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[Andy Foster]

I suppose it is that to some small extent I am ashamed to be a window cleaner and just would prefer not to be seen in my home town cleaning.

Be it right, be it wrong it's just how I feel.

Cheers
Dave.

Don't be ashamed of getting off your ass and working said ass off!
A lot of my friends who are employed (some in extremely well paying jobs) wish they had the courage to do something for themselves instead of working for 'the man'.

It took me until I was 35 to realise that the only true freedom is working for yourself... after all, you are in charge of your own future, not relying on someone else to provide it.
I saw colleagues getting laid off left right and centre and I wasn't going to be next!

Be proud to have the balls to stand out from the crowd.

If your neighbours knew you were self emplyed, they would most likely WANT to give you the work instead of someone they don't know.

[simon smith50]

same as that andy
started late 36 (5yearsago)
never had so much freedom . never at the moment been so poor . however just realised that losing a £15 grand contract 21/2 -3 years ago was not the end . tommorrow is the best day to start doing things differently .
been trying too hard to be someone else for far too long . tommorrow i become me again going back to my roots in the sticks . being myself will be fun again .
been kicking myself for the loss of that contract for far too long . time to pick myself up and go again .
roll on tommorrow

[jodan63]

very funny 

[Niall McAllister]

The only problem I find are the stares the mrs gives me when the rest of the block is clean and ours aren't.
 

I just point out I don't get paid to clean our windows, and I don't work for free. then when she's in earshot i say, just off to do ours dear :

[Ste M]

i originally started out by buying the round on my old estate, i now clean 80% of them. i have no issues collecting and they all love the fact that i used to live there. they know i will look after them and they do the same to me. i dont have problems with collecting and if i do i dont give them a hard time i just tell them to double up next time and they love this a its a trust thing. the vast majority of my customers tell me when they go away and ask me to keep an eye out. i also get recommendations off them so its like there my own little canvassers

i also do comercial work which started by me cleaning one of my residential customers workplace. another estate i do i got off a friend, she actually went round knocking on doors for me before i came round to do hers the first time, i havent charged her for her windows yet as a thankyou for this. going to have to tart charging soon though cos i am a business at the end of the day

[AuRavelling79]

Well if your going to (be) sh*t what do you expect

Oh I thought with all the poor spelling around here that the O.P. meant shinning or shining on your own doorstep. Thanks for putting me right Ewan!


I don't look for work near me but a custy moved to within 300 yards in the next cul-de-sac along from me and I have got 4 custies in there. Other than that I've a couple of dozen within a mile but most are between 2 and 5 miles away plus a lot in a village about ten miles away.

[Murdie window cleaning]

I don't see any problem with this. The town I live in has a population of 14500, so it's inevatable I'm going to have customers very close bye. There is deffinetly no shame in doing this job, we are providing a service that many folk are very thankfull for and potentialy earning a decent living from.

[JS_Cleaning]

i dont see the problem, i have now 77houses in the estate that i live in (picked up 2 more today) getting paid is handy, as other have said people like the fact that your from the area and have a little more trust in you. 

[JRDEasiReach]

I dont have any in my estate as yet but 99% of my custom so far is in my town and i aint ashamed who sees me, im making a mint well i will be

[stfc]

i clean my next doors,there not a single reason why it would be a problem inless you dont do a good job

[Llaaww]

no problems with working on the doorstep, sitting on it is another matter.