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DJW

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It’s drawing near!
« on: June 09, 2023, 12:30:22 pm »
I find myself constantly thinking about retirement, don’t enjoy the job at all so I guess it will soon be time to quit.
Any ideas for a short note for custies when I go one day?

Smudger

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2023, 02:20:17 pm »
Dear customer many thanks over the years for your custom - its kept me in a glorious lifestyle - I have now sold your details for a small fortune to a new window licker - have a great life - yours - The Window Cleaner


would that do ?

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Stoots

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2023, 02:33:15 pm »
I dont think I'd really be bothered with a note it's not like you'll ever see them again.

Just say goodbye to the ones you like. For me that about 3 😁

AuRavelling79

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2023, 02:52:07 pm »
I find myself constantly thinking about retirement, don’t enjoy the job at all so I guess it will soon be time to quit.
Any ideas for a short note for custies when I go one day?

Are you aiming to quit at state pension age?
It's a game of three halves!

DJW

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2023, 03:41:36 pm »
Yes somehow.

deeege

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2023, 04:01:37 pm »
Havnt you just bought a brand new work van?
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

DJW

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2023, 04:26:10 pm »
I have a brand new van but I use it as my car 😁
I chuck bags of coal in the back, bikes. Muddy feet etc.

DJW

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2023, 04:33:23 pm »
I had no intentions of retiring really until this year when I hit 65. Knowing that I can retire on my next birthday (or sooner) seems to have sown a seed in my head that I really don’t want to do this any longer. I’m sat in the chair covered in salt stains, split hands and frozen feet in the winter working for people who retired in their fifties!
If I can survive financially I really only have one more winter in me.

Spruce

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2023, 07:16:55 pm »
I had no intentions of retiring really until this year when I hit 65. Knowing that I can retire on my next birthday (or sooner) seems to have sown a seed in my head that I really don’t want to do this any longer. I’m sat in the chair covered in salt stains, split hands and frozen feet in the winter working for people who retired in their fifties!
If I can survive financially I really only have one more winter in me.

You'll get over it! Give it a bit of time. ;D
Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration and 2% attention to detail!

The older I get, the better I was ;)

֍Winp®oClean֍

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2023, 08:08:14 pm »
Have you thought about 'only fans'  maybe one evening a week to top your pension up Dave? Live stream from the barge.😎👌
Comfortably Numb!

NWH

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2023, 09:05:54 pm »
⬆️ yeah salt stains split hands and frozen feet I’d pay to watch that 🤣🤣🤣🤣

NWH

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2023, 09:09:59 pm »
Working for people who retired in their 50s yeah I know the feeling I can remember 1 customer I used to have he made about 10 million and retired at about 35,all he did was tinker about with classic cars everyday had a garage with proper lifts etc.
Got in with the wrong company at a party and got on the white stuff and blew the lot,I think when they moved away he just about had enough left to buy another way smaller house and start again.

NWH

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2023, 09:15:47 pm »
Make sure you have something to go straight into when you pack up working don’t sit down for to long you might not get back up again.

SB Cleaning

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2023, 09:55:39 pm »
Make sure you have something to go straight into when you pack up working don’t sit down for to long you might not get back up again.
Yeah i expect you know a few.

NWH

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2023, 09:59:26 pm »
😉

dazmond

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2023, 12:31:17 pm »
I had no intentions of retiring really until this year when I hit 65. Knowing that I can retire on my next birthday (or sooner) seems to have sown a seed in my head that I really don’t want to do this any longer. I’m sat in the chair covered in salt stains, split hands and frozen feet in the winter working for people who retired in their fifties!
If I can survive financially I really only have one more winter in me.

Each to their own......personally if I'm still fit and active at 65 I'll carry on as long as possible as I won't want to  just survive financially...

I'll still want to go on luxury holidays abroad,drive a nice car,buy decent clothes and eat out at posh restaurants occasionally...

I'll have a big nest egg behind me by the time I'm 65 but window cleaning  is just so damn convenient for bringing in income for minimal hours that I can't see me retiring fully that early unless my health stops me
price higher/work harder!

tlwcs

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2023, 01:13:03 pm »
Dear customer many thanks over the years for your custom - its kept me in a glorious lifestyle - I have now sold your details for a small fortune to a new window licker - have a great life - yours - The Window Cleaner


would that do ?

Darran


Customer reply.
Thank you years of service however you have broken the data protection laws and I’m going to sue.

This really happened to me when I sold some work on.
Tony

Smudger

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2023, 01:44:04 pm »
Really?

how far did they get ?

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

simon w

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2023, 02:07:31 pm »
I had no intentions of retiring really until this year when I hit 65. Knowing that I can retire on my next birthday (or sooner) seems to have sown a seed in my head that I really don’t want to do this any longer. I’m sat in the chair covered in salt stains, split hands and frozen feet in the winter working for people who retired in their fifties!
If I can survive financially I really only have one more winter in me.

Each to their own......personally if I'm still fit and active at 65 I'll carry on as long as possible as I won't want to  just survive financially...

I'll still want to go on luxury holidays abroad,drive a nice car,buy decent clothes and eat out at posh restaurants occasionally...

I'll have a big nest egg behind me by the time I'm 65 but window cleaning  is just so damn convenient for bringing in income for minimal hours that I can't see me retiring fully that early unless my health stops me

How much do you manage to save each week Daz, say your earning between 1k-1.5k per week?

DJW

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Re: It’s drawing near!
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2023, 02:30:47 pm »
I had no intentions of retiring really until this year when I hit 65. Knowing that I can retire on my next birthday (or sooner) seems to have sown a seed in my head that I really don’t want to do this any longer. I’m sat in the chair covered in salt stains, split hands and frozen feet in the winter working for people who retired in their fifties!
If I can survive financially I really only have one more winter in me.

Each to their own......personally if I'm still fit and active at 65 I'll carry on as long as possible as I won't want to  just survive financially...

I'll still want to go on luxury holidays abroad,drive a nice car,buy decent clothes and eat out at posh restaurants occasionally...

I'll have a big nest egg behind me by the time I'm 65 but window cleaning  is just so damn convenient for bringing in income for minimal hours that I can't see me retiring fully that early unless my health stops me

and there’s the French rioting because their pension age has been put up.
There is a reason people strive to retire. I have no intention of working ‘till I drop. In fifteen or sixteen years time you’ll probably change your mind Dazmond. Money isn’t everything. I certainly have no interest in blowing my savings on eating beans in a bath for seven grand that’s for sure 😂
There are two JW windies near me and both are wrecked from falls, both in their late sixties or early seventies, still working one has resorted to scuttling around on a mobility scooter on his days off.