Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
how many different buisnesses did you try before power washing
how many buisnesses
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Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
car sales
manufactured home sales
insurance
manufactured home sales
insurance
David Morton
New member
Hi all
before i started in the cleaning business about six years ago i used to sell fish for 3&half years.
befor that i sold kitchens which i disliked very much to put it a nice way,
but when i left there i was in the top 3 sales reps in the uk,
and even befor all that i traveled around Newzealand and Austraila for a couple of years doing numerious diffrent diffrent jobs from milking cows to a crop sprayer in Western Austrailia, loved every minute of it. I would love to
visit the States for a few months.
My very first job was at fourteen years old milking cows after school and on a saturday i used to get to drive the tractor in the morning for feeding WOOOO HOOOO.
Sometime i had to get up at five in the morning befor school and milk those dam cows.
Davy
before i started in the cleaning business about six years ago i used to sell fish for 3&half years.
befor that i sold kitchens which i disliked very much to put it a nice way,
but when i left there i was in the top 3 sales reps in the uk,
and even befor all that i traveled around Newzealand and Austraila for a couple of years doing numerious diffrent diffrent jobs from milking cows to a crop sprayer in Western Austrailia, loved every minute of it. I would love to
visit the States for a few months.
My very first job was at fourteen years old milking cows after school and on a saturday i used to get to drive the tractor in the morning for feeding WOOOO HOOOO.
Sometime i had to get up at five in the morning befor school and milk those dam cows.
Davy
Squirtgun
New member
Custom cabinet builder
Construction
Custom cabinet builder
Mobile home builder
Tire manufacturing
I still build cabinets for a friend on occasion,but it costs him big money,but I can turn out a complete kitchen and 2 baths in 2 days.All his guys have to do when I'm done is spray laquer and install.
Construction
Custom cabinet builder
Mobile home builder
Tire manufacturing
I still build cabinets for a friend on occasion,but it costs him big money,but I can turn out a complete kitchen and 2 baths in 2 days.All his guys have to do when I'm done is spray laquer and install.
jlpressure
JL Pressure Washing
Bus boy & newspaper route 12-16
cook 16-18
California party party computer clean room 18 -19 Great time
ran warehouse 19-22
Union Steel painter/sandblaster 22 - 35 Great job, plus a part time paint biz
35- 38 no work due to work accident
38-40 partied again
40- ------ The Future Pressure Washing KING
cook 16-18
California party party computer clean room 18 -19 Great time
ran warehouse 19-22
Union Steel painter/sandblaster 22 - 35 Great job, plus a part time paint biz
35- 38 no work due to work accident
38-40 partied again
40- ------ The Future Pressure Washing KING
jlpressure
JL Pressure Washing
Bus boy & newspaper route 11-15
cook 16-18
California party party computer clean room 18 -19 Great time
ran warehouse 19-22
Union Steel painter/sandblaster 22 - 35 Great job, plus a part time paint biz
35- 38 no work due to work accident
38-40 partied again
40- ------ The Future Pressure Washing KING
the future..... Jeff The Gigolo LOL
cook 16-18
California party party computer clean room 18 -19 Great time
ran warehouse 19-22
Union Steel painter/sandblaster 22 - 35 Great job, plus a part time paint biz
35- 38 no work due to work accident
38-40 partied again
40- ------ The Future Pressure Washing KING
the future..... Jeff The Gigolo LOL
Clean County PW
Active member
paper route at 12
Played HS football
Played HS Ice Hockey(Led my school in scoring to yrs playing the on the senior team but never played as a senior cause I worlked alot of hours at Sears.
Worked for Channels
Worked at a catering hall doing the roving bar and meeting chicks
Designed laboratory furniture.
went to a 2y college at night but never got my degree even though I did this for 4 yrs. Became good in pool and fooseball
seved USN 4yrs 82-86 honorably
NYPD police officer 87-89
Oyster Bay Cove private vilage cop 89-current.
Pool cleaner 95
powerwasher 96-current and beyond.
