One can only imagine the sort of converations you people have at the bar at the wc conventions, all bragging about how much dough you do in a day, your early retirements etc. Then going outside to drive home in your clapped out vans to a missus who would love a new stair carpet.
This must be voted for as post of the month.It is so well thought out and paints such a clear vivid picture.
Fantastic well done, i loved it
what are you babbling on about you clown...?
You are the one who typed the above drivel...
Just because you were such an inept business start up and took a completely unnecessary and unintelligent route to build your round, does not give you the right to spout off to those who are achieving what you claim, in a fraction of the time.
How you even THINK you have a right to question my work ethic is laughable...5 years in The Parachute Regiment after joining at 16 years 10 months (June, 1984)of age at least gave me the ability to realise that there are opportunities around every corner to improve your quality of life and personal development. I left December, 1988.
Realising that any significant length of time in the army would be counter productive to any notion I had of realising a stable and secure family environment with my soon to be wife, I decided to put my employable qualities to better use back home and undertook a stringent application/selection procedure to be accepted as a firefighter in Merseyside Fire Brigade in August, 1989. I was awarded top recruit of my course and undertook written/practical Fire Service National Examinations to become qualified as a Leading Firefighter within 12 months of passing my recruit course.
After 9 years service and again realising that any career development looked unlikely due to a scarcity of promotional vacancies and a wage packet that did not last a month...ever...I decided that I could do better elsewhere.
The following years seen me progress from a Residential Social Worker supervising young offenders in the community to a well paid position with a national company as a Senior recruitment consultant and a qualified Member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (MREC)
My daughter had qualified, due to her academic abilities, in 2000 to a financially assisted place at a private girls school in Liverpool (Belvedere) but when I was promoted to Senior Consultant in 2004, my salary increase meant that my daughters place would now have to be totally funded by myself at a cost of £570.00 per month!!
After several months research, I deduced that the only way that my daughter could carry on her studies would be for me to become self employed and my chosen route ended up as window cleaning which I have done for the last 3 years...my daughter has just finished her 1st year of sixth form.
I realised straight away that the money was to be found in the affluent areas on properties where the owners could never clean the windows themselves and who had a different value of money to the majority of us...that is, they would not faint when I suggested a monthly charge of £20 plus.
After 6-12 months of canvassing this type of property owner, I had developed a very good income and invested in my first van and WFP system which allowed me to increase my income even further by now canvassing other high income properties that I was unable to do previously due to height issues.
The last 2 years have gone swimmingly and I have now introduced an even more lucrative addition to my work load...driveway cleaning.
I have no plans whatsoever to be cleaning windows past the age of 45 (I am 40 in August)...My philosophy on my working life is to not stick around a second longer than the point where the work is not achieving what I want it to.
Work is just a means of securing money to pay for the good things in life...there are no medals for sticking around in a job that makes you miserable or poor.
Life should be an adventure...every corner you turn has different opportunities...most people allow these opportunities to pass them by...I choose to look at them and if they offer something better, I get a ticket and go along for the ride.
You can employ 100 people but if it makes you ill and your own actual net income is not much different than the sole trader earning a couple of hundred a day, then what is the point? ...a MBE or something as useless?
No, get real...and please get a life...it`s much better than cleaning dirt off glass
