how many buisnesses

how many different buisnesses did you try before power washing

  • 1

    Votes: 35 38.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 18 19.6%

  • 3

    Votes: 21 22.8%

  • 4

    Votes: 8 8.7%

  • 5

    Votes: 2 2.2%

  • 6

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 7

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 8

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10+

    Votes: 7 7.6%
  • Total voters
    92
Mcdonalds when I was 15 (couldnt work the fryers till I was 16)
Party supply delivery
Car wash
Construction
car Sales
Shipping/recieving for Halliburton in Iraq (March 05 - October 06)
Started real estate company (doing very well)
Started cleaning roofs and PWing. (Doing fairly well but growing)
 
I've been in and out of several businesses over the years

Global Marketing Group - a distribution company for retail end products
GCR PowerClean - which later turned into TimberSeal
DeckGuide.com - which of course Brian now owns
SpaceWalk of Valparaiso - Inflatables Rental Business

and these we still own and run..

TimberSeal - Wood Care and Restoration of course www.timberseal.net
IPS Industries - Importer of product from China for retail/ebay sales
Business Card Connection - Still own and run www.bizcardconnection.com

I have a marketing business idea Im working on as I tie in to the bizcardconnection thing but there's only so much time in a day unfortunately so it's been on the backburner much like the card business has for a little while.

Outside of that I've worked at a Theatre while in HS, as a equipment operator and a diesel mechanic in my earlier years.
 
16-18 Satellite Installation High School Job
18-21 Dock Worker(Freight Company)SEFL
21-23 Delivery Driver SEFL
23-30 Delivery Driver Averitt Express
30 Purchased Maids to Order Franchise and still drove a truck while my wife got it up and running.
31 Maids to Order re-branded to offer carpet cleaning and pressure washing
and is now MTO Cleaning Services.
31 Quit my driving job and went to carpet cleaning training in Indy. and started cleaning carpet.
31 Purchased a cart around pressure washer and went out and trained with a company that was partners with the pw company I purchased my equipment from.
Pressure washed with a 4000psi 4gal cart around and man you should of seen that set up. Cart around mounted on a Lark carrier slid into my hitch with a hose reel mounted on the side and rest of my gear in the back of my truck and also cleaned carpet while my wife ran the office. Found this website and learned things that helped me in many different ways with my business.
31 1/2 Got busy with both and finally purchased some real pw equipment and have busted my behind since then.
33(current)
I currently have 1 Carpet/Upholstery cleaning van, 2 pw rigs and 30 maids cleaning houses. My wife and office manager run the office like a fine tuned sewing machine and I stay away from there as much as possible.
Oh and don't let me forget: Loads and Loads of stress. Guess you can't have one without the other.
 
Jobs

12 -14 Grass mowing, cleaned neighborhood swimming pool
14 - 15 Worked at local country club, cleaning, setting up for receptions etc
15 - 16 Worked at local hospital, porter - everything from toilet cleaning, delivery room cleaning, stripping waxing floors
16 - 18 NAPA Auto Parts store
19 to present - After coming home from LSU with 0.00 gpa, my old man told me that his financial support for me in my life was over so I better get a job - a good job. He told me I could live at home until I got my act together, but the rent was $50 a week. The most memorable piece of information he ever told me was this " I don't care if you dig ditches or shovel sh*t, but you better be damn good at it, because you are not living off my $". Well, he took the keys to the car, cancelled the insurance he was paying, and said get to hunting a job.

I got a job offshore in the oil field in early '81 and have been employed by the same company ever since. I worked over seas in the North Sea for 14 years (England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands), the Far East for 3 years (Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand), South America for 2 years (Brazil), the Gulf of Mexico, and I am now getting ready to move to a rig offshore west Africa in Angola.

I work 28 days on / 28 days off, so I have to have something to do while I am home, so I started my PW biz about 4 years ago. It's something I really like to do, not something I have to do. My goal is to retire from the company at 55, then maybe do consultant work and continue pw. I have been very fortunate in my life, I have traveled all over the world, done so many things that other people have only dreamed of.
 
My working life started early as I grew up on a family farm..

