[martindrz400]

if u have the right work every day should be that put your prices up

[Stuart Webster]

Strange you should make reference to Churchill Bear. After a very full life he became Prime minister at the age of 65 in May 1940. Two days later Germany invaded France.

You never know what life is going to throw at you or when. Coming back on the forum could be your lucky break. The best cure for depression is exercise.A sence of purpose in life is also a great thing.

This thread,(1st £200day) or one similar may have been done before, and there has been an element of I took £220 at the traffic lights, but there have also been many very brilliant and passionate and funny posts. There have also been many philisopical posts about the value and possible meaning of our lives.

I have been left buzzing by some of the possibilties opened up to me by some of the comments, and some of these only came about through the robust debate which at times has included name calling etc. For me it was well worth it.

I am simply trying to point out to the "trouser droppers" that they dont know the person behind the post.
The "asset showers" take no regard of other posters possible situations.

[Spiceworld]

Hi

Just thought i would put my 2 pence in.

I've been doing w/c for approx 20 yrs now. I earn around £200 - £250 a week and work about 1/2hr - 1 hr a day. I love being at home now with my youngest of 5.

I know for a fact there's more to life than money.

But there again i don't need to pay a £250,000 mortgage, i'm sure there are plenty on here that do. I did that when i was younger with 15-20hr days. Not any more.

Richard

[dai]

Spice world, your right. All of us have different circumstances. I have no mortgage or debt of any kind. I could live on two days work a week.
This can make a big difference when it comes to pricing. How much can you charge before you start feeling your being greedy?
If I had a big mortgage and debts, I would feel justified in charging a lot more.
So many times I have priced a job at say £12.50 in my head, and when I transfer my thoughts to words, it comes out at £10. I know it's crazy, but say I went to the job centre tomorrow and asked for a job.
They would ask,"What kind of work are you looking for? Well I would like a job that pays around £600 a week, lets me take a day off when I like, and I don't want to take any crap from anybody.
Can you picture the scene? They would be rolling around laughing like the old Cadburys smash advert. They would say "yes Dai, and if you find one can you put a word in for me". Dai

[AuRavelling79]

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They would ask,"What kind of work are you looking for? Well I would like a job that pays around £600 a week, lets me take a day off when I like, and I don't want to take any crap from anybody.
Can you picture the scene? They would be rolling around laughing like the old Cadburys smash advert. They would say "yes Dai, and if you find one can you put a word in for me". Dai

So true Dai!

[Paul Coleman]

Spice world, your right. All of us have different circumstances. I have no mortgage or debt of any kind. I could live on two days work a week.
This can make a big difference when it comes to pricing. How much can you charge before you start feeling your being greedy?
If I had a big mortgage and debts, I would feel justified in charging a lot more.
So many times I have priced a job at say £12.50 in my head, and when I transfer my thoughts to words, it comes out at £10. I know it's crazy, but say I went to the job centre tomorrow and asked for a job.
They would ask,"What kind of work are you looking for? Well I would like a job that pays around £600 a week, lets me take a day off when I like, and I don't want to take any crap from anybody.
Can you picture the scene? They would be rolling around laughing like the old Cadburys smash advert. They would say "yes Dai, and if you find one can you put a word in for me". Dai

Great post Dai.
And humans have got very long arms so they can reach the windows.   

[Spiceworld]

So many times I have priced a job at say £12.50 in my head, and when I transfer my thoughts to words, it comes out at £10.

Yep i still do that now 

[KarlJones]

wow!  I do the opposite.  I add the odd quid on.

[Count Phil]

Mostly, the only thing stopping you earn top rates is the amount of work you have and your self.

The number of people who say they can't work 8 hours every day surprises me. Get a job working for someone else and that's exactly what you will do, physical or not.

My hardest job was as a student, in the summer working nights shelf filling at tesco. Much harder that window cleaning. You did it 8 hours and more if you needed the money.

With window cleaning you can just go home after 5-6 hours when you feel a bit tired. If you stuck it, you can earn that money. I do 6-7 then go home because that's what I need. If i had kids i'd do 9 hours no prob.

If your knackered get a fishing pole. No physical effort required.

If you don't need the money and have a different philosophy (like me) then fine, but don't knock others who don't share your view. Just add up what you earn an hour and work as many as needed. 8 hours is nothing really. Sometimes I think window cleaners need a reality check as to how much of a laugh this job is. We should try remembering what our last job was like for a reality check. I did 6 days and over fifty hours in my last job. Now I do around thirty time I've had most of friday off.

[steve k]

you`re right there P.Bowen

[matt]

i worked 13 hours today

it can be done

[NWH]

WOW that surprises me,after reading some of your posts in the past i thought you were a lazy sod LOL.

[matt]

WOW that surprises me,after reading some of your posts in the past i thought you were a lazy sod LOL.

 

nah not lazy, i like my "home life" and family time, but when i need to work to get things done, they get done

another early start tommorw aswell

[vwm]

well i fell out with mrs so only done a fiver lol

[LWC]

i did my first £200 + day today!

[matt]

oh and i know ive done a 13 hour day, i have a few aches and pains, but hey, thats life

[Clive McDonald]

What was the work, not the monetary value, the work?

I struggle after about 6 hours.

[matt]

What was the work, not the monetary value, the work?

I struggle after about 6 hours.

a large comercai with large panes of glass upto 10 M highl, then domestics all day, then home for 30 mins and change barrels and then another comercail

not a bad day really

[xxmattyxx]

My hourly rate definately drops after about 5 hours.

I do my money in that time, Im fortunate to own my own home and not have a mortgage, my hours I work pay my household bills, my tax, pays for my car, I have a rather expensive hobby which my job pays for I take at least two foreign holidays a year to go scuba-diving; and when Im at work I work hard if I want to and sometimes take it easier if I want to.

Im in my mid-forties, which isnt old I know, but Ive worked physically outdoors all my life. Physical work will start to take its toll after a while. A post a while back on this thread implied if we moan about feeling tired then we're woosies (or something along those lines). What tripe!!

Apart from 9 years of shining Ive also done 11 years of landscaping (45 hour week) and prior to that was an Agricultural labourer. Ive worked physically as much as the next man, but when it comes to work Im not shy; my joints are what they used to be, simple.

As for working PAYE hours, well, thats one of the reasons I started do shining, all of a sudden I didnt HAVE to work 45 hours, hey presto all of a sudden I could take time off to go to the dentist without having to organise it with the boss or get my haircut on a Wednesday afternoon or take a day off as the sun was shining.

Sod the days of working under the conditions imposed by someone else.

I will have done my money by 11am tomorrow for the whole week, the guy that took over my last job will have another 16 hours work to do at a quarter the hourly rate I earn today.



Matt

[Clive McDonald]

It's nice to see Matt applying himself. There's a few on here that puzzle me. With Matt its that he's laid back and smart enought to know he should use pro equipment. I think the same about Jeff (trailer?why?), and Dave (and he's limited),
And Jeff b I don't understand at all, how can all his customers be sixty foot jobs? Squeakys become a van snob.... and so it goes on.