Window cleaning and lawn mowing.
Neither of which I'm equipped in the slightest to undertake at the moment! I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth if I'm honest.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:10, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*lends scissors and jay-cloth*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:12, Reply)

A touch labour-intensive
but thankyou kindly.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:13, Reply)

Things should pick up at Easter
Now the weather is improving, them lawns are going to grow like, well, lawns.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I reckon that'll be my main income.
I'm starting to suspect that the market is somewhat saturated with window cleaners which is a shame as it's work I really enjoy doing and I'm bloody good at it. Give it a couple of years when daughter's finished her exams and I might move to somewhere with a gap in the market and try again.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:16, Reply)

The market is only saturated with crap tradesmen
If you make sure you are utterly reliable, then you should get on. I can't find one in Luton.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:21, Reply)

True.
I'd need to be reasonably established to be able to carry that off really. I need potential business to get a loan for the gear and without a reasonable threshold of that potential there's no point in me trying the bank. Fortunately I'm already in a job so if it doesn't pick-up straight away I'll be able to save and plug away at getting business over the coming months.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)

Good advice
I despair of window cleaners who turn up once and then you never see them again............
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)

I've never understood that.
Repeat business is your bread-and-butter. If there was a job I didn't particularly like I'd still go and do it and maybe increase the price a little to make up for it. If there was a job I couldn't do for any reason I'd give it to another cleaner.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Try knocking on a few doors as well.
Once they see you're a respectable young chap, then they may be more responsive to employing you.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:18, Reply)

I'm almost militantly against touting for business like that
but it might come to it. I noticed there's a surprising number of houses with those 'We do not buy at this door' signs - probably 20-25% of the houses I've dropped so far have them, and it bugs the shit out of me when people hassle me for business at my front door.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:20, Reply)

I guess you're right.
*puts thinking cap back on*
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 9:24, Reply)