Small businesses definitely need help making things easier, good luck with our current congress...cant blame everything on the government though, maybe they need Bar Rescue before they blow all their parents money...Sounds like this guy benefited a lot from education. Why wasn't he happy with his minimum wage job, isn't more jobs what we need?

Our President

Having achieved the American dream as a small business owner, TJ Reilly is today the President of the Oregon Small Business Association.

In 1976 TJ was pumping gas and flipping hamburgers for $2.50 an hour. Not content to make minimum wage, he began taking car repair classes. Within a few years he made a good living wage working as a technician for a new car dealership. Desiring to do better still, he started taking business management classes and eventually earned his AAM degree in Automotive Management. In 1986 he opened his own repair shop and now employs 10 people.