Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bad trippy on March 17, 2011, 09:32:27 am
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As in title, what do you miss about your job/jobs before you became a shiner?
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i don't miss my last job i hated it i was a bus driver and because most bus drivers have attitude issues the public think your all the same, i used to hate fri/sat nights total nightmare nothing but a pain in the ass :-[
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I couldn't do that for a living EWC, all them orrible chavs ;D I'd be out of a job in a day for filling the bus with oiks and driving it off a cliff ;D
The grass is always greener as they say. I don't ever want to see the inside of an office job again, horrible places full of twisted people looking to put each other down.
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i miss regular good pay, holiday pay. working with others (its boring at times working on my own). I also enjoyed the work i did (most of the time) it was on construction sites. But i do not miss working away!
Infact i am starting to get bored sensless of window cleaning, very very unmotovated, I am lucky if i can be arsed to do 2 weeks work in total a month. Each week i say i am going to hit it this week, But it just dont happen :-[
They say some people are not made to be self employed and i am begining to think i am one of them, But the hours suit my childcare needs and pays ok for the few hours i do :-\
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100k a year after tax. :(
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100k a year after tax. :(
Nice, but were you happier then or now? I'll be giving up a good salary (not 100k ;D) but for me the money is the last thing on my mind at the moment.
Being able to come home after a hard day's work and be happy with my day is worth way more than 100k pa if you could even put a price on it that is.
I'm just lucky that I have the chance and the choice.
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used to work in a factory, i've never missed the work but i do miss the banter that a load of blokes can muster up.
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As in title, what do you miss about your job/jobs before you became a shiner?
I was a Staff Sergeant in a Warrant Officer's post, and I miss being able to spend the majority of my time looking good, but not doing very much, and being quite well paid for the privilege.
Now I actually have to work for a living; sometimes anyway! ;D
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As in title, what do you miss about your job/jobs before you became a shiner?
Now I actually have to work for a living; sometimes anyway! ;D
Not today ;D ;D
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Don't miss anything. No nights. no double days, no back to work interviews,no disputes, no rubbish managers who have never put ink on paper telling you to work faster, no stress related illness ,no more looking over your shoulder to see if your have a job next week, no more working in a press room with no windows. The only thing i miss is my work mates. Who after redundancy none are working in the doom of print.
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As in title, what do you miss about your job/jobs before you became a shiner?
Now I actually have to work for a living; sometimes anyway! ;D
Not today ;D ;D
Car's broken down this morning. It's good though, since we've decided to get a van; it's the push we needed to pull our finger out.
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I always loved truck driving to other countries. The last job I had was Germany to UK. I loved being my own boss regarding working hours and where I parked up at the end of the day. Had all the little comforts TV, DVD,fridge, etc etc. Every week was something new.
Some really good mates who used to meet up sometimes at different places/Countries. Watched Eddie Stobart series awhile back, That's nothing like reality. They would struggle in a proper job!!
International driving is totally enjoyable. Running between Birmingham and Wigan every day or crap like that would drive me nuts.
This window malarky is just better money and less hours, so more free time. Love that too. ;D
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was a mechanic,i miss the feeling of a job well done after shoehorning a new engine into a car and hear it burst into life .
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yes i miss the european .... sometimes driving nearly 20 years, driving all over the place. but how the roads are now im glad i jacked it in.
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The very last job I had before window cleaning was OK. In some ways, it prepared me for being self-employed. I was working (PAYE) for an advertising company in Lancashire. I was covering the southeast. As you can imagine, I rarely saw a governor - though he did turn up twice (in a year) out of the blue so it could happen at any time. I was even allowed to make up my own work schedule after a while as well. So long as I visited all the supermarkets on the list on a 3 weekly rota (give or take a day) they were fine. I had to phone in at the end of each day to exchange messages. I just had to move adverts around on the boards, repair the boards if there was any damage to leaflet dispensers etc., and occasionally talk to a supermarket manager in a way that made him/her feel important. The hire van they supplied I could have for my own use. They paid all expenses - such as petrol - and re-imbursed me by cheque every week. Once I got to know my way around, I just built the job into my lifestyle. I would stop in some beautiful countryside places in Kent, maybe go strawberry picking, and most days were pretty easy. The pay wasn't great but it didn't need to be because I had no debts or commitments back then. I guess that going self-employed was a natural progression after that job folded.
