Young Entrepreneur Turns Struggling Business Into a Success

At only 22, Curtis English is already a portable sanitation veteran. He’s owned and operated Select Service Inc., a portable restroom company in Anamosa, Iowa, for four years.“When the other kids were sitting at home playing video games, I was mowing lawns, providing snow removal service and doing odd jobs,” he says. “It wasn’t that I was any better than my fellow students — I was just wired differently. At age 15 or 16 I visited Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and saw successful business owners driving top-of-the-line snowmobiles. I was jealous of them and wanted to be in the same position they