[Trevor Knight]

I STILL GET EMBARRASSED
 when i see ex sales colleagues of mine and they say , so what are you doing now gary....

i know i should hold my head up as already my eanings are surpassing theres....

but i still feel there is a stigma attached to w/c.....

does anyone else feel the same... or am i being para.

 

Totally agree and that is exactly one of the reasons I want to work to increase public perception of what is a skilled industry we work in.

I have lost count over the years the number of people who "turn their nose up" when I tell them what I do!

I attend regional meetings for several organisations and its so funny when they ask what I do and when they know I get the "just excuse me for one minute, I just need to see that gentleman over there" !!

The crazy thing about it is at these meetings I have presented on 3 times ways to generate and increase business and afterwards people have always thanked me and commented on what they have learn't, funny when before the seminar I was "just a window cleaner"!!

[Londoner]

Yes I know, when I had a "proper" job I was a somebody. Now I am a window cleaner I am a nobody. I don't care though, I look down on my former workmates and all their petty sqabbling, the lies and the backstabbing. They are welcome to it all.

You know you are taking it too seriously when you drive back to a customers house because you remember you forgot to do the toilet and bathroom window on the side of the house even though they are frosted and the chances of the customer noticing are tiny.

[pylofm]

I bought a pump the other day and was quizzing her on the reading difference of water from the tap and the tds coming after the pump...before that I was asking her opinion on whether I should use swivels on the brushes or would I be better off using different brushes...now the reposnse I got from the girlfriend amazed me...absolutley no intrest whatsoever.... I just don't understand them sometimes...

Dave.