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DaveG

  • Posts: 6347
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2012, 01:45:19 pm »
Stripper in a gay bar.... actually I was a striker for West  Ham, but am too embarrassed to mention it  :o
You can't polish a turd

Blue Frog Systems

  • Posts: 3813
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2012, 02:03:30 pm »
paper boy from 11
worked on the markets till i was 16 packing up & setting up and all day during holidays and weekends
double glazing canvasser
office furniture fitter
warehouse assistant in a cardboard box factory (lasted 3 hours & quit)
drugs warehouse operator - goods inwards (they didnt always make it in)
porter at psychiatric hospital
dealer
health care assistant at psychiatric hopital
healthcare assistant at secure unit
dogs body at engineering factory
office furniture fitter (self employed)
window cleaner
Only those who risk going too far will truly know how far they can actually go

Richard iSparkle

  • Posts: 2491
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2012, 02:08:37 pm »
Speech & Language therapist in the NHS
iSparkle Window Cleaning

www.isparklewindowcleaning.uk

Steve CM

Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2012, 02:20:59 pm »
Graphic designer was my last full time job.

I have also owned limos and wedding cars, bought and sold cars, been a famous DJ ;D, owned a crappy valeting thing.

S.A.J

  • Posts: 2162
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2012, 02:27:48 pm »
Did not have one as I was still in school

Started up the buissness at 16 2 weeks after I finished my gcses

Frankybadboy

  • Posts: 9022
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2012, 02:43:52 pm »
1st job after leaving school was working in brooke bond tea factory,
then a job doing the news paper runs in the morning to the shops,
owner driver of own van doing couier work,
hgv driver class 1
warehouse/forklift driver
then last job before was a night transport manager ;D

ringo1968

  • Posts: 60
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2012, 02:44:50 pm »
I owned a Coffee Bar for 26 years.

  Hard to give that up??

Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2012, 02:58:38 pm »
I owned a Coffee Bar for 26 years.

  Hard to give that up??

Nah it wa easy, it was a De-Cafe bar ;D

Window Washers

  • Posts: 9036
If your not willing to learn, No one can help you, If you are determined to learn, No one can stop you ;)

mickwc

  • Posts: 162
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2012, 04:17:23 pm »
i did 12 years in the army, got out started window cleaning, sold my round, went truck driving, hated it!! now just starting back at window cleaning!! love it!! lol

Andy Leett

  • Posts: 132
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2012, 04:20:11 pm »
I owned a Coffee Bar for 26 years.

  Hard to give that up??

Yes and no, I miss the CASH, it was a busy little place, but I was tied to it, no holidays for more than 3-4 days if I was lucky, staff were always a problem. It was time for a change before I hit 50 so sold it.

Ian101

  • Posts: 7887
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2012, 04:29:26 pm »
Sales Manager and Auction Buyer for a Toyota Dealer

stuart mc

  • Posts: 7775
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2012, 04:50:17 pm »
window cleaner
apprentice mechanic
cable jointers mate
curtain wall glazing
window cleaner
engine dismantler
labourer
controller break down firm
window cleaner
Army 15 years+ agency driving HGV 1
Current Window Cleaner

Steve_c

Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2012, 04:55:57 pm »
I was a kisser gram.  ;D

bobplum

  • Posts: 5602
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2012, 05:09:45 pm »
Plumber

richywilts

  • Posts: 4261
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2012, 05:28:45 pm »
Tree surgeon for 10 years

I still do abit off subby work but aim to have
Enough window work by summer never to put my climbing
Kit on again! as it such a dangerous job

It's a breeze on the glass  8)

Col over gotta whopping huge conifer in outback garden but it's overgrown telephone wires etc if u fancy taking a look blocks my bedroom window
Richard Wiltshire
Window Clean Direct

richardwiltshire36@yahoo.co.uk
www.windowcleandirect.co.uk
07894821844

Frankybadboy

  • Posts: 9022
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2012, 05:31:59 pm »
I was a kisser gram.  ;D
i bet you didnt get any work ;D ;D ;D

Silver Surfer

  • Posts: 191
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2012, 05:39:35 pm »
I was a plasterer before all my eastern buddys took all my work :o

H S and Son

Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2012, 05:39:48 pm »
I was a kisser gram.  ;D
i bet you didnt get any work ;D ;D ;D

If he did he'd have to give a refund. :0)

londoncleaners

  • Posts: 153
Re: What was your job prior to window cleaning?
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2012, 05:43:20 pm »
Tax office 14 years.
Benefit entitlement 2 years