Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Cloverleaf on December 05, 2003, 11:53:32 pm
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A few times recently, my wifes new friends asked what does your husband do? She replys a carpet cleaner!
And the responce.... ohh! looking down :( (maybe he's subhuman). She was proud to say, but he earns good money :o
She came home last night to tell me this and I said to her,
how much are your friends earning £6 an hour and she said yes.......This gets my back up.
I used to be an injection moulding technician (plasiccs) quite a sought after job with plenty of potential and much more grey matter required for programing machines and robots with many years of experiance.
I now earn twice as much(atleast as I used to) have more spare time, have as many cups of coffee as I like and as many holidays as I like. But the best I enjoy my job, with no or very little pressure.
I said to my misses, ask your friends if they can earn £200+ in one day! ;D
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;D Be proud and loud your the man with the big stick
no foremans /managers . just doing a job that pays good.
mick
ps you cannot beat a good kip in the van go home tell the wife what a hard day you had! :o
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there is something seriously wrong with peoples values. my wifes a nurse, everyone has total respect for nurses.
Nobody can say that my job is anywhere near as important and difficult as hers, yet I earn more than double her wage, footballers earn 20grand a week for just kicking a ball.
no one will have any respect for carpet cleaners no matter how much we earn, its just not seen as a serious job.
but as long as you respect yourself, thats all that matters
Mike
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Mike, that was your second BEST ever post!!
Doh, forgot what your best one was. :-[ :-[ :-[
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Just say you own a small cleaning business and leave it at that.
Its true whay you say though, people do judge you by what you do.
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Hi
This question does pop up from time to time and I deliberately answer " I am a cleaner"
As you correctly say the faces drop and you are looked upon as the lowest of the low...Do I care...not a bit.
All that I have has been earned honestly and with a great deal of sweat
Derek
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I love this one I say i'm CC and the face changes :(.
when they say what did you do before that I say Bank Manager. What difference in their expression :o. Suddenly they are interested in what i do and why.
Gary
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A kip in the van? ;)
Had a few of these, realy annoying when the phone rings.
I remember when I was employed, if there was a chance to go out on a trip in the company car or van, everybody would hope they would be picked!
Such a luxury being a CARPET CLEANER ;D
John
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I was a Plumber 20 years ago, before getting into Carpet cleaning and I would never change my job for anything. At least if I get wet now , the water is warm and has no NASTY bits in it :-X Now I tell people that I run my own Carpet cleaning business and most people are okay but some ask how many people I employ ( to take it further >:() If they get too snotty, I just say that I do all the work myself so I can keep £200- £300 a day. That normally shuts them up ;). They dont know what I pay out for chemicals/van/machines/fuel/parking/tools/stationary/computers/printing/advertising and headache tablets :'(
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For my sins i used to be a driving instructor.
the cost of training, number of tests and exams and time taken to become a qualified instructor. the continued re testing and grading to stay qualified and all we got from most parents was "we can do that just as well" and "how much for a lesson?"
I'm used to people looking down at what i do, but know i work less hours a day, no evenings, no weekends and have lots more holidays. Oh yes and earn alot more!!
But who says money isnt everything :D
lets just stick together we know we are good and proud of what we do. who wants to be a commuter going to the same place and doing the very same thing every day
Nick
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Someone once said to me that money cannot buy you happiness.............................fair enough.
But I can be the best dressed misery in town ;D
I am proud of what I do and so are my family ::)
DO I CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF MY JOB :-/
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I just do NOT care a damm what people think about us CC's, bet they don't start work at 9.30am and are home and done before 1.30pm. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote "A few times recently, my wifes new friends asked what does your husband do? She replys a carpet cleaner!"
I would not go as far as calling these people friends >:( >:( >:(
I
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Hmmmm, some reaction from my first post!
Yea ok we can earn good money. It takes guts to start off and take the risk of becoming self employed.
It takes a person with enthusiasm, motivation, hard work and a grey matter to be sucsesfull.
Marketing that works (learned along the way), image, training, experiance and confidence all help to be sucsessfull.
This is something that many 9 to 5 people lack.
When I left my full time job my mates at work were saying, your lucky to get out of here.
I say, if you dont take the risk, now't will happen.
John
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I always say, I am in the cleaning business, but I really dont care what anyone thinks. I worked hard to build up a business from nothing as I am sure most of you all did.
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I once told a table full of merry "ex pats" who had been boasting about their boats and villa’s on a holiday in Tenerife when asked “and what is it that you do”, I said “Im a Tax Inspector”. They all leaped off their chairs, spilling their drinks and started hurling abuse.
I expected a reaction, but not quite that bad. It took the rest of the evening to convince them that I wasn’t and an awful lot of free drinks. However the subject of money or employment was never bought up again. I don’t think they were ever quite sure after that.
Perhaps not the brightest thing I ever did, but definitely a KODAK moment. ;D
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This hasa happened to me a couple of times, however, like Derek said "who cares"!
I work bloody hard for my money and I have a sh*$ load of customers who are happy with my results and I pay my taxes and live a nice life.
I worked as a sales rep for Hewlett Packard, after about 9 nines of crap and stress I really happy I left and do what I do now.