After trailing around 17 local fast-food joints looking for a job, and being rejected by all of them, a Missouri teen decided not to give up and instead change his track. “It got pretty tiring,” Jonathan Bell, 17, told The Epoch Times. “So that’s when I decided to start my own thing.” Bell, a full-time student and senior at Parkview High School, said he always knew he had the spirit to work for himself in the future; however, he didn’t know that it would be before the age of 18. After being turned down by local businesses, the then-15-year-old knew he had something much coveted in the modern world—and he knew he could use it. “I’m part of Gen Z,” he said. “Growing up with technology and social media is something I’ve always been great at.” With some past experience in marketing, combined with educating himself in learning algorithms and how …