Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: sunshine windows on August 07, 2016, 11:34:23 am
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Loads of posts on Facebook with guys working Saturday and Sunday.
I completely get this, if it's a contracted commercial job (not that I'd do it) but why on earth would you want to work weekends in a job that is so easy to make money Monday-Friday?
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Err more money ??? ;D
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Mon - fri is the bread n butter
Wknd work is for the additional hol, the 2nd car the extras in life
Perhaps
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Depends on your workload and if you have anything planned at the weekend. I worked half a day yesterday starting at seven. Well in excess of £200. I could have wasted my morning on here or watching crap TV. First job was a big commercial clean that has to be done at the weekend. Generally I try to keep the weekend clear.
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Loads of posts on Facebook with guys working Saturday and Sunday.
I completely get this, if it's a contracted commercial job (not that I'd do it) but why on earth would you want to work weekends in a job that is so easy to make money Monday-Friday?
Don't get it either. One of the positives of being self employed for me was that I'd be able to earn my crust in less than a week.
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I often work over the weekend then may take the rest of the week off.
All depends what the jobs are as I'm not just taking about cleaning windows.
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i work some saturdays only because of the ammount of new builds in my area, building new rounds every few weeks. id usually have a lazy day monday
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I'll do the odd Saturday morning on some offices I do, purely because the car park is empty and I can do the jobs in half the time.
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Do the odd Saturday and skip the odd Monday, as long as your not having to do a six or seven day week just to get by
then who cares.
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I either do Saturdays or have to go shopping with her indoors.
Soffits and gutters anyone? ;D
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I either do Saturdays or have to go shopping with her indoors.
Soffits and gutters anyone? ;D/quote]
;D ;D ;D
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
That's why I do a 4 hour day
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
Easy to say when you've got a few vans on the road and other people are earning your wage for you ::)roll
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
The great advantage of being self employed it give you the choice when you want to work and when you don't to suite your family commitments. It's nothing to do about being a lonely old sod you cheeky beggar ;D ;D
Anyhow just wait until you’re a grandparent yourself like me and when the grandchildren get on yer nerves you can always hand them back to their parents. Oh the joys of getting old :D
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Easy to say when you've got a few vans on the road and other people are earning your wage for you ::)roll
I was already earning plenty before taking the franchise route. I'm actually clearing a lot less now than I was before.
Also I'd never expect any of my franchisees to work the weekends, infact I actively discourage it.
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
::)roll ::)roll
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
This was in no way intended at you smurf. Although you are an old bugger! 😂
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Work mon -fri on windows if I have a day off due to weather or illness then catch up on sat morning or do a gutter job . Yes I do value my family time that's why I work 4 weeks then have a week off in caravan and soon hopefully will be in position to work 3 weeks the 2 weeks off .
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Loads of posts on Facebook with guys working Saturday and Sunday.
I completely get this, if it's a contracted commercial job (not that I'd do it) but why on earth would you want to work weekends in a job that is so easy to make money Monday-Friday?
different lifestyles?other commitments?really bad weather getting them behind schedule?
the beauty is you can do what you want,when you want in this game to a certain degree.
i very rarely work weekends anymore but i do work the odd saturday if im behind schedule sometimes,usually in the winter months.
some of us havent got much of a family and dont want anymore "family" time anyway.more time with our latest girlfriend/very *friendly* person/mistress maybe. :D
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I work seven days a week could just work 4 days but just love being out and about cleaning windows and chatting , if I go to sainsbury I am there for 2 hours talking to my customers lol... only me and the wife and she works 7 days so it suits me and her also not been abroad since 2007 just love working💪
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You'll often find Nick in the factory on Saturdays and Sunday's making parts for the kits or carbon fibre poles!!
Alex
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i dont mind working saturdays, i will be going on my 3rd holliday in sept, due to extra income. different when football team are on tv on a sat, especially mid day games. i will be at home then, prob go out sunday till 1 pm, id never work on a sunday after 2pm, people get togeather fpor sunday dinners, they dont want me popping my head in at them all sitting eating there roast.
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I work seven days a week could just work 4 days but just love being out and about cleaning windows and chatting , if I go to sainsbury I am there for 2 hours talking to my customers lol... only me and the wife and she works 7 days so it suits me and her also not been abroad since 2007 just love working
I know from experience being a workaholic will catch up with you health wise one day.
As you get older you will soon realise time is way too short so enjoy the time you have with your loved ones while you can.
At least take a blooming holiday would be a good start ???
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If you are having to work 6 or 7 days to earn more money then you need to have a serious look at your business and work out how you can earn that money in 5 days. Employing maye upping prices or go g into a new area of work.
I work mon-Fri. I may work the odd weekend if I was offered some nice coin but u would deco have a couple of days off the following week instead.
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For some it's not all about the money as they just love to be out working all hours godsend.
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I have always worked 7 days, even in school worked at a farm at the weekends and milk round in the week and run a garage serving petrol on the odd day off from school I used to wave at my mates going past in the afternoon😛 On the bus...
Also used too work nights in the army in a bakery down the road loved it..
Done me no harm I look 10 years younger than people my age and they have been sat on there arse for years lol
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As they saying goes "some live to work and others work to live "
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And some say ' stop looking down your nose at people who work weekends just because you don't have to'
I don't see how this is an issue for you when other people work
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I often work over the weekend then may take the rest of the week off.
All depends what the jobs are as I'm not just taking about cleaning windows.
So that's me out then Shrek ;D
There is a big difference to being flexible than being a workaholic working 7 days a week just because you love working.
Now to me that seems very odd as most will only work if they have to not because they love working ???
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I never look down upon anyone Shrek. If people want or need to work the weekends crack on. I just don't get it! Especially as loads rave about how much money they earn anyway.
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Yes, but they can earn even more if they wish. Cash in hand too.
I worked in the print industry for thirty years - you wouldn't believe the hours worked. Some of the guys were fighting to get in and already paying supertax!
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I get it, if you're a sad lonely old sod with no one else to talk to.
Weekends are family time and time spent doing something for yourselves.
I think by calling people who work weekends sad and lonely is a bit harsh that's all. Looking at some comments from people explaining themselves to you why they have to work weekends as if they're doing wrong. If someone wants to work 6 or 7 days a week, surely that's better than being a drain on the system , they might just be building a better life for themselves/ their families by paying their mortgage off or whatever
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Fair enough, perhaps the comment was a bit harsh!
Saw smurf today and he doesn't look too bad for his age to be fair 😂
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Yes, but they can earn even more if they wish. Cash in hand too.
I worked in the print industry for thirty years - you wouldn't believe the hours worked. Some of the guys were fighting to get in and already paying supertax!
Same here I worked in the CNC machining game and the hours I worked where unbelievable, even done permanent nightshift
for the better hourly rate, thing is I would be lying if I said it was for anything other than greed both for money and materialistic
possessions, it certainly wasn't for the love of work.
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My lads work Mon to Fri and most Saturdays, they love getting hours in (£££) ...who am I to stop them?
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And some folk have "past lives" to sort out financially.
Ex-wives, kids by more than one woman to support, money mismanagement, "habits" ...
So where as boring old (and lucky) me can get by on a modest screw, others might need the wrong side of a grand a week to keep up.
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I think I'm turning into my late father as he always uses to say how do the young ones cope these days.
It was bloody hard going but nowhere as bad as it is today so I can understand why most people need to work all hours godsend.