Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MNWC on October 08, 2006, 05:46:47 pm
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Heres a good topic.
What job did you used to do before window cleaning ??
Mine was a welder for 16 years and a window cleaner for 5 wfp for 1
Should have done it years ago what a great job I LOVE IT .
Marcus
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;Dgutters
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dont worry im footing ;D
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I'm a chef by trade, working on ships for the RFA. Come out in 1991, after visiting the Gulf for a bit of fistycuffs with Irac and some damm good fishing!!
Love cooking, but this earns me more.
Miss the travelling, but this is better for the family too. Less divorces in window cleaning ............ I'm guessing ???
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I was an IT Contractor for 10 years.
Got bored of sitting in an office slumped in front of a computer all day!
Andy
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Inland Revenue
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international banks
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Inland Revenue
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
A MOLE. ???
Macc
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International Hitman.
:D
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International Hitman.
How much to take out The Bear? ;D
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I'd do it for the love of the sport!! ;D ;D ;D :D
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Hired ;)
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Army, IT Security....then left and taught diving in Thailand for 2 years, now in Holland happily starting my new life as a wfp w/c and enjoying the freedom(trolley).
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Porn star.
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Was a local government officer for 22 years till last September.
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Self employed since 17. Fish and chips, Property, chimney sweep, postman, Steel Mill, Milkman, First and last job- window cleaner :)
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Carpenter
earning top notch money, i got bored and wanted a change
bored of window cleaning now though ::) ::)
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Warehouse supervisor and fork lift driver.zzzzzzzzzzzzzz ::)
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actor and singer prob know me as one of the brat pack ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Senior manager and company trouble shooter or hatchet man more commonly known.
Worked for one of the highstreet big boys.
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Doorman at Bobby,s in Las Americas packed in after 2 years as i was going deaf through listening to the boom boom that the nutters dance to, came back and drove trucks all over europe for a bit and the rest is history 8)
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Boatbuilder, Window cleaner, Milkman, and Window cleaner
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My first job was a week in wises bakery, then computer training for 2 years with work placements in accounts departments. After finishing the 2 year course i got offered a permanent position in Rover and worked as a press operator and spot welder for 11 years.
Took Voluntary redundancy 2 years ago and temped around for a while, B&Q, Collecting sanitary bins for a day was completely gross. Then worked in facilities in a Network Rail building, left there to work for Wilson Tools. Got fed up of the 11.30am-7.30 shift so went to work for an insulation firm.
Finally left the insulation firm to work for a local window cleaner and got P****d off with him messing me around so decided to go it alone and i'm loving every minute of it.
Jesus, with the amount of jobs i've had recently i'd better make sure i stick with this cause i reckon i'd be pretty much unemployable with my track record. ;D
Lance
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Well where do I start?
Im only 22 but I bet I've had more jobs than most of you :-[
Green keeper, farm work, fish factory, porter, assistant to an engineer, worked for the body shop :-X, Stockroom assistant, part time cleaner for OCS, night shift worker for menzies (newspaper despatch), parcel delivery driver, car cleaner, joiners assistant, back to fish factory, kitchen fitter,
Now Window Cleaner & I'm as happy as a pig In sh*t.
I just could not settle In any job and I didn't like taking orders and working with lemmings. I have never been so happy as I am now. Come & go as I please & earn as little as I want or as much as I can.
What more can anyone ask for?
Matthew
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Graphic Design, Buy and sell used cars (part-time), Promoter of club nights, Limousine Operator, Car Valeting, Window Cleaning
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PRO D J CALLED SCREWLOOSE DISCO ;D
GAZA
EARNED GOOD money but wont tell how much in case BEARS a mole ;)
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International Hitman.
How much to take out The Bear? ;D
Found JM123's old web page.
http://www.hitman.com.au/
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nice one ;D
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Or was it this one.
http://hitman.us/
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Or was it this one.
http://hitman.us/
;D ;D ;D ;D quality!
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . .
Apprentice chef in famous big hotel, was a bit of a naughty boy and got my transfer to an even bigger and more famous hotel knocked back, then did "catering" in two hospitals and decided to pack in cooking!
Started casual for a car hire company - supposed to be a fortnight, that ended up as 6 months and then I was on the office side for two years in Edinburgh and another two in Inverness. That's where I learned that once the top was off a bottle of spirits, it stayed off, and how to disguise the fact you had a screaming hangover when you were at work the next day.
From there I went into forklift hire in Stirling - first on the hire desk and then they put me through sales training and out on the road.
My ex-boss from the forklift sales asked me to join him back in Edinburgh and I was selling off-site storage to cramped offices. Someone I sort of knew was cleaning the windows when I was "in" one day, and said if I ever fancied it, to give him a ring. Some time later the boss thought that he and his son could do my job between them and I was rather handsomely paid off.
That pay-off got me set up in window cleaning twenty three years ago and it's been downhill ever since ;)
Oh, and the guy that I served a halfday apprenticeship with ended up working for me a couple of years ago!
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Used to be a store manager for Staples, the office supplies and stationary people. Saw the light, got out of retail, thank god ( not that I believe in him). Have also managed to convince another Staples manager to become a window cleaner...reckon I know about 10 more store managers I can convert!!
Retail is dead
Long live window cleaners !!!
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Shelf stacker,painter and decorator,door fitter,labourer and menzies(dayshift,early morning shift,twilight shift and nightshift) now in the best job i have ever had.
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plasterers labourer,brickys labourer, roadworker,
fence erector ,toolsetter,warehouse work,bar work in spain,boat and window cleaning in south of france,rentboy but im too ugly and ended up in debt and now window cleaning
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now in the best job i have ever had.
Ooops - forgot about that bit, and pimping rentboys :-*
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Quality Systems Auditor for ADC (medical devices company) bored stupid sat behing a desk all day! - much happier now
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I worked in a Kebab Shop for a few months, then joined the army at age 16. I left the army four years ago, as a Staff Sergeant, after 17 years service and became a window cleaner.
Looking at the weather outside, I wish I was back in a nice comfy office!
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fishmonger, got out though, something more glamourous than gutting fish, so i chose w/c think i made the right decision.
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Spent 5 years at colleague (did'nt learn to spell) learning to be a welder, then become a window cleaner, i think windowcleaning is a life stlye and it suites me loads of time off.
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Window cleaning since I was 14, will be 40 this month:( Bored to effing death of it.
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Giggolo ;)
JohnL
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post office, Bookies, UPVC industry (office manager, then Sales & Markrting Manager), Office work for a rewind company, biscuit factory (worst 3 months of my life but I needed the dosh) but all of these were jobs between self employment. Became self employed at 19 yrs old.
Now run 2 businesses. Happy? Nope..........but its better than doing it for someone else.
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International Man Of Mystery