Part- Timers

I saw today that the average Doctor makes about $180,000 a year. Keep in mind that includes small town doctors with small town practices. An average Attorney makes about $126,000 a year, same deal.

I am sorry, but I cannot justify the educational debt that would be required for that amount of money.

Incidentally, my recent college graduate son is pretty upset that my Bus Stop cleaners make more then he is making on his first job out of school. Suddenly, the family business that he hated is looking pretty darn good to him.

In all honesty, I started part time. I don't think that I have ever pretended anything different. I was that way for about 6 or 7 years. Of course, I also made more on my part time gig then I did on my full time gig for most of the time I was working. My final goal was to be able to go full time, and I have been for about 17 years now. I don't think that I would ever go back, of course, the way things look now, if I was to go back, the world would have big enough problems that me not working my business anymore would be the least of my worries, or anyone else's.
 
This is a little off topic, but I feel like college degrees are becoming less and less relevant in terms of financial stability. Maybe its just my generation, but every friend of mine I know that went to college is working dead end jobs or barely getting started in their late 20's into a career. I agree with Scott above on justifying that type of expense and in most cases, debt with interest. And school loans happen to be the only type of loan you can not file bankruptcy on. So if you go to college you spend $100K and spend 4 years of your life there. Come out 100K in debt with interest on top of that, and takes you 4 years minimum to even get into the swing of having a career.

I know its just like everything else, not everyone's circumstance is like above. I'm sure some people are making lots of money with their 4 year degrees but majority are definitely not. In my circumstance I received a MASTERS degree from Google by searching for any knowledge I wished to acquire. Online education makes way more sense. I look up anything I want to know on my time, if I want to learn it I really search and dig deeper and deeper. If I don't want to know it I just avoid researching.

My question is this, what is the point of cramming useless information into my brain when I have access to it at any time at the touch of my finger tips? For example, how many people off hand know what 55586 X 333658 - 46 =?
NO ONE. Why would you need to know when you can just use a calculator. It makes more sense right? So why would I need to know who Lyndon Johnson's secretary of defense was from 1963-1968? If I ever need to know that information, which I don't, I could Google it and find out it was:Robert S. McNamara (1963–1968): Secretary of Defense

Don't get me wrong, I am all about an informed and educated nation. But at this day and age it feels like government funded education and college universities have nothing to offer me that I can not learn from home if I was motivated enough to do so. I have just been thinking a lot about this lately since I have a daughter now. I have been thinking that I am just going to give my daughter the option to use her college money to start her own business or she can use her college money to waste 4 years of her life in college. I guess I will just let her decide and hope I raised her well enough to see the advantages of running her own small business.
 
I started my business in September of 2011 to make some extra money. I started just cleaning carpet in hotels and it's grown from there. I bought my first "big rig" pressure washer in August of 2012 and quit my full time job in January of 2013. It hasn't always been easy, but my monthly sales have increased 4 fold since just January. I still have alot to learn, and a big thank you to the veterans who take their time to help out and post on a forum such as this.
 
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I started my business in September of 2011 to make some extra money. I started just cleaning carpet in hotels and it's grown from there. I bought my first "big rig" pressure washer in August of 2012 and quit my full time job in January of 2013. It hasn't always been easy, but my monthly sales have increased 4 fold since just January. I still have alot to learn, and a big thank you to the veterans who take their time to help out and post on a forum such as this.
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Outstanding! That is the difference between an entrepreneur and a guy with a hobby.

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There are a couple of reasons I don't worry about you. First is, you would not want to manage the number of people I have day in and day out. No disrespect to anyone, but I think that there are very few people in this industry that have the experience to handle 40+ people and 53 different routes that have to be fulfilled on a weekly basis, let alone the finances and accounting for that much work.
The second reason I don't worry about you is because you also have zero interest in dealing with the bureaucracy I deal with on a day basis.
Finally, I have not experienced you lacking knowledge about the pressure washing industry. I don't fear those that know what they are doing. I fear those that think they know.
 
