, uh, somebody sent us some salsa last year and it was like all fermented. We opened the jar and it was like bubbling out of there. We didn't know if it was from the heat or whatever, but uh, so it looks like somebody's trying again. He's even got them labeled mild salsa, hot salsa, and lime salsa.
So, we'll save this stuff and uh, probably try it on the next live. He must be a fan of Dan as well. Looks like he sent a Coleman lantern. It's addressed to Caleb and Dan. I love your YouTube channel. I don't miss an episode. I can't wait till next episode.
I'm sending you some of my homemade salsa. And for Dan is a Coleman lantern clock. I have never seen one, so I thought you could add it to your collection.
Drock, I have a few sports cards I am sending out your way.
>> Hey, even I get some stuff. Woohoo. Uh, you guys and gals rock. All of you. I have entered several of your giveaways, but haven't won yet. That's my luck, but I will keep trying.
Well, Paul, we appreciate you sending this stuff out. Uh, this isn't going to help you get entered in the giveaway at all, but uh we'll definitely uh try some of this salsa. We'll try to do that on a live and then uh we'll have to surprise Dan with his with his new Coleman clock lantern.
As you guys know, Dan collects Coleman lanterns and such stuff like this. So, uh, we really appreciate this. Paul, thank you very much. Uh, thanks for being a supporter of our YouTube channel. We truly do appreciate you guys. And, uh, we couldn't be doing this without you guys. So, >> a few moments later.
>> Oh, we got a name.
>> Paul from Minnesota.
>> Paul from Minnesota.
>> That's for you, Dan.
Nice Coleman lantern alarm clock.
>> Do you even have one?
>> Yeah, I got one in every color they have. But they're still appreciated.
This one's brand new. Still got the tag on it. Two-year warranty. I'm betting that's expired.
>> And didn't you say your green one was kind of broken, so you needed a new green one?
>> Oh, yeah. I think I left batteries in it too long or something and it got all corroded. But yeah, 2008.
I was going to say it's been a while since they made them, but they're nice to have. The batteries are dead in it.
Otherwise, they light up pretty. But thank you, Paul. I'll put that to good use.
>> Give the camera a kiss.
>> Kissing the camera.
>> Say thanks, Paul.
>> All right. Want to do a little message to our locals here in Southwest Wisconsin. Um, it it really amazes me how many of you local folks watch our channel and we truly do appreciate that.
Every time one of us goes out somewhere, we always got people coming up to us and saying, "Hey, nice job on the videos."
We watch them all and we truly appreciate you guys. Um, I could use a little bit of your guys' help right now.
And what I'm looking for is I'm looking for two experienced landscapers. So, um, we need some more help on our crew right now. and uh we're having trouble finding the exact right candidate that we want.
Uh we want someone that's not afraid to work um that is organized, knows how to read a tape measure, possibly knows how to run some equipment, skid loaders, stuff like that. Um if you got a CDL, that's a plus. So, if you guys are at all interested, make sure to head on over to our website, pegleservices.net.
Um you can fill out an application form there and uh send that in. And also with that being said, we do get a lot of guys that talk about relocating. Um, I'm not really looking for that. Um, I don't want somebody to relocate to work for us just based off of our YouTube videos.
So, essentially, I don't really want to hire somebody that's going to move here just for us. Like I said, we're just looking for two more landscapers right now. So, if you locals know of anybody around here that's looking for a job, 40 hours a week, we're in the southwest Wisconsin area here and uh we got plenty of jobs lined up and we could use some more help. So, send them on over to pagleservices.net, fill out an application, I'll take a look at it and we'll set up an interview. Thank you.
>> Out in southwest Wisconsin, where the work gets done, we ain't about the fake.
We just show the real fun. From fixing up the houses to clearing out the land.
A little bit of sweat and a whole lot of hands. Ain't no script.
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