I didn’t know the world of cleaning could be so cut-throat.
I entered the game with great trepidation.
After being a news reporter for 32 years, I’d had enough.
Redundancies were up for grabs so I applied and was successful.
I wanted and needed a life change, do something completely different, something physical.
I wanted to step away from behind the desk, stop chasing fire engines and dealing with death. Cleaning was as far divorced from journalism as I could possibly find.
I planned to take some time off then find something a few days a week to pay the ongoing bills.
I answered an advertisement in the local newspaper.
It was for casual cleaners and was asking for people with an “eye for detail” to come forward.
I dialled the number and spoke to Tiffany (not her real name) the boss, who invited me to her home for an interview.
Tiffany is an attractive woman, blonde and well coiffed, with impeccably kept gel nails, in her early 40s, not the type I expected as your everyday cleaner.
She explained she had just won a contract to clean a large industrial complex a few minutes from my home.
Top Comments
Afterthought. After job interviews I've had recently, like this one, http://50shadesofunemployme... - I'm seriously thinking of setting up Little Menopausal Lady Cleaning Services. I think being menopausal would help give a necessary edge, to the elbow grease and chutzpah such a job would require. All power to you Donna.
Thanks for writing this piece. You've inspired me to lift my unemployed midlife butt, and career switch from the dog-eat dog world of library/information services (believe it or NOT!) to cleaning services. http://50shadesofunemployme... And the
$22 Hourly rate sounds beautiful. Should I get vaccinated first?