Thing is though, headline means nothing; I used to run a landscaping business and work in retail back in college, so I’d probably fit that description too. All it means is the guy knows how to actually work.
Although at 22, there isn’t really enough passage of time for useful management experience.
Yeah, the focus the landscaping part is weird. It seems more relevant to me that 5 years ago, he was in high school, rather than that he did landscaping.
Yeah, the headline means plenty... It means that he's breathtakingly unqualified to hold the position he's been given, just like you would have been as well. Though it sounds like you might actually have the sense to recognize that and (hopefully) wouldn't have taken such a position, thereby endangering the population at large.