The jobs I had before that were pretty naff, with one notable exception. Again, I was out on the road doing low pressure multi drop (a lot more driving than dropping).
Even when I worked in the print I chose to work on a machine where I could work on my own so I suppose there is a pattern here ;D
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company car,and a big pay packet :P :P
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I was a cook in the Merchant Navy, working for the RFA. I loved the travel, the pay wasn't bad, especially considering everything was taken care of on board the ship and my sun tan always looked good ;D
I only left to be with my family; the wife had just given birth to our eldest and being away for six months at a time, even in places like Australia and the Caribbean, didn't appeal any more.
Once the first Irac war was over I came home and stayed home. ;D
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I'm yet to experience a former job, as I set this company up 2 weeks after I left school 10 long years ago so this is my one and only job a will be for a very long time ;D
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F**k ALL and i mean F**K ALL
My old job stressed my big time in charge off a warehouse full of men and ladies the first year and half was great everything getting done all orders were picked and packed two days ahead, everyone was working for me and then.
The lady above me decide she did not like this and started to make my working life twice as hard so it made her look good when she had to sort thing out she was turning staff against me so the work slowed down messed with orders after another year i decide to stand down and by this point i was a wreck did not enjoy anything even my family life they had driven me down that much the best thing ever in my working life was when we were told that we were all getting laid off , she was crying and i was loving it could not wait to get out of that place. And the best thing is i clean her windows and few near her and guess what she pays more than everyone else ;D
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nothing wat so ever never liked the control of the managers
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F**k ALL and i mean F**K ALL
My old job stressed my big time in charge off a warehouse full of men and ladies the first year and half was great everything getting done all orders were picked and packed two days ahead, everyone was working for me and then.
The lady above me decide she did not like this and started to make my working life twice as hard so it made her look good when she had to sort thing out she was turning staff against me so the work slowed down messed with orders after another year i decide to stand down and by this point i was a wreck did not enjoy anything even my family life they had driven me down that much the best thing ever in my working life was when we were told that we were all getting laid off , she was crying and i was loving it could not wait to get out of that place. And the best thing is i clean her windows and few near her and guess what she pays more than everyone else ;D
Nice one ;D
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I'm yet to experience a former job, as I set this company up 2 weeks after I left school 10 long years ago so this is my one and only job a will be for a very long time ;D
Ten LONG years ago you left school and I was 33; now I feel very old :-\
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having a laugh with workmates!used to work for a landscaping company.loved going all over the north west!!
early starts (730am)and late finishes(6pm)and crap money were the downsides!
window cleaning is flexible,less hours to work to get a half decent income.no boss!!!very low stress!!perfect for me!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
dazmond
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i miss nothing, well maybe some company now and then but ive got me audio books and radio in my ear most days
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I miss my secretary bring me cups of coffee......now I just get customers to do it !!
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I miss being able to totally switch off , and the money going straight in your account
Dont miss being another number, earning crap money, and being expected to work your b******s off all the time for little or no recognition
My last job is no good now anyway, i did door to door canvassing, last year my bro in law went back to it for a week, and quit within a few days, said its to hard now, but then he has been wc for a few years to so probably hated going back to work for someone!
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My last job was for a building services company based in the City of London. I was the van driver, so I delivered materials to the various sites, mostly in London itself.
The job itself was a doddle. Perhaps too easy. The company only had one contract, and when it lost it, it folded.
The tradesmen in the company were good guys and I got on well with all of them.
I enjoyed the driving so much, I applied to do the knowledge to become a cabbie. Passed the interview, but by then I had become a shiner and never looked back.
John.
