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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 04:58:25 pm

Title: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 04:58:25 pm
nothing wrong with that at all!

ciu is great for new guys - wish i had a forum to use when we first started out ...

be very interesting to see if there was to be 'pro' section and new section - how many companies would be in the 'pro' section.
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Klean07 on April 07, 2011, 05:03:13 pm
I've been here 4 years but in my early days used Peters forum. Doesn't time fly?
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Llaaww on April 07, 2011, 05:05:30 pm
I have been hanging about for about four yrs, washin windows for a lot longer though
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Tom White on April 07, 2011, 05:19:38 pm
About 8, maybe 9 years here!  ;D
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: g newton on April 07, 2011, 05:27:12 pm
nothing wrong with that at all!

ciu is great for new guys - wish i had a forum to use when we first started out ...

be very interesting to see if there was to be 'pro' section and new section - how many companies would be in the 'pro' section.

what do you consider makes a pro in a unregulated industry where no qualifications are required !
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Mike_G on April 07, 2011, 05:39:30 pm
nothing wrong with that at all!

ciu is great for new guys - wish i had a forum to use when we first started out ...

be very interesting to see if there was to be 'pro' section and new section - how many companies would be in the 'pro' section.

Which category would you fall in to?
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 05:45:54 pm
nothing wrong with that at all!

ciu is great for new guys - wish i had a forum to use when we first started out ...

be very interesting to see if there was to be 'pro' section and new section - how many companies would be in the 'pro' section.

Which category would you fall in to?

pro  8)

cleaning windows over 12 years.

and have done work for a lot of big companies

mcds
burger king
b&q
punch pub
starbucks
boots
co op
thomas cook
david wilson homes - won awards on a few of these jobs
redrow homes
nhs - north bristol hospitals
tote betting
cheltenham race course
isis
birds eye walls
unilever
meb
hm prisons
tesco
safeway

i feel a pro is someone who knows there trade and does a good job for a good price
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: H2O TECH on April 07, 2011, 05:49:09 pm
A professional is anyone whos making money from what he or she is doing, weather its £1 or £100,000.

Amature- unpaid

The only differance with people who have been in it longer is Experiance.
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Mike_G on April 07, 2011, 05:50:00 pm
Won awards, really? Thats cool, what did you get?
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Mike_G on April 07, 2011, 05:51:26 pm
A professional is anyone whos making money from what he or she is doing, weather its £1 or £100,000.

Amature- unpaid

The only differance with people who have been in it longer is Experiance.

Thats true, so it's fair to say there are a lot of bad proffesional window cleaners out there!
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 05:52:24 pm
A professional is anyone whos making money from what he or she is doing, weather its £1 or £100,000.

Amature- unpaid

The only differance with people who have been in it longer is Experiance.

rubbish!

so a dodgy plumber with no safe gas skills or insurance etc - can charge someone money, get paid and then they are a pro?

after doing an unsafe job etc ....
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Mike_G on April 07, 2011, 05:55:29 pm
A professional is anyone whos making money from what he or she is doing, weather its £1 or £100,000.

Amature- unpaid

The only differance with people who have been in it longer is Experiance.

rubbish!

so a dodgy plumber with no safe gas skills or insurance etc - can charge someone money, get paid and then they are a pro?



after doing an unsafe job etc ....

Its not really rubbish, as a rule in sport, an amateur is somebody who does not get paid but a professional does the same job for money, so perhaps thats also the case with work, whatever job you do but before anyone says anything, volunteers dont count, because they just dont!
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 05:55:47 pm
Won awards, really? Thats cool, what did you get?

our cleaning & window cleaning was part of an award for david wilson new build site

something like nhbc award or something like that - few years back now ...
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: H2O TECH on April 07, 2011, 06:13:33 pm
you get good and bad professionals in all trades, look up the word professional in its true context, I am not saying weather its right , wrong or indifferent thats not the point.

Earning money is earning money, you have good professionals and bad professionals, the bad ones don't last, but until then they are still earning money.

Anyways just worry about what your doing, who cares whats the others are doing, thats your ego controling your mind and emotions.

Concentrate on your work and your own personal work goals, otherwise its a
Self-fulfilling prophecy looking to happen.

Amen
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: g newton on April 07, 2011, 06:27:05 pm
you get good and bad professionals in all trades, look up the word professional in its true context, I am not saying weather its right , wrong or indifferent thats not the point.

Earning money is earning money, you have good professionals and bad professionals, the bad ones don't last, but until then they are still earning money.

Anyways just worry about what your doing, who cares whats the others are doing, thats your ego controling your mind and emotions.

Concentrate on your work and your own personal work goals, otherwise its a
Self-fulfilling prophecy looking to happen.



f**k me thats deep

Amen
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Wc Solutions on April 07, 2011, 06:28:06 pm
you get good and bad professionals in all trades, look up the word professional in its true context, I am not saying weather its right , wrong or indifferent thats not the point.

Earning money is earning money, you have good professionals and bad professionals, the bad ones don't last, but until then they are still earning money.

Anyways just worry about what your doing, who cares whats the others are doing, thats your ego controling your mind and emotions.

Concentrate on your work and your own personal work goals, otherwise its a
Self-fulfilling prophecy looking to happen.



f**k me thats deep

Amen

did it hurt a lot  ::)
Title: Re: is ciu just mainly full of new guys now??
Post by: Tom White on April 07, 2011, 06:32:40 pm
thats your ego controling your mind and emotions.


Of course! 

We're nothing but egos covered in skin!
 ;D