Joshua White, owner of Bin Butlers of North Myrtle Beach, can make your trash cans and dumpsters smell like strawberries.
And he can blast away the dirt and grime and stains on your driveway, patios and fences with his high-pressure power washing and steam cleaning system.
"Bin Butlers will clean, sanitize and deodorize your trash bins inside and out with water pressure and eco-friendly chemicals that eliminate 100% of all bacteria, germs and odors," White promises on his website.
And if you like the service provided by this Coastal Carolina University business graduate and 26-year-old entrepreneur, you can thank the outrageous cost of attending law school for White being able to provide it.
White has the pedigree to be a lawyer. His aunt is the attorney general of Delaware; his uncle is a justice on the Delaware State Supreme Court.
And he has the resume of a law school candidate. He graduated from Coastal Carolina University in December 2023 with a business degree and a minor in pre-law. He was in student government and honor society; was president of the law fraternity; finished in the top 10% of his class.
He even worked for a law firm as a courier and for Horry County as a process server.
鈥淚 stayed in a lot; I studied hard. I padded my stats for law school,鈥 he said.
The only thing he lacked was the desire to go deeper into debt. Law school tuition, he said, costs $50,000 to $60,000 per year, and that doesn鈥檛 count living expenses for the three years he鈥檇 spend with his nose in the books.
He consulted his parents about his concerns. 鈥淢y parents were like, take a year off, figure it out," he said.
So instead of studying for the LSAT, he took a job at a bank, started researching business opportunities, and saw a video about a guy who went into business cleaning dumpsters and made a mint.
So White drew on his business acumen acquired at Coastal.
He did his homework. There鈥檚 only one other dumpster-cleaning business in Georgetown and Horry counties.
He developed his own website — — and manages his own social media accounts. He filed to operate as an LLC.
And he created his own logo and developed his own marketing campaign and business plan, calling on HOAs and POAs, sticking flyers under windshield wipers, and filming videos of himself at work with a GoPro camera.
Now, after five months in business, if you ask him what went wrong with his plan for a law career, he鈥檒l tell you what went right.
鈥淚 always wanted to be my own boss, make my own schedule,鈥 said White, who offers low prices and contracts for monthly, bi-weekly or weekly cleanings. He鈥檒l show up after your trash is picked up and clean those nasty cans before you roll them back into the garage.
"Coastal is a great business school. It definitely helped me,鈥 he said, citing lessons learned in class, and during real-world stints as a union welder and banker, for his success. As his business grows, he plans to expand, adding additional portable power washing units and employees.
He said too few of his fellow business school graduates choose to open a small business, opting instead for low-risk jobs with established companies.
鈥淎 lot of my friends are business majors, but not many of them go the entrepreneurial route,鈥 he said. "They all think you have to work for the big guy.鈥
He said he has no regrets.
"I鈥檓 making the same amount of money now as a lawyer does coming out of school, and I鈥檓 not going a quarter-of-a-million dollars into debt," he said.
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