Age 5 cutting asparagus, picking apples,feeding livestock,chores
Age 6 I drove tractor(worked) like the other farm kids
Age 8 I drove hay trucks...
I have worked for Safeway,Wal-Mart,Staples and like retail work.
I have spent many years running juice processing equipment. Filters, Clarifiers, evaporators.
In 92 I got the chance to go to college and became certified in the field of Machine Technology
Started industrial contracting in 2000
Now I want to do pressure washing!!:cool:
 
My last job..That is what 21 megawatts per hour, 138,000 Volts per electrode(X 3 electrodes) 99,000 Amps each looks like in action...some days are more exciting than others... This is a good day.
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Try driving this by remote control from behind a blast wall and 2 stories above the guys working below you and an open drop off to the last picture ;) You have your Lincoln's and you have your Yugo's...This baby is a Lincoln:D

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Typical 5 Axis Horizontal Milling Machine..and robot guided vehicle system.. I also install and set up this equipment and am qualified to do tech work and service of these machines.

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I'm not scared of the heat.. I have been on fire and kind of like it..
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And in in younger days I used to paint and maintain Radio Towers..
Thomas
 
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12 Sold tickets to the high school game door to door(Even though it was free, i pocketed all the money)
14-16 Mowed lawns, picked up dog poop, raked leaves
16-18 AMWAY and just about anyother make money from nothing schemes( I still think AMWAY was a good deal but i didnt work it)
18-22 USMC ( I did haircuts for cash in my barracks room. Made a killing)
22-26 Working stiff for others
26-now PW BIZ. Loving it.:)
 
FLORIN said:
REALLY???? I didnt know they even had one.:p ;) :D :cool:
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Yes when your small you dont get a lot of press.
Did you know we took over 100 dead in Afghanistan and our your principle western allies in the south,

Many of these guys killed and wounded were friends (this happens when your small)

However its understanding that a lot of people dont know that were there... however if you asked your Army im sure they would have a lot of good to say about us.

Stephen
 
84-87 Navy
88 Worked for Private Investigation firm (San Jose, CA):cool:
90 Started my own agency in home state (Miss.) FAIL - was married to devil:mad:
91 Moved agency to Sioux Falls with devil - FAILED - reason? still married:mad:
91 Moved to Florida, devil followed, went to college to escape devil:mad:
92 Moved to Rapid City worked writing software, ran regional office
94 Moved back to Sioux Falls, opened Alternative Resources - bought repo'd computer equipment by the truckload at auctions, refurbished and sold to medical clinics.:)
95 Supplemented with car sales - still married - now I was becoming the devil- had to get out of that business:eek:
96 Partnered with two other guys for Owner's Auto Mart, a for sale by owner car franchise. We sold and opened 91 franchises and Bizops across the nation
97 Divorced the devil:D
98 Married angel. Moved to Vegas. Opened Dry Clean Delivery "Vegas Valley Valet Cleaners". Became the largest in the state in 6 years.
99 Angel started "Vegas Valley Valet Services" DMV service for people too busy to go to DMV, Averaged 6k/mo her first year in business! She was the third in the state to get a license, 314 followed, now there are only 13 licensed and her business is the oldest.
04 Started Sonitx, Air Filter service using ultrasonic cleaning
06 Sold Vegas Valley Valet Cleaners to two young go-getters who have now bought up 6 more routes!
07 Started cleaning some filters with PW
08 Today, cleaned my first concrete. (sortof):confused: :eek:

Why all the moving around prior to 98? Simple. Was married to the devil. Now last year some other poor idiot began suffering the same fate. :D
 
82 Born
83-95 Crapped my pants
96-99 Fast food, tire stores and school
2000 Graduated
2001 Started buying rental houses, and working for my father{moving
dirt and driving dump trucks.
2004 Started remodeling business and started flipping houses
2008 Started pressure washing. Still have a crew of guys remodeling houses.

I make great money remodeling but it's very stressful. Calculating the time, pressure washing is the easiest money that I make and the least amount of stress.
All in all the best money for me is flipping houses. You cant beat 30,000 to 50,000 for 6-8 weeks of work. But very stressful.
 
soupy said:
Yes when your small you dont get a lot of press.
Did you know we took over 100 dead in Afghanistan and our your principle western allies in the south,

Many of these guys killed and wounded were friends (this happens when your small)

However its understanding that a lot of people dont know that were there... however if you asked your Army im sure they would have a lot of good to say about us.

Stephen
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Thank you.
 
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