Don't know what my life, maybe start a small business?

spicytender

spicytender

spicytender

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Ive just finished college and don't really have a clue what I want to do.

I am 19 years old

I was thinking maybe window cleaning or something?

Not sure

any suggestions?

Thanks
 
You've finished college and the best career you can think of is cleaning windows ? To quote the IT crowd "it's a noble profession" but could you really see yourself washing window after window after window for any length of time ? I know I couldn't.
 
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Do you have any experience in window cleaning i.e. in a professional capacity? Sure you can try starting a business but without focus, an idea of the market, a decent business plan, experience, start-up capital (although you may have enough for this), a supply of customers who want their windows cleaned and don't already have a window cleaner - I'd have to say the odds are stacked against you, it is possible it will work out brilliantly but I wouldn't be putting my life savings on it.

Have you been to see a careers advisor? I know there's a general (and often unfair) perception they aren't much good but it has to be better than trying to start a business just because you don't know what else to do.
 
I finished 6th form and didn't want to go to uni, started my own gardening business with no experience or completing any market research and 11 years later I wouldn't change a thing. So go for it I'd say.
 
From what I understand of it, or at least how it works round here, window cleaning is hard as nails. You get some local window cleaning mastermind to give you the rights to work a route which is essentially franchised and then you pay a fixed amount for the route regardless of how many windows you clean or how much you collect. If your customers don't pay up or if you don't clean enough windows you pay regardless, and if you fail then the don finds someone else.
 
Think about things you like doing. Then how can you incorporate those things into a job which will value those skills.

Personally I like challenges of a scientific variety and this has lead me to work for some big chemical companies as a result.

Think about what you would like to do on a day to day basis.
 
Learn English?

On a serious note - where i respect people who have to do the boring jobs like Window Cleaning, do you not have any life goals?

What was your dream job as a kid?
 
Take whatever you are most interested in and study it to an advanced level. I left college at 18 and not going to university is one of the biggest regrets of my life. I enjoy working and have been fortunate enough to earn a good wage in an exciting industry and travel regularly for business. However, a strong education is something I yearn for, and it's an itch I will have to scratch some stage. It is much easier to do university when you are younger and haven't established a taste for the finger things.

The only advantage to going to university later in life, especially after you have worked, is that you acquire more of a desire to learn, and will likely have a better idea of what you want to learn.
 
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