[groundhog]

Green keeper
Builder and decorator
Plumber
Insurance Agent
Double glazing salesman
Train Driver
Window cleaner

[Sir Squeaky]

Insurance Agent

Not you as well?

I enjoyed it, but most of my clients went direct debit and the job just faded out.

[ScrimShady]

my dads a train driver!blinking good money!!! :

[matt]

I am hoping Matt joins in on this, as would love to know what he did.
carry on posting every one is fascinating. 

Not quite sure where the dig is coming from. Much earlier you asked that you wish Matt had joined in and I had noticed his reply and duly posted it.

As for adding to it - I have no idea what else Matt has done on his travels. I feel sure that he is his own man and has told you as much as he'd like you to know via his reply.

My life history is as follows:

Born 1976

Started window cleaning 2004

Between the abovementioned years I had a life. Unfortunately this has been sapped away by window cleaning.

Once upon a time I had desire for flashy sportscar - now I care more about payload. Is 650L enough to run through a day of first cleans?


More to come,

Ben

Ben could well have been my mistake if it was sry dude, was not a dig at all, and if people reply I dont need to know more you write what you want to.

Cheers for the reply again if I was wrong  or you reads it wrong I can only sry, I am not looking through every post to find out whos right or wrong, have million's of thing to do at the mo and not enough time.

ANY MORE posts on what you did before window cleaning please add them 

carpenter
building forman ( superviser )
carpenter
window cleaner

he means, ive replied to this, post 14 of this same thread, you must have missed it

[redial]

post deleted as it seemed to upset the guy below !    

[NWH]

P****.

[groundhog]

my dads a train driver!blinking good money!!! :

Yes it is quite good money, the basic is about £37k now at the company I used to work for + paid holiday/sick pay and a very good pension!!. I left because I hated being tied to a shift pattern of unsociable hours which totally controls your life, as a window cleaner I am in control of my own life, I don't think I could ever go back to working for somebody else again as I'm not good at being told what I can or can't do!!

What company does your Dad work for Scrim?

[matt]

my dads a train driver!blinking good money!!! :

Yes it is quite good money, the basic is about £37k now at the company I used to work for + paid holiday/sick pay and a very good pension!!. I left because I hated being tied to a shift pattern of unsociable hours which totally controls your life, as a window cleaner I am in control of my own life, I don't think I could ever go back to working for somebody else again as I'm not good at being told what I can or can't do!!

What company does your Dad work for Scrim?

37 K, thats not bad, a nice pension aswell

[ScrimShady]

my dads on south eastern.Works out of ashford kent.He also trains peolpe to drive trains!
Mrs scrim

[Neil271052]

25 years in outdoor advertising, doing bill posting at sites all around London.

People who think ladders are frightening should have had some of that!

Three 18 foot ladders right out,  working on your own at the crack of dawn, no H&S in those days. 

When H&S recently got involved it was all........ training courses, strap all ladders even if only on the second rung, harnesses ..etc etc.

Killed the job off.

 I earned fantastic money for all those years although never worked more than 5 hours a day and now do window cleaning in a low key way as I don't have to earn a huge amount of money as everything is paid for.

[davids3511]

plus i have lost 3 stone in weight,

Dear Jesus please let it be true. I need to lose about 6 stone , just starting out WFP.

[Village Gleam]

I think it's true, I lost about a stone and half.

It's energetic and vigourous, you don't have time to eat, and the rythmic movements act as a self massage. Your metabolism will be raised for hours on end.
Of course, don't compensate by over eating.

[groundhog]

my dads on south eastern.Works out of ashford kent.He also trains peolpe to drive trains!
Mrs scrim

He's a D.I. then, thats what I used to do, teach newbies to drive the trains. I was with South West Trains. (Hated it!! )

[ScrimShady]

yeah something like that!he wants to get on these new hitatchi trains that go quite fast!!My dad has been on the railway for 30 odd years now,my grandad was a driver on the steam trains too.He was in swindon!
Mrs scrim

[Davew]

Printer for thirty four years, good money, mundane job, mind numbing shift patterns then towards the end I suddenly realised what greedy arrogant selfish b*stards the directors were- time for a change. The only bit I really miss was cycling twenty miles a day - loved it.

[Neil Williams]

16 years Army (Plant mechanic)
8 years Police (Firearms officer)
6 years Carpet Cleaning but noticed a market for regular income and self advertising by getting into window cleaning, so I have 2 business's in effect.

[Sir Squeaky]

plus i have lost 3 stone in weight,

Dear Jesus please let it be true. I need to lose about 6 stone , just starting out WFP.

You've had it then.
Most people put on weight when they use wfp instead of ladders.
Even me, and I'm 11 stone with a really high metabolism.

It's a fraction of the exercise mate!

[gsw]

well bearing in mind all i did before was sit at a desk i think my system had a bit of a shock, doing trad cleaning for the first six months shifted the weight and wfp for 18 months has kept it off........

now if you could market a window cleaning diet you could become a very rich man, anyone who knows anything about heart rate training will confirm that by raising the heart rate during exercise will burn fat and it doesn't have to be raised excessively to achieve fat burning. basically what we do all day long, well those of us that graft!

i might hang around outside a weight watchers meeting and then charge women to clean their own windows......kick start their weight loss for them,  problem being that i would end up a bloater again!!!

[Russell Macdonald]

plus i have lost 3 stone in weight,

Dear Jesus please let it be true. I need to lose about 6 stone , just starting out WFP.

You've had it then.
Most people put on weight when they use wfp instead of ladders.
Even me, and I'm 11 stone with a really high metabolism.

It's a fraction of the exercise mate!

Your right there Squeaky, i've put weight on my belly,  :

[Davew]

I've lost a fair bit off my wallet lately.