Gross up 9.2%!!! But…Extra cost for hiring experienced (gratefully got him when he was laid off) helper and maximizing my guys hours by doing other work (that did not prove fruitful during the pandemic but kept them fed) ended up raising my expenses too much , though we ended up breaking even-PTL!
Pretty good.
I’m in Ireland. When it opens up work is as brisk as the summer months are and when we lock down I’m paid about 1800 a month in your money.
Invested a serious amount of money in capital equipment over the last two years and expect it will start paying off once my marketing and vehicle are sorted out.
I’m sure most of you have the experience of noticing a lot of people’s hair catching fire but actually cleaners are doing well because customers are prioritizing maintenance. Some people obviously expected our rates would be lower but they are going to go higher. It’s a culture shock to them that cleaners aren’t being left behind.
In my opinion we are in a gold rush for anything to do with tacit knowledge. If the governments were smart they’d set about simplifying land use and development at this time, to encourage constructive activity - my sense is a lot of people are sliding into the gutter and that’s behind the friction during the pandemic. They’d be better off armed with a paint brush I say.
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Where in Ireland are you Fenster? I was in Ballinasloe, Athenry and Galway for about 4 years.
Been home since 2016.
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I’m in the Rebel County, it is like the Texas of Ireland.
I thought Ireland was the Texas of the EU.
It’s more like the California of the EU.
even Californians don’t want to be in California anymore! All moving to Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Texas. Wouldn’t be so bad but they want to bring the ideas that warped their state to the other states…
expenses down. revenue up, profit up.
very happy, very grateful.
If only it were just that way in the Empire. It’s that way in Europe too.
Advanced progressiveness is indistinguishable consequentially from an immunocompromisation virus.
It looks to us that America is entering a pretty well understood social development phase where the middle class agitates against the other social classes. It’s running out of money and uses its words to describe why it needs to take your money. My analogy would be the landed gentry lost power and took a long time to understand Land was no longer a cash machine - same with people who process information for a living who compete with computers - of course they don’t believe Land is a cash machine, just the Universities.
Americans tend to believe the upper classes were tyrannical from their historical context - which is sometimes true but it misses out on the big picture purpose of that class. Somebody like G. Washington was a kind of superpredator. If your middle class has been enacting lots of policy to suit itself then what you have is an overpopulation issue no different to the necessity of a deer cull. I think you will be lucky if you don’t have yourself a civil conflict.
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We have plenty of issues that are real but too many are politically created by our two major parties. There are some on both sides and others (BLM and Antifa) that think they want a civil war. They are fools to ever wish war upon anyone much less your own country.
Socio/cultural-economics is a huge talking point but as you stated, and I assume I understand your thinking, the upper class histoircally in every country lived according to other laws but many today do not live the same. That said, the economic impact of the upper class drives economies, stock exchanges and world development. Threats and actually taxing of the upper class leads them to move their monies and influence away from job and growth producing complexes and often worse they begin to use it to directly impact politcal outcomes-which is where we are now.
There is still no place I’d rather be but my family origins are Ashkenazi Jewish and Irish. I sometimes feel the Motherland calling…then I watch watch @Trad-Man cleaning in the rain and see the high temp in the summer at 70’F/20’C and I’m fine in the States.
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We definitely don’t want war. Europe is the cradle and grave of empires and entire peoples - I’m sure I don’t need to tell you. The problem for me is that I see the majority of political violent extremism not coming from the obvious usual suspects - but the alleged moderates, the supposed center. We don’t have good language to articulate this and so scapegoating ensues. The problem with blaming niche political beliefs is that it lets the mainstream off the hook and throws their BS down the memory hole.
There’s an argument that political instability is not just caused by sour economic conditions alone but the production of classes. Turchin argues we have overproduced elites and if you look at the ancien regime and the Weimar Republic both look like that contributed.
Of course if you are part Gaelic then you have inherited semi-aquatic characteristics, maybe the pacific north west is calling you to it.
I’ve put on a few pounds so I am more semi-aquatic/bouyant than before. 
30% growth in condo/commercial for me. Biggest increase in 12 years. Gonna shave off the weaklings and increase prices to see if we can work less but make more in 2021.
Fellow window cleaners in storefront and large commercial got wiped out up here. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. Some of them saw opportunities elsewhere and started side businesses.
its been really encouraging to hear that most of your businesses have done well.
I’m thinking how else to expand next year… it seems like everyone who grew this year, it was a result of increase in marketing.
so far I have this as a plan:
- new car wrap
- new (professionally made) website and SEO
- Google Ads/FB ads
I am thinking we have enough work for gutter cleaning, its time to push more pressure washing/softwashing/window cleaning.
Anyone else care to share their game plan/thoughts?
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