It's always about luck
It's prob the same for a lot of us, I been at it a little longer than some, but not as long as others, started cleaning windows wen I was 21, just had my second little girl and needed to get on the right rd, started off with a nation wide and was trained up by my cousin .......... First thought was am not sticking at this for long but as the months went by I got good and was quick, got promoted from van lad to driver in my own van

things was on the up haha, done this for about a year and started looking into commercial work of my own, so would squeeze his work ( 6 days ) into 4 days and got cracking on a local bookmakers ( Stanley racing ) picked 60 off these up and would clean windows & frames, tv's an surrounds and counter screens all done once a week at £6.50 signs were done monthly £ 8.00, this soon became 150 shops and other lines of enquiries were coming good, william hill then bought Stanley racing out and I ended up with more than 500 done fortnightly at £10 per clean £10 signage inc all external tiles
I don't have these no more and they now done by interserve with internal cleaning
I have always worked long crazy hours used to work til half 9 every night on the bookmakers doing most of Manchester all of Liverpool and now it's no different am just on different jobs doing different things.
Am 38 now an everything I have done It was for my girls growing up, there now 17 an 21 so there not much dependant on me ( well maybe a bit of financial help ) no more which is putting me at a cross roads going forward. I plan to carry on til am 45 and then I want to change careers and climate.
Mortgage is scheduled to be fin wen am 45 an am then guna have a good luck at what I want out of life. Been with me girl, well me wife now since I was 15 so we want to go explore the world of maybe just rake the beach some were hot together.
Sometimes guys you get out of it what you prepared to put in to it and some times you have to use the game to suit your life style.
For me work took over and ran my life and still does but I was ok with this as it provided me with money to run our house and family
Every one on here has the potential to achieve what ever you want in life, people often remind me of how well I have done for myself, and I always appreciate it but know that I have been very lucky with some of the contracts I have been able to get, especially my latest one
Good luck to all you and keep ya chin up, if ever ya feeling down put a post up and share ya problems, you be surprised how many others are feeling the same, some maybe a bit embarrassed to first post but fell exactly the same