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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: EnglishDave on September 01, 2023, 03:46:37 pm

Title: Leaving the game
Post by: EnglishDave on September 01, 2023, 03:46:37 pm
Hi all, some may remember me in a previous incarnation as PINGU way back when I started wfp here in The Netherlands (2005) with a Andrew McCann Freedom trolley, fibreglass poles, Vikan truck brushes and garden hoses....Thank the gods for Alex Gardiner and his/their awesome products and innovations and of course the awesome Aworka software.

Window cleaning has been good to me and mine but have been offered a price for the business and now managed to get a job with an American company here in .NL with the normal perks of working a 9-5 (and home work).

Of course I will miss the freedom but here we start paying VAT@21% from the get go and being self employed here is getting harder and harder with the many other taxes and insurances you have to pay and the truth be known I am physically not upto it anymore.

Thanks to all those who helped me along the way with advice, tips and tricks, this forum really is a source of gold if you are willing to persist and dig for those nuggets.

A big thanks to all the Mods over the years that have tried to keep a sense normality and decency which at times has been a bit of a circus ;D.

So to all those I have known here best of luck to you all and for those starting best wishes and success.

Cheers Dave - Out.

Title: Re: Leaving the game
Post by: Spruce on September 01, 2023, 04:31:21 pm
Hi all, some may remember me in a previous incarnation as PINGU way back when I started wfp here in The Netherlands with a Andrew McCann Freedom trolley, fibreglass poles and Vikan truck brushes and garden hoses....Thank the gods for Alex Gardiner and his/their awesome products and innovations and of course the awesome Aworka software.

Window cleaning has been good to me and mine but have been offered a price for the business and now managed to get a job with an American company here in .NL with the normal perks of working a 9-5 (and home work).

Of course I will miss the freedom but here we start paying VAT@21% from the get go and being self employed here is getting harder and harder with the many other taxes and insurances you have to pay and the truth be known I am physically not upto it anymore.

Thanks to all those who helped me along the way with advice, tips and tricks, this forum really is a source of gold if you are willing to persist and dig for those nuggets.

A big thanks to all the Mods over the years that have tried to keep a sense normality and decency which at times has been a bit of a circus ;D.

So to all those I have known here best of luck to you all and for those starting best wishes and success.

Cheers Dave - Out.

We wish you all the best
Title: Re: Leaving the game
Post by: DJW on September 01, 2023, 05:59:30 pm
I remember Pingu, decent chap! Good luck!
Title: Re: Leaving the game
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 01, 2023, 06:17:51 pm
Great to hear all is going well, thanks for the kind words to everyone and good luck for the future.
Title: Re: Leaving the game
Post by: dazmond on September 03, 2023, 08:34:25 am
Good luck in the future Pingu.i hope I never get to a point that I have to work for someone else doing a 9-5 job.ive spent too many years self employed!(30 years)...

Title: Re: Leaving the game
Post by: dazmond on September 04, 2023, 07:41:05 pm
Hi all, some may remember me in a previous incarnation as PINGU way back when I started wfp here in The Netherlands (2005) with a Andrew McCann Freedom trolley, fibreglass poles, Vikan truck brushes and garden hoses....Thank the gods for Alex Gardiner and his/their awesome products and innovations and of course the awesome Aworka software.

Window cleaning has been good to me and mine but have been offered a price for the business and now managed to get a job with an American company here in .NL with the normal perks of working a 9-5 (and home work).

Of course I will miss the freedom but here we start paying VAT@21% from the get go and being self employed here is getting harder and harder with the many other taxes and insurances you have to pay and the truth be known I am physically not upto it anymore.

Thanks to all those who helped me along the way with advice, tips and tricks, this forum really is a source of gold if you are willing to persist and dig for those nuggets.

A big thanks to all the Mods over the years that have tried to keep a sense normality and decency which at times has been a bit of a circus ;D.

So to all those I have known here best of luck to you all and for those starting best wishes and success.

Cheers Dave - Out.

How old are you Dave?and how long have you been a window cleaner?