When i started window cleaning way back in 2002-3 i had prev held a well respected job in the city of london.
When my peers heard about me becoming a window cleaner; it did alienate me a bit from them as i no longer had anything in common as we all had similar careers at the time; and they found it strange.
And you can kind of see why, its like a doctor deciding to become a rag and bone man, you sort of take a double take..and wonder why; and it is amusing tbh.
Window cleaning is a good job, but even more so its a simple business model.
Nearly 16 years later; am i a bit sick and tired of window cleaning? Yes of course but any job for 16 years becomes tedious.
To be honest with you all, until Lee Pryor started with his plans to sell his house and invest the money into his business, and show us all what can be done even with a simple humble window cleaning business i was looking for a way out of window cleaning all togther as i hit a wall.
I have an engineering business with my father as well, and for a period of time i focused on the engineering business as a possible way out of window cleaning. Tell you what isnt fair, engineering companies struggle to turn over £25-40 per hour per job, as its so competitive, you really need a lot of work and machines running at the same time to make any profit, and then you got materials costs and breakages, and you break a tool in a mazak lathe, or a haas mill, its not £50 down the drain, or even £500 sometimes it's a couple of grand you have to swallow on the job to replace that tool and keep it going. Window cleaning i easily turn over £60 to £120 per hour on some jobs..now thats not fair is it??.
In conclusion, you are either a business owner or a worker. Im sticking with my goal to grow my window cleaning business, and eventually have some other fingers in pies aswell.
Btw i am less than 5k off my 60k target now..
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