[stevegunn]

I'll start time served motor mechanic

[jacko]

Admin Manager (made redundant after 19 years then again after a year) b4 that Merchant Navy for 11 years.
Enormous job satisfaction from this venture - wish i'd done it years ago!

[John_McGavin]

Army - REME vehicle mechanic, Retail Management then working with a large insurance company - got fed up sitting at a desk after 7 years so turned to CC

[Singrey]

Army - Infantry; they taught me how to clean & how to kill people quite effectively! Not much call for the latter when I got out, so fell into cleaning. Thought that this would be okay until a proper job came along – that was 20 years ago! Oh well!!

[Martin Sambrook]

Army, Securicor, got fed up looking at everyone elses money so started CC'ing

[paul@ctcs]

I left school in 1993 and straight into an engineering apprentiship which took 5 years to complete, this left me with a GNVQ level 3 and a few other qualifications to boot In mechanical engineering. I went on to become a section head in charge of about 20 guys before being offered a job by another engineering company with the intension of developing there systems and bringing there stone age technology up to date. The boss at the new company was a complete arse so after only a year I wanted out!!
With Emma having running the office of a large ish cleaning company (her boss was even worse than mine ) and a few thousand pounds in the bank we decided we would go it alone

It was the best decision we have ever made

Paul

[Karl Wildey]

signature writer for the government. Only work once a fortnight.

[Chris Bailey]

Operations Manager for a company supplying CCTV equipment

Big Brother IS watching!!

[paul@scc]

public house manager before that recruitment agency

[Amberleyandmick]

carpenter- i cut through tendons,nurves etc on forearm on sheet of glass in van...  i struggle to hold small screws and nails now so decided as well as moving to cornwall i would start something new- suits me very well .. mick

[dave401uk]

Royal Marines, got to the dizzy hieght of cpl,got shot in ireland,left the forces and ran a cleaning co for a total pillock,had a ruck with him,and was told if you think you can do better,f*** off and do it,

The best wisdom ive ever had given to me

Dave

[cheryl new]

Ship & Cargo Broker in South Africa for 11 years, Shipping Consultant for a german shipping company for 3 years, maternity leave, desparate not to work in another office ever again, got my carpets splashed n dashed, thought could do better, saw Cleanitup, took NCCA course, am currently building up a nice little cc biz of my own and am having van signed up this week.  Although it's been a really slow couple of months, I'm hoping I won't look back.

Cheryl

[Gareth House]

Started out cleaning carpets part time while at college, then left to become an estate agent, making to much money for too many already rich people, so decided to start making more money for myself with my own cleaning company.

[Richard Edwards]

Insurance Loss Adjuster & Fraud Investigator.

Too much hassle. long hours and not enough money.

Not much has changed then !!! 

[Phil Marlor]

I used to be a Doctor.
But I lost my patience!

 

Phil

[strakercleaning]

Plumber, Undertaker & Military Policeman 

[The Great One]

Hi

hmm lets see....

Baker
Army
Croupier (17 years and still going)
In between had a computer training centre and went down like the red baron in flames 

Now trying to claw my way back up through cleaning and carpet cleaning, been fairly busy up until the past 2 months, now have tumbleweed drifting by and a lone coyote howling in the far off distance.

Odd?

Regards

Martin

[ian richards]

Debt collector, Bus driver, and then in Retail selling Designer Menswear.

but as you can see from above, none of them were hard work, so i have had a wake up call becoming a carpet cleaner     Still wouldnt change it though

Ian

[Doug Holloway]

Hi,

Milkboy,choir boy , paper boy, carpet cleaner.

Left School , lab Technician, Industrial Chemist,Carpet cleaning,Technical rep,Tecnical/Quality Manager,Life Assurance Salesman,Carpet Cleaner,1989

Never looked back but have had some tough times, but stuck at it and now reaping rewards,

Cheers,

Doug

[strakercleaning]

Strangely i omitted the choirboy bit from my cv.
Wandsworth Boys School choir (1974 -1979)............my first taste of being on tv at the first night of The Proms at The Royal Albert Hall.
Who would have thought it, me on BBC2 ( with hair ).