Scott Since you have joined the Million Dollar club whats funny is we likely worry about each other even LESS
Scott Stone said:
There are a couple of reasons I don't worry about you. First is, you would not want to manage the number of people I have day in and day out. No disrespect to anyone, but I think that there are very few people in this industry that have the experience to handle 40+ people and 53 different routes that have to be fulfilled on a weekly basis, let alone the finances and accounting for that much work.
The second reason I don't worry about you is because you also have zero interest in dealing with the bureaucracy I deal with on a day basis.
Finally, I have not experienced you lacking knowledge about the pressure washing industry. I don't fear those that know what they are doing. I fear those that think they know.
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You forget, I don't have a real business, just like you.
 
Yep, especially of everything is working right.
 
I never had a problem w part timers. As long as they were charging properly. I often advise new guys starting out in this business, "don't quit your day job just yet". I prefer they really get there feet wet before giving up the job that supports their family. Some just don't understand the work that is involved to succeed.
 
Scott Stone said:
There are a couple of reasons I don't worry about you. First is, you would not want to manage the number of people I have day in and day out. No disrespect to anyone, but I think that there are very few people in this industry that have the experience to handle 40+ people and 53 different routes that have to be fulfilled on a weekly basis, let alone the finances and accounting for that much work.
The second reason I don't worry about you is because you also have zero interest in dealing with the bureaucracy I deal with on a day basis.
Finally, I have not experienced you lacking knowledge about the pressure washing industry. I don't fear those that know what they are doing. I fear those that think they know.
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Bingo Scott!

I don't know if people realize this, but there are three PWI contractors in this thread, who live in the same city of around 2 million with combined sales of well over 6 million dollars annually.

Yet they all work together, all get along, constantly refer work to each other and have done so as far back as 15 years and still respect each other and remain friends.

One of them is that evil b@stard Ron, who, apparently is so greedy he wants to take all of Jeff Lecours business 2500 miles away and Scott who learned everything he knows about cleaning those 20+ garages he cleaned each year from 96 to 2007 from Jim in 2008!

The absolute absurdity of the claims made against these guys would provide great comedy if it was only insane talk and wasn't accompanied by 4th grade level emails to regulators and Magnum PI org Executive directors.

Who is accurate in their judgements?

Is it (a) the guys who all live and compete in the same area? Or

(B) part-timers, web experts and equipment salesmen who live hundreds or thousands of miles away?

Hint, if you answered (b), please pass the wand to someone else before you hurt yourself. And grab your helmet on the way out the door. Lol.

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Tony Shelton said:
Bingo Scott!

I don't know if people realize this, but there are three PWI contractors in this thread, who live in the same city of around 2 million with combined sales of well over 6 million dollars annually.

Yet they all work together, all get along, constantly refer work to each other and have done so as far back as 15 years and still respect each other and remain friends.

One of them is that evil b@stard Ron, who, apparently is so greedy he wants to take all of Jeff Lecours business 2500 miles away and Scott who learned everything he knows about cleaning those 20+ garages he cleaned each year from 96 to 2007 from Jim in 2008!

The absolute absurdity of the claims made against these guys would provide great comedy if it was only insane talk and wasn't accompanied by 4th grade level emails to regulators and Magnum PI org Executive directors.

Who is accurate in their judgements?

Is it (a) the guys who all live and compete in the same area? Or

(B) part-timers, web experts and equipment salesmen who live hundreds or thousands of miles away?

Hint, if you answered (b), please pass the wand to someone else before you hurt yourself. And grab your helmet on the way out the door. Lol.

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Lol........
 
I'm so looking forward to the day that we can go full time on this ... right about now though I'm just excited about stepping forward and being able to start becoming Part-Timers (I swear it seems like it took forever to get everything in order, lol) ... tomorrow we start our 1st steps into becoming Part-Timers with our 1st paying client.

My personal goal ... over the 1-2 years get the knowledge needed to become full time ... like Doug mentioned I want to make sure I get my feet wet
 
Sorry Tony, you are half right. Phoenix metro is 4,000,000. Incidentally, that is about ten times what the population was when I was growing up here.
 
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