Loving life 80s to curent and beyond
Late 70 where like a blackout/blur.no recall
Beautiful wife and two youg girls 93-forever and ever
Played HS football
Played HS Ice Hockey(Led my school in scoring to yrs playing the on the senior team but never played as a senior cause I worlked alot of hours at Sears.
Worked for Channels
Worked at a catering hall doing the roving bar and meeting chicks
Designed laboratory furniture.
went to a 2y college at night but never got my degree even though I did this for 4 yrs. Became good in pool and fooseball
seved USN 4yrs 82-86 honorably
NYPD police officer 87-89
Oyster Bay Cove private vilage cop 89-current.
Pool cleaner 95
powerwasher 96-current and beyond.
Loving life 80s to curent and beyond
Late 70 where like a blackout/blur.no recall
Beautiful wife and two youg girls 93-forever and ever
taselton2
Softwashing Instructor/Moderator
8-15 mowing, etc...
15-16 plant nursery, football
17 - I did a summer on a farm in Pelham, Ga. (melons *damn!*, fences, painting, heat, & knats) football
18-20 fitness instructor at a gym/some college
20-22 equipment rental store (delivery/servicing equip/assistant manager) I bought a 5gpm @ 2500 honda/gear/cat (simpson) from them /started washing some/left there to go to fire & emt school.
22-25 washed roofs & houses/finished fire & emt school/worked part time on fire dept. "reserves"
25-present (35) fulltime fireman for city of Tallahassee and still washing roofs & houses
15-16 plant nursery, football
17 - I did a summer on a farm in Pelham, Ga. (melons *damn!*, fences, painting, heat, & knats) football
18-20 fitness instructor at a gym/some college
20-22 equipment rental store (delivery/servicing equip/assistant manager) I bought a 5gpm @ 2500 honda/gear/cat (simpson) from them /started washing some/left there to go to fire & emt school.
22-25 washed roofs & houses/finished fire & emt school/worked part time on fire dept. "reserves"
25-present (35) fulltime fireman for city of Tallahassee and still washing roofs & houses
David Morton
New member
Hi all
I thought i had a bit of a mixed past, Some of you guys have done loads of different things which i think is great. It tends to build a good all round person that has charicitor & can turn there hand to nearly anything.
Davy
I thought i had a bit of a mixed past, Some of you guys have done loads of different things which i think is great. It tends to build a good all round person that has charicitor & can turn there hand to nearly anything.
Davy
Squirtgun
New member
Boy you hit the big time in Pelham...........
Stop knocking the gnats,afer all they are the state bird.
Scott Stone
New member
Quite honestly, this is my first business. Now it has ahd a bit of a metamorphosis ove rtime to better hit profitabel markets, but I still have the original business name.
I have owned others over the years and will soon veture into another establish operation. (won't disclose so dont ask)
I can't even take a guess at how many over the years. I have done many different things. Owning and running niteclubs was fun, but it was taxing on family and even freinds.
I can't even take a guess at how many over the years. I have done many different things. Owning and running niteclubs was fun, but it was taxing on family and even freinds.
taselton2
Softwashing Instructor/Moderator
Boy you hit the big time in Pelham...........
Stop knocking the gnats,afer all they are the state bird.
Pelham was something, we worked our azz off in that south Georgia heat. Picking melons is no joke! Gnats, my bad I'm not the best speller (knats).
