Window cleaning

« **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2006, 08:56:00 pm »

I have 2 City & Guilds, But you can keep them,The best move I ever made was to become a WINDOW CLEANER and yes I am shouting it

« **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:14:22 pm »

some days i love it other days can't bear the sight of a window :

99% i am happy

« **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:19:11 pm »

With me its definitely collecting that does my head in

« **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:19:38 pm »

you wont believe it but i actually enjoy window cleaning

« **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:23:19 pm »

How long have you been doing it?

« **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:27:05 pm »

no long i started in August this year working for my cousin!!

« **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:27:49 pm »

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With me its definitely collecting that does my head in

Leave them SAE then you have no collecting.

Paul

« **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:36:48 pm »

love it

im the boss

brett

« **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2006, 10:47:07 pm »

22yrs and loved every minute.

Still have one customer that I picked up the first day.

Roy

« **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2006, 11:33:21 pm »

3 years i love it most days

« **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2006, 11:59:37 pm »

worked continental shifts in a steel works before, 12 hour shifts, 3 weekends out of four worked, nights the lot. did it for 14 years and hated it.
window cleaning was the best move i ever made + when you are employed the government take most of your money anyway!

« **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2006, 12:22:06 am »

defo the best thing ive ever done!! how else can you make a lot of money, plus meet new people and be in the fresh air. i dunno but done lots of different type sof work in my time but w'cing is the best without a doubt.

« **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2006, 05:09:02 am »

Definitely the best job I've ever had and I've had some fairly OK ones.
I can earn decent full time money for part time hours (if I choose to do it that way) and, within reason, I can choose my work hours. The act of cleaning the glass is pretty academic when compared to the relative freedom I have.

« **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2006, 03:40:19 pm »

Quote from: S_RICHARDSON on November 13, 2006, 10:27:05 pm

no long i started in August this year working for my cousin!!

Do I know you? Do you work in Caldicot?

I'm Tosh, the Geordie-Jap window cleaner!

Quote from: Roy Harding on November 13, 2006, 10:47:07 pm

Still have one customer that I picked up the first day.

Roy

Roy, what happened to the rest of your first day customers? Did old age get them in the end?

« **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2006, 04:06:47 pm »

Quote from: Roy Harding on November 13, 2006, 10:47:07 pm

Still have one customer that I picked up the first day.

Roy

Roy, what happened to the rest of your first day customers? Did old age get them in the end?

Tosh they run out of monney and had to go in to a hostel.

Roy

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« **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2006, 04:22:14 pm »

It'll do for now.
Best money I've made, but there's better out there.
Maybe another 2 years, maybe another 5 or more...

Depends how long it takes for me to come up with an idea to make me rich.
I'm confident I will one day though.

« **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2006, 04:51:25 pm »

For me it is a case of thank god for WFP, I was at the point of jacking it all in, was so hacked off with Window cleaning.
I love it now, big increase in income and I'm less tired at the end of the day.

Ian

« **Reply #18 on:** November 14, 2006, 04:55:04 pm »

Ian do you fancy a bit of a party if we make 25yrs?

Tosh and Rog and a few other window cleanners, as long as Tosh dosn't where his black number

Roy

Sounds like a plan to me Roy

Good excuse for a window cleaners party

Ian

« **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2006, 04:55:29 pm »

Window Cleaning is far from the best job I've had, but it's good and I wish I did it years earlier.

My BEST job however was when I was in the army, working in Northern Ireland in Carrickfergus. I had a company car, free fuel, and a civilian clothing allowance.

I worked in an Intelligence Cell with five RUC Special Branch nutters, and my main job was collating records of terrorist shootings and bombings.

A week after I started the job we had a PIRA ceasefire. WAHAY!!!! It lasted (on and off; mostly on though) for nearly two years.

My routine was to stick my head into the Lisburn office to show I was alive, mince about abit and apologise to the female soldiers for my behaviour the previous night. Then I'd drive to Carrickfergus RUC station and have a bit of 'crack' there (not drugs). Do a session in the gym at lunchtime (lots of females there) and then drive back to barracks and get ready for the evening out.

I had no real job, nothing to do but socialise round the offices (lots of girls) skive; but still in civilian clothes, a company car and a PPW pistol.

I felt like James Bond!

Honest!

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