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Only a couple of things I miss from my last job and that would be being sat in a cafe at about 8 am waiting for my phone to ring to release vehicles I had clamped earlier in the morning. And no I wasn't a wheelclamper I was a bailiff collecting council tax and business rates. I did do parking fines as well but not very often. It was quite funny sometimes when we all met up for breakfast on Mondays and compared death threats that were on our phones from the weekend!
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Only thing I miss is the cycle ride to work and paid holidays/sick.
Don't miss the workmates that much, most were wind up merchants anyway, the rest would squabble over overtime and try and live in the place. Managers were mostly jumped up tossers, union reps were bent by the management particularly the national representatives. Glad to get away from the madness of it all and the lousy hours to be honest.
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The stress.
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The money (it was alot), the nights away on an expenses financed jolly with no questions asked.
But most of all, my secretary, she was gorgeous and up for anything ;D
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Partying with Premiership footballers, hanging out with footballers feeling important, having inside knowledge of football/clubs/transfers etc, getting VIP in clubs, free meals, loads of jollys of so many descriptions...
...don't miss not working Saturdays, Bank Holidays, being my employers "bitch", always having to play a suck up.
Hmm...actually it wasn't THAT bad...!!
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Big fatZERO for me
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not a lot really i used to work for a window cleaning company..the only regret i have is that i wish i left the job 6 years earlier :D
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100k a year after tax. :(
Nice, but were you happier then or now? I'll be giving up a good salary (not 100k ;D) but for me the money is the last thing on my mind at the moment.
Being able to come home after a hard day's work and be happy with my day is worth way more than 100k pa if you could even put a price on it that is.
I'm just lucky that I have the chance and the choice.
oh belive i was happier then may be more stressed and prob led to me having a spine opp but i would swop anyday rather than cleaning
other peoples sh#t.
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used to be a group buyer for a toyota dealer.
job was mainly travelling all over the country attending auctions buying cars / vans
drove about 50000 miles a year and stayed in travel lodges.
all expenses paid and left to do my own thing.
sounds great job dont it .... but very very boring and couldnt please any of the sales managers as either wrong colour / spec / miles etc.
oh and great pay as well.
do i miss it ... nope cant beat being own boss and building a sucessful window cleaning business :)
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in september i will have been doin this job 9 years. it is all i have ever done. i dont feel i have missed out on anything. working under anyone and being told what to do has never appealed to me
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I miss the ladders and exercise.
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The prestige that went with being a milk monitor.
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The prestige that went with being a milk monitor.
bet you were a prefect as well :D
Still got the badge ;).
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The prestige that went with being a milk monitor.
bet you were a prefect as well :D
Still got the badge ;).
I never got they jobs, milk monitor, door monitor nothing I guess I wasn't trusted enough :'(
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The prestige that went with being a milk monitor.
bet you were a prefect as well :D
Still got the badge ;).
I never got they jobs, milk monitor, door monitor nothing I guess I wasn't trusted enough :'(
Stu, you`re too honest; lie; it`s only the internet ;D.
But I was a prefect, honest. It didn`t mean much though and I sold my prefect badge along with all my other medals.
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The prestige that went with being a milk monitor.
bet you were a prefect as well :D
Still got the badge ;).
I never got they jobs, milk monitor, door monitor nothing I guess I wasn't trusted enough :'(
Stu, you`re too honest; lie; it`s only the internet ;D.
But I was a prefect, honest. It didn`t mean much though and I sold my prefect badge along with all my other medals.
I had diddly squat chance of being a prefect ;D I got suspended for solvent abuse :'(
but yes it is the internet so yeahhh I was a nit checker monitor ;D remember them, I hated it, nurse dragging a razor sharp comb through your hair :'(
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having a laugh with workmates!used to work for a landscaping company.loved going all over the north west!!
early starts (730am)and late finishes(6pm)and crap money were the downsides!
window cleaning is flexible,less hours to work to get a half decent income.no boss!!!very low stress!!perfect for me!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
dazmond
Which landscaping firm daz?
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I was in the print dont miss the night work, the noise, dust, getting covered in ink, 4 sometimes 6 hour travelling a day ( same time as my working day now) working bank holidays christmas etc
do miss bupa, pay day, the lads
really enjoying life now though