DustinC
New member
11-15 grass cutting/landscaping
15-18 commercial fisherman(crab potter) and grass cutting/landscaping
18-22 usmc
22-23 worked for a tree company- climbing,pruning,cutting down
23-28 sysco foods(great company) started in the warehouse and went to delivery driver last three years
28........exterior cleaning extraordinaire
alot of other little jobs in between.It feels good to finally know exactly what I want to do
15-18 commercial fisherman(crab potter) and grass cutting/landscaping
18-22 usmc
22-23 worked for a tree company- climbing,pruning,cutting down
23-28 sysco foods(great company) started in the warehouse and went to delivery driver last three years
28........exterior cleaning extraordinaire
alot of other little jobs in between.It feels good to finally know exactly what I want to do
jlpressure
JL Pressure Washing
Bunch of bums cant hold a job LOL Only kidding
Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
thats funny
Dave Olson
Workin North of 60
’53-60 worked on family farm, cattle & crops, we were city farmers. I helped bail hay, plowed and planted the fields mainly corn and soybeans. We had sheep, poultry, dairy cattle, steers, pigs, and horses. Drove farm tractors, trucks and semis. Helped my Dad with his businesses, white washing dairy barns, plastering silos, used car lot, junking cars at scrape yards.
’61 First real job was a shipping receiving clerk at paint/glass store.
’62 got married and we still are!
’62-86 I had warehousing, packaging, manufacturing, production & inventory control, rail and truck fleet management type jobs. These (8 or so) companies that I worked for dealt in a very wide range of stuff. Timing devices, radar systems, piston pins, textbooks, compressed gases, solvents, resins, and general freight
I drove truck when unemployed hauling grain, compressed gas, steel, cattle, pigs, hay and straw.
Having a background in handling chemicals in transportation has helped me in running my mobile cleaning business.
’84 started my cleaning business part-time.
’86 Lost my last Real job and I have been fulltime commercial cleaning contractor ever since.
Future - no plans just yet for retirement!
Dave Olson
’61 First real job was a shipping receiving clerk at paint/glass store.
’62 got married and we still are!
’62-86 I had warehousing, packaging, manufacturing, production & inventory control, rail and truck fleet management type jobs. These (8 or so) companies that I worked for dealt in a very wide range of stuff. Timing devices, radar systems, piston pins, textbooks, compressed gases, solvents, resins, and general freight
I drove truck when unemployed hauling grain, compressed gas, steel, cattle, pigs, hay and straw.
Having a background in handling chemicals in transportation has helped me in running my mobile cleaning business.
’84 started my cleaning business part-time.
’86 Lost my last Real job and I have been fulltime commercial cleaning contractor ever since.
Future - no plans just yet for retirement!
Dave Olson
Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
you are a man of 1000 faces
Scott Stone
New member
If you want a resume, here it is.
13 yo Paper route. I had a trailer park full of retired people. Gravy gig.
16 I worked for a pinball machine distributor. Started out manning the joint, Then delivering, then I was going on buying trips with the owner to other states. My parents actually let me miss high school for these trips.
18 Kmart for a year.
19 Motorola
19-21 Church Mission to France and Belgium
21 to 25 Motorola again in Lap room
25 Utility first night loader for the delivery trucks, then warehouseman, and working in scrap yard finally finished by writing the complete Hazardous waste program for the utility. It is still in use.
Off for a year at 29
30 Drove a milk truck, and was eventually supervisor with 105 drivers.
Baby cried when I came home one day because he was scared of strangers. I quit within a week.
Drove a truck delivering CHemicals to California for a year.
36 to now, Full time pwash gig. For what it is worht, I started the business when I was off for a year, but did not have a lot of direction at that time.
13 yo Paper route. I had a trailer park full of retired people. Gravy gig.
16 I worked for a pinball machine distributor. Started out manning the joint, Then delivering, then I was going on buying trips with the owner to other states. My parents actually let me miss high school for these trips.
18 Kmart for a year.
19 Motorola
19-21 Church Mission to France and Belgium
21 to 25 Motorola again in Lap room
25 Utility first night loader for the delivery trucks, then warehouseman, and working in scrap yard finally finished by writing the complete Hazardous waste program for the utility. It is still in use.
Off for a year at 29
30 Drove a milk truck, and was eventually supervisor with 105 drivers.
Baby cried when I came home one day because he was scared of strangers. I quit within a week.
Drove a truck delivering CHemicals to California for a year.
36 to now, Full time pwash gig. For what it is worht, I started the business when I was off for a year, but did not have a lot of direction at that time.