[Positivity]

I'm on my 4th time starting a round.
It's not as easy as it was 20 years ago.
Too many windies around, too many redundancy start ups.
I think you'll find the successful ones have one thing in common.
Self- confidence and self-belief.
After working in an office for 20 years this attitude tends to be worked out of you by the "system".
If you lack confidence tend to be shy, timid, or think things through too much.
Go out and knock doors and ask if people want a window cleaner.
You don't have to buy any gear, you don't have to clean any windows, you don't need any leaflets or transport.
After a week or so you will know whether or not to go ahead.

[sean mcc]

I'm on my 4th time starting a round.
It's not as easy as it was 20 years ago.
Too many windies around, too many redundancy start ups.
I think you'll find the successful ones have one thing in common.
Self- confidence and self-belief.
After working in an office for 20 years this attitude tends to be worked out of you by the "system".
If you lack confidence tend to be shy, timid, or think things through too much.
Go out and knock doors and ask if people want a window cleaner.
You don't have to buy any gear, you don't have to clean any windows, you don't need any leaflets or transport.
After a week or so you will know whether or not to go ahead.

Agree

[DG Cleaning]

add my tenpenneth- just buy ladders and start slowly without frittering money away on gear you might get rooked ,you will get work on ladders fairly easily and get fit as a fiddle to boot .    

 most on the forum are wfp but out on the street the Majority of windies are still on ladders  and i recommend it as a way of life

Dont do too much reading but do start as soon as you possibly can is my tip

Welcome to 1970  

Majority of window cleaners are certainly not still on ladders, thats for sure.

They are round here, its very rare to see wfp I haven't come across a custie who's ever seen it yet

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

carpet cleaning im telling ya 

[AuRavelling79]

Halfdaylee may apologise to robertphil but in 2013 with wfp equipment so readily available then for him to recommend to a father of three that he start on ladders is very bad advice indeed.  

Not a season goes by without the death or maiming of some window cleaner on ladders being reported on here. And still the "I'm safe, I've done this X years, it won't happen to me!" mentality of some gets posted.

In this day and age it is better not to be a window cleaner than to start up trad. Unthought through foolishness does not begin to describe it.

[BVC]

Stay in the office its dry and warm

 

[Halfadaylee]

Halfdaylee may apologise to robertphil but in 2013 with wfp equipment so readily available then for him to recommend to a father of three that he start on ladders is very bad advice indeed.  

Not a season goes by without the death or maiming of some window cleaner on ladders being reported on here. And still the "I'm safe, I've done this X years, it won't happen to me!" mentality of some gets posted.

In this day and age it is better not to be a window cleaner than to start up trad. Unthought through foolishness does not begin to describe it.

It is his choice though you cant take that away, my apology was for failing to remember I started this way and some guys only work this way.
Every day people have car accidents, but we still drive. It is a calculated risk.
I never give bad advice 
Art