[Russell Macdonald]

40, i'm due another mid life crisses  BRING IT ON

Wait till y misses gets to it then might as well join her 

Not keen on her having one 

[dudek]

25

[Dean Aspects]

Im 21 plus V A T 

no really im 36

[tacky]

 55 n please someone tell my grandchildren its paint in my tash .not greyhair

[chris@c.m.s]

41

[LWC]

22 

[Dave Turley]

35...... feel 50 somedays though   

[rugby]

next year i will be 50. oh shi*

[Jeff Brimble]

Think we did this topic before. I am not the oldest but 57.    its starting to hurt !

[Adam Boss]

43 Years young.

[East coast window cleaning Services]

28 got another 22 years in me yet

[Clive McDonald]

Like showing my killer leaflet, and my superior van signing, I ain't saying.

[Moderator David@stives]

I am 40 soooooooooon

[Richy L]

23

[Davew]

The majority on here seem middle aged ( i'm nearly fifty) Is that because we are the only age group able to afford to start up with wfp equipment? i.e. redundancy payments, maturing endowments etc?

[Jeff Brimble]

Na the youngsters have more sense than to be here and are just earning the money

[Dave Turley]

the youngsters either can't be arsed to do anything or have been conditioned by school, parents etc. to aspire to a 'proper job' on £5 - £10 per hour. took me 'til i was 32 to grow a brain and start working for myself!   

[Paul Coleman]

the youngsters either can't be arsed to do anything or have been conditioned by school, parents etc. to aspire to a 'proper job' on £5 - £10 per hour. took me 'til i was 32 to grow a brain and start working for myself!   

Mine grew slower than yours.  I was 34 when I went window cleaning.  I do wonder though if society has conditioned a lot of the enterprising spirit out of youngsters.  I recently took a little boy to the adventure playground I played in when I was a kid.  We used to build three storey "camps", make our own rope swings, and generally get up to all sorts of stuff - some of it not without risk.  Now I go over there and the only play structures are ones that have been built by the people who work there and they are all communal.  Everything has been made ultra safe.  They would have kittens if they saw what we used to get up to (including making a turfed over trapdoor to sneak into the place when it was closed).
This might not seem to have much to do with anything but I feel society has become far more controlled and free spiritedness is squashed down more than it once was.  This seems to start from an early age so can set the pattern for later life.  I sometimes wonder if anyone will have enough self motivation to become newly self-employed in years to come.

[steve5000]

36 

[Ian Lancaster]

the youngsters either can't be arsed to do anything or have been conditioned by school, parents etc. to aspire to a 'proper job' on £5 - £10 per hour. took me 'til i was 32 to grow a brain and start working for myself!   

Mine grew slower than yours.  I was 34 when I went window cleaning.  I do wonder though if society has conditioned a lot of the enterprising spirit out of youngsters.  I recently took a little boy to the adventure playground I played in when I was a kid.  We used to build three storey "camps", make our own rope swings, and generally get up to all sorts of stuff - some of it not without risk.  Now I go over there and the only play structures are ones that have been built by the people who work there and they are all communal.  Everything has been made ultra safe.  They would have kittens if they saw what we used to get up to (including making a turfed over trapdoor to sneak into the place when it was closed).
This might not seem to have much to do with anything but I feel society has become far more controlled and free spiritedness is squashed down more than it once was.  This seems to start from an early age so can set the pattern for later life.  I sometimes wonder if anyone will have enough self motivation to become newly self-employed in years to come.

No worries there, Paul

When I was a youngster, I could genuinely say I didn't know of any other window cleaners in my area.

Today I was working in Canterbury Road, the main street out of town to the east, and in just over an hour I saw five window cleaners vans drive past