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Poll

How long you been cleaning have you been cleaning windows as a living, no-one else can see what you have voted.

Less than 6 months
4.2%
5 (4.2%)
Less than a year
5.9%
7 (5.9%)
Less than 2 years
5%
6 (5%)
Less than 3 years
6.7%
8 (6.7%)
Less than 5 years
10.1%
12 (10.1%)
Between 5 and 10 years
19.3%
23 (19.3%)
10+
18.5%
22 (18.5%)
15+
5.9%
7 (5.9%)
20+
24.4%
29 (24.4%)

Total Members Voted: 99

gewindows

Length 0f time
« on: October 02, 2010, 08:54:56 am »
How long have you been cleaning windows as a living, no-one else can see what you have voted.

Im curious as Ive never seen so many brand new window cleaners as opinionated as they seem to be on here recently.

Jack Wallace

  • Posts: 625
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2010, 09:02:14 am »
I dont need to keep my vote hidden. been in business for my self 8 years and worked for someone else for 3.

Does that give me the right to be opinionated?  ;D

Ian101

  • Posts: 7889
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2010, 09:03:24 am »
Started mid June this year but dont think myself as opiniated just learning from the sidelines with the odd throw in if I know what Im talking about  ;D

Ian101

  • Posts: 7889
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2010, 09:04:17 am »
oh and loving it too !

gewindows

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2010, 09:04:54 am »


Does that give me the right to be opinionated?  ;D


Of course it does, but not enough to have a valued opinion  ;D

Steve_c

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2010, 11:00:48 am »
Wfp less than two years and full time. Trad i started part time 2006 and yes i used a ladder, bucket on a belt. To be honest i was offered a job back in print by a mate who i did my apprenticeship with, who is now the works manager.  Now let me think, shift work hassle and above all we had to move. I didn't think about it i said thanks but no thanks. When i was part time i only had friends and neighbour's in my very small round and didn't expand beyond that. All it was to see if i could hack it and work outside in the winter as i have only worked inside. My business is growing and work wise i have never been happier. The BFG was and still is a great source off encouragement to me as a few times my chin was on the floor and guy just lifts you right up kicks you up the Arsenal and basically tells you how it is. Thanks Big Feller i owe you. (But not Lunch in bo's) ;)

Smudger

  • Posts: 13459
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2010, 11:40:03 am »
Just over the year as a full time self employed w/c.

engineering for over 25 yrs before that ( reduntant more times than i care to think about )
love being my own boss! - well thats what wifey tell me anyway  :P

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

bobby p

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2010, 12:10:10 pm »
personally could not give a monkeys on the number  years or not a persons been doing it .seems some reckon theyre FULL OF KNOWLEDGE  but theyre often Full of s/it   .  ;D


 

Paul Coleman

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2010, 01:05:16 pm »
It was 19 years yesterday.
I should have thrown a party  ;D

Tom White

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2010, 01:53:29 pm »
personally could not give a monkeys on the number  years or not a persons been doing it .seems some reckon theyre FULL OF KNOWLEDGE  but theyre often Full of s/it   .  ;D


 

I know exactly what you mean!

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2010, 01:59:51 pm »
20 years next April for myself, 2 years on and off before that.

I understand fully your reasons for asking!  ::)

CLEANCARE WC

  • Posts: 4454
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2010, 02:05:43 pm »
CANVASSED A FEW JOBS FOR MYSELF 20 YRS AGO WHEN I WAS 13!(MY OLDER BRO WAS A W CLEANER) TO DO WEEKENDS. LOOKING BACK ITS AMAZING ANYONE TOOK ME ON, PROBABLY COS I WAS WAY UNDERPRICED! HAD MY OWN MARKET STALL WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL THEN DID A FEW OTHER THINGS. STARTED WINDOW CLEANING AGAIN FULL TIME  FOR MYSELF IN 2001.
WE CLEAN BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT WITH WATER FED POLE WHEN WORKING AT HEIGHT.

gewindows

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2010, 04:34:20 pm »
personally could not give a monkeys on the number  years or not a persons been doing it .seems some reckon theyre FULL OF KNOWLEDGE  but theyre often Full of s/it   .  ;D


 


One swallow doesnt make a summer

 ;)

Klean07

  • Posts: 3244
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2010, 04:47:02 pm »
23 Years for me wfp last 3 years 1987 started. Lots of things have changed since then though like upvc windows instead of wooden/alluminum.
kkleanwindowcleaning.co.uk

s.w.c

  • Posts: 1174
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2010, 08:53:11 pm »
too long

Frankybadboy

  • Posts: 9024
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2010, 09:04:35 pm »
too long
thats cause you are so old. :P :P :P

s.w.c

  • Posts: 1174
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2010, 09:27:25 pm »
yea you might be right there, but at least i can look in the mirror an see i still look good for my age.

whats your excuse then :P :P :P

Paul-pp

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2010, 09:47:30 pm »
Less than six months - but have a vast amount of training, H&S, project design, production & workshop experience etc which has pushed me to seeing self employment as the only option. ;D

mikecam

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2010, 10:10:18 pm »
Im curious as Ive never seen so many brand new window cleaners as opinionated as they seem to be on here recently.
True. Maybe they've sussed their established competition is capable of no more than rubbing a rag on some glass and knocking for three quid and they have some ideas of thier own ?

CLEANCARE WC

  • Posts: 4454
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2010, 10:23:13 pm »
or maybe its because there are too many idiots bragging and telling people what we can earn.
WE CLEAN BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT WITH WATER FED POLE WHEN WORKING AT HEIGHT.