I think a job in which you can conbine your time and be your own boss is great...just make sure your spare time is YOUR time.
I was a window washet...
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Nathan Natas
Good for you!
Now you can return to school and learn to spell!
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new hope and happiness
Never cared for school Nathan. ..unless it was the theocratic ministry skol..i loved that Skol...
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no lies please
Great observation. I chose a window washing business AFTER working over 20 years in corporate jobs including middle management. I make more now and work less with far less stress. Corporate America can be a very stressful and unfulfilling place, I've learned. I have also met some very smart non-witnesses that are successfully and happily self-emplyoed window washers.
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never a jw
Window washing is great as a source of income, like any other job, if you are dedicated and disciplined with your expenses. Plenty of manual laborers are great examples of "rags to riches". However, money alone may not provide the critical thinking skills to avoid being pulled into cults such as those of the JW's and mormons. Unfairly, maybe, but that is what's is implied when people refer to JW's as window washers, they are gullible. Likely, they ended up in a manual labor job because they couldn't, or didn't want to, or were not allowed to get higher education. This fact makes them easy prey of cult's leaders.
Bottom line: many cults with silly doctrines and beliefs attract manual laborers much more than they attract doctors or lawyers.
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NewYork44M
Congratulations on having a successful business. You clearly have identified the busines aspect of your vocation. I have seen many start businesses and then fail, not because they were not creating value, but because they did not understand how to run a business.
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Scott77
The WT should be ashamed at the economic damage it causes on hundreds of thousands of intelligent people. LostGeneration Good point.()
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cult classic
Owning a service-oriented business can be extremely lucrative.
ka-ching!
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rip van winkle
new hope and happiness, good for you that you were able to retire while so young!
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A member of my family ( non-jw) owned window cleaning territories (routes) all around Manhattan. He never cleaned the sky scrapers, just the commercial/business territory.
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Anyway, he became a multi-millionaire, but remained a miserable person.