[Simon Moat]

Spoken to a few CC's recently, what are your thought's on our profession, is it a 'lazy person's' lifestyle, earning above average national wage for third less working hours, or is it passion to be a great cleaner?   For me it's all about the money, many clients say to me 'you must get great job satisfaction seeing the difference in the carpet', when really I get great satisfaction in seeing the difference in the bank balance.

This line of work has been very kind to me, but not something I live and breath, who can honestly, really honestly, say that they like sucking shizzle out of carpets?

[Mike Halliday]

For me its mainly about the money, my wife ask me when i come home "had a good day" my answer is solely based on how much money I've earned, but Thats not to say i don't enjoy the job

The real test is.... if you won the lottery and did'nt need to work, but needed something to keep you busy what would you be doing? I would design & build TMs & run a carpet cleaning business

[Andrew@Approved Carpet Cleaning]

for me, a bit of both.
Yes the money is good, sometimes very good, sometimes its bloomin brilliant. But I wouldnt be able to do it if I didnt have a passion for CC'ing  beacuse then I wouldnt be able to enjoy the money anyway. Just saying....

[Teddycare]

I agree with Mike, yes first the money, but then the satisfaction of a job well done if you don't get that satisfaction you shouldn't charge the customer because you obviously haven't done your best.

The other reason I do this job is the lifestyle it allows me to live comfortably, I would never say that I was an educated man in fact I used to view School as a complete waste of space, a bit like the teachers thought of me, so I would never become a professional doctor dentist solicitor or the like, but carpet cleaning has bought me close to the sort of lifestyle that the teachers pets in the a stream probably achieved.

[derek west]

hate cleaning clean carpets, bores the cwap out of me, the dirtier the better i say, thats when i get a real buzz from the job.
If i was offered an easy job for the same money i'd turn it down.

so from that i would say i do it for the job.

yet if i won the lottery i wouldn't clean carpets as i have other idea's i'd also love to do so from that i guess i must do it for the money.

talk about confused.  

final answer is.......... Ive no idea why i do it but  i love my life style.

[Darren O]

Been going 8 years and still love cleaning carpets its a lot easier than window cleaning and far better money per hour.

[james roffey]

Been going 8 years and still love cleaning carpets its a lot easier than window cleaning and far better money per hour.

I love the freedom the job gives me and not having to work evenings, the money is good when i am working and i enjoy the social side of carpet cleaning meeting interesting and nice people who appreciate a job well done, also being in control of your own destiny makes a huge difference to my stress levels.
The downside are the quite periods when the phone doesn't ring which happens less and less now.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Money that it creates allows me to do the things I want to do, it would have to be a very exciting job for me to work for less money (not that I have any money anyway)

Shaun

[Shaun_Ashmore]

To add, my mate is a train driver and gets paid IMO very well he also gets holiday pay, sick pay and a pension as well as life insurance and heavens forbid redundancy all for 39 hours, we on the other hand have to work realistically on a date rate ok a good day rate but if you feel poorly you have still got commitments to meet you can't ring in sick and expect to get paid.

Easy life? When you add it all up all we are getting is our money up front when it comes to illness holidays pension rest and relaxation even going out on a jolly the rail driver wins hands down.

Shaun

[Paul McHugh]

Hey I would like some of what you all seem to be reasonably easily getting and I'm not!!!
some a that thermoneyyyyy

[Carpet2Clean]

I use to be a lorry driver...Very very long days

Missed my oldest girl grow up..I now love carpet cleaning, now have a better life style
for shorter hours.



Richard

[M.Acorn]

Beats being a chef hands down ! Although I do sometimes miss the buzz of finishing a busy sat evening service,but don't miss getting home at 1.30 am or the wages.
Love the time I get to do whatever I want,although at the moment it's a struggle as work is pretty dead.
Don't think I could ever not work for myself now.

[Neil Jones]

Same as everyone else really, the money, in particular Mikes comment, i'm usually happier at the end of the day the more i've earned. I enjoy improving my business, upgrading bits and bobs, learning new things but there is no way I would say i'm passionate about carpet cleaning or cleaning.

My passion is animals, hence the degree in Zoology, i'm going to an open day on Wednesday to look at doing a masters, then move to Australia and get a job where every day I wake up and love what i'm doing. I have been saying this since I was 18, i'm now 28 and i'm guessing in ten years when this question is asked again i'll still be carpet cleaning. Why...... because taking a massive wage cut and selling something i have put so much effort into is what is stopping me.

[wynne jones]

When people say they do it for the money what they really mean is the amount of time and effort expended for a certain amount of money to have a reasonable living. If we were totally money motivated either you would be in something else or running staff, vans, have premises etc. And most don't.

[bennymon]

I prefer carpet cleaning to any previous jobs I've done it has allowed me to watch and continue to watch my children grow up . I've seen a lot of family members not live to the age they should so when we have money we enjoy it.if I had a lotto win I would never clean another carpet . I would spend plenty of time in Vegas or Disney .i like to bet on football and have made 5k profit in the last year I suppose a lotto win would take that pleasure away as I wouldn't need the money lol del

[Carpet2Clean]

Life to short

Lost my wife mum & my mum to cancer a few years ago




Richard

[Jim_77]

It's been below freezing round here all day, horizontal snow blowing a blizzard outside for most of it too.

Half way through this lounge carpet in a rather nice house, I'm wiping the sweat off my brow and cursing because she's got the bloomin heating turned up so high.  I stopped wanding for a second to take a sip of the fresh coffee she'd just brought out to me, and just happened to be next to the window.... 3 feet away from the poor b*stard on the other side of it, freezing his nuts off trying to clean it.

I smiled smugly to him, took another sip of coffee and the heat didn't really bother me much after that

I leave home in the morning after the rush hour dies down, usually avoid the school run rush hour too, and still manage to get out with the dogs with a bit of light left during the darkest months.  Not a bad life really.  I think that poor old windie might still be frozen to the rungs of his ladder outside that house.

[clinton]

Its not a bad life we have then reading some of the above posts.

Its all about fitting your free time with carpet cleaning

[PaulKing]

same as mike, but if I won the lottery, I'd be off like a shot.

[garyfindlay]

I miss the banter, and pranks of being on a production line. It can be lonely sometimes, in me van, but no long 12 hour shifts, and working most weekends.