# *snobs

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Posted by COMF [COMF] on October 27, 1999 at 04:56:39 {dPkPwxsNJELQHH2bLg9woRa3VCcycQ}:

In Reply to: snobs posted by B on October 26, 1999 at 21:19:13:

With the exception of the job I have now, I never made more money at any occupation than I made when I was a "window-washer." I owned a carpet cleaner and had a couple of 5-day-a-week contracts with medical centers. I went to work at 2:30 in the morning and was done by 8:30 or 9:00 AM unless I was doing carpets that day. I used to hit the apartment complexes right between the university's spring graduation and its summer courses, when all the students moved out and the new ones had not moved in. I was "cleaning up" literally. For working 5 to 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, plus occasionally a couple of 10- or 12-hour days with the carpets, I made a very comfortable living, bringing home $36,000 a year. That wasn't bad for the 70's/early 80's.

Problems with this arrangement: no paid vacation; no sick leave; no insurance; self-employment tax; and tax hassles in general. Then, too, there's no corporate success ladder to climb. People don't much see the need to give yearly raises to cleaning crews. How does one, over time, become more skilled at emptying wastebaskets?

There are pros and cons to that kind of work. Overall, I did very well with it. But I'm glad to be forcing computers to bend to my will these days, rather than carpets.

COMF

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