10-year-old gives five minutes of emotional advice for $2
Need some emotional advice? 10-year-old Ciro Ortiz thinks he’s up to the task. Like a lot of kids his age, Ciro has had to put up with his fair share of bullying. But he’s learned to rise above it and now it doesn’t bother him – it’s more the bad feelings it gives him.
He figured that if he felt like that, so must other people. So Ciro set up a little stand in the New York subway to offer emotional support to commuters.
"I think I'm wise enough to give good advice!" he says. And his parents think so too.
Every Sunday for two hours, he listens as people tell him about their problems regarding work, relationships and life. And for a bargain $2, he offers five minutes of advice.
On a busy day, Ciro can earn around $50 – all of which he donates to helping kids at his school who can’t afford to buy lunch or snacks.
Before his first day, Ciro said he was very anxious about how people would accept him.
"I didn't know if people were going to stare or laugh at me," he says. But then they "saw that I was taking it seriously."
Soon enough, his ‘clients’ started coming in droves.
Pretty cute, huh?
Thanks for giving this thread a bump Banjo
.... otherwise I may have missed it
What a brilliant and enterprising boy this is 
Now that's the best thing I've read so far for this year. What a kid, wisdom beyond his years. Google it and have a listen to the way he speaks.