financial futures trader.....used to wear coloured jackets and waved my arms about screaming and shouting all day.... good money...good laugh, like working in a playground!!
started this in 1989......in 2000 they decided to use computers to trade instead of people! i had never even turned a pc at this time. end of my trading career( or so i thought)
thought computers were the way forward so jumped on the band wagon and did some microsoft training took and passed a few exams, went into the IT industry .....bored the pants off me.
went back to trading....this time instead of working for a bank, i traded my own money. was going ok, so moved the family to spain to live while i traded over the internet....didn't work out, i ended up risking far too much to scratch a living.
so in the june of 2005 we decided to move back to the UK, luckily we were only renting in Spain. Me and the mrs talked about what I was going to do, trading was all I knew and I couldn't face going back into IT.
Over a bottle of wine one night somehow or other window cleaning was mentioned..... we were still packing boxes in Spain and I was on the internet researching window cleaning.... a google search threw up cleanitup.
arrived back in the UK in July 2005, lived with inlaws (a sound incentive to to gain an income if ever needed) for 6 months, went knocking for the first time in August 2005, haven't looked back.
made sure that i had trad skills sorted before i invested in WFP in November 2005, I am lucky I live in an affluent area and with the advice i have gained from this forum i have managed to build a decent business in 2 years i earn a comparable living to people i know who work in the city and also people who have trained in trades for years, i work hard and i do a good job, i work in the rain so my income is stable.
all i can say is thank god for window cleaning because without i would have been f*&%"!
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