How do you transition from a 9:00 to 5:00 job to a house cleaning company?
That's a great question, and we're going to talk about that today.
Hi there, I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask A House Cleaner.
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All right, onto today's show, which is from a house cleaner who has this question.
Speaker 2: Hi, Angela.
I was wondering, I don't know where you are situated,
But I am situated in the Limpopo area.
I do have a full-time job, but I am working shifts, and I'm thinking of designing to start
my own business, and so on.
Of course, I don't have enough money, and I was thinking of maybe we should start just
with one person to help me since I also have a small car.
I won't have to replace it after like I said if I expand my business.
Is it better to start in a city?
Also, then again, the money's a problem, because I have to relocate, I have to move, and I
have to pay a deposit, and to rent up front, and so on.
Can you advise, please?
All right, that's a series of good questions.
How do you transition, I'm going to say a full-time job, to a 9:00 to 5:00?
We're going to refer to it as a 9:00 to 5:00.
That's your day job, over to a house cleaning company.
All right, if you have a regular job, you probably have some kind of benefits, so yay,
because you don't have those benefits as a house cleaner, so you probably have some kind
of an insurance, some kind of an employee perks program, or a benefits program.
You probably have some kind of paid vacation, or you have paid days off, or you have sick
leave, or some of those things.
As you transition over into your own house cleaning company, you don't have any of those
things.
There is no safety net, and so you're going to have to start thinking about things like,
"Well, my insurance is covered, but now I'm going to need to buy my own insurance, health
insurance, and life insurance, and whatever, I'm going to have to take care of that on
my own."
Start thinking in your head, "How much money do I need to make in order to pay for that?"
Then you have to think of the other things.
"If I take a two week vacation like I always have, then how am I going to pay for that,
because that's two weeks out of my schedule that I won't get paid for?"
When you're on the 9:00 to 5:00 job, it's paid, so you go away on a trip, you come back,
you still have money to pay your bills.
In house cleaning, it's not that way.
People do not pay you if you do not show up,
so you have to start thinking about that as well.
"Am I still going to be able to take vacations, and if I am,
how am I going to save up for that?"
Now, if you're just starting out and you don't have a lot of money, my recommendation to
you is utilize all of the free resources that are available to you.
We live in the information age.
Everything you could possibly ever want to know is available to you already, it's just
where are you searching, and how are you finding the information, and do you have the time
to sift through, and sort through, and find the best stuff that will help you grow from
here to here?
All right, now, a lot of people will get started in the house cleaning business, and they do
exactly like you're doing.
They transition from a full-time job to a part-time job, and the part-time job is the
house cleaning in the beginning.
They're working the full-time job, and they pick up an account, and so maybe one day after
work, they go and they clean a house after they get off their job.
They have to kind of get used to that, because your body is used to coming home at a certain
time, and you kick off your shoes, and you grab some food, you sit in front of the TV,
and you relax a little bit.
Actually, I don't know anybody that does that, but it sounded cool, so I thought I'd say it.
All right, so now you're going to add house cleaning at the end of that day.
How do you do that?
You have to mentally psych yourself up for it, and go, "Today's the cleaning day," and
then the day before, you got to prep your equipment, and make sure you have all your
cleaning supplies, and you've printed out a worksheet.
You've got to do all the things that are going to be required for this big job, and it's
one house.
Then once you get comfortable with that house, and you're starting to create a system, and
you're getting in the groove, then you might add a second house.
I would say break it apart by a couple of days so that you have a day to recover in
between, because you still have the full-time job.
You have to do the full-time job, then at the end of that, you have a house cleaning.
Give yourself a day of a break in between, and then go do it again, okay?
Don't just do it all boom, boom, boom, because working every day from sun up until sun down
is only going to make you crazy and tired, and then you're not going to be good at either
of your jobs.
Give yourself a little bit of a window.
Once you get up to speed, and you start getting in the groove, and you get comfortable doing
it, then you can add on a third now.
Now, there are seven days in a week, so you might decide that you only want to do the
house cleaning on Sunday ... Saturday and Sunday, so you work Monday through Friday
your 9:00 to 5:00, and then on Saturday, Sunday in the morning, or in the afternoon, you pick
up a couple of houses.
That way you're still working seven days a week, but you get to still relax in the evening,
and kick up your shoes, and eat the popcorn, and the things that I mentioned, right?
There are ways of transitioning, but now I will tell you, you might decide you only ever
want house cleaning as a part-time job.
I know a lot of house cleaners that have multiple businesses.
House cleaning is only one of them, and they still have their regular job that pays them
all the benefits, because the house cleaning does not.
Then there are house cleaners that went full-time, they started getting really busy, they started
making more money on the part-time job than they were on the full-time job, and they started
transitioning over.
In order to do that, then you have to start making deals with your boss.
"Instead of taking my two weeks vacation, can I break it up into days?"
Then they say, "Yeah, I'll break it up into days."
So you take your 14 days of vacation, but you may take it every Thursday for the next
14 weeks, and that allows you to pick up Thursday as a cleaning day.
Then you start booking one, and two, and three houses on that Thursday, which would be your
work day.
Now you know, you know, you're not coming back on Thursday.
When you come back after being gone on Thursday, you've been gone for 14 days, 14 Thursdays
in a row.
They're used to you not being there.
So then you come back to your boss, and you say, "Hey, boss, is there any chance that
I could make up the time and work from home?
I got something else I'm doing now on Thursdays, I would love the opportunity to make up the
time and the work from here in the evenings or on the weekend.
Is that possible so that I can still have the Thursdays off?"
You'd be surprised at how many people actually work from home that have a 9:00 to 5:00 job.
Your boss might say, "As long as you get the work done, I don't care when you do it."
They're happy that you're still there.
Work something out where you can transition, and then get to a point where you might decide,
"I can only work three days a week.
Hey boss, I've been working out of the house on Thursdays for the last two months, working
really well.
What do you feel about me taking a Friday off and working from home Thursday, Friday?"
He might say, "That's fine.
You've been doing a great job.
You're keeping all the work up.
Sure, that's fine."
Now you have another whole day you can fill up on your calendar of house cleaning.
There are people that have done this very successfully until they transition from one
into the other.
Now, it goes the other way.
Once they become enormously successful at house cleaning, they start picking up other
businesses.
They say, "Well, if I can do house cleaning, I could add a professional organizing leg
to my business," and then they start hiring a team of professional organizers that marry
with the same clients.
Then they say, "Well, I have professional organizers and house cleaners to do this same
property.
Let's send in some landscapers," and they buy a landscaping business and a couple of
trucks, and now they've got cleaning and landscaping, and they have professional organizing.
Along with the professional organizing, they say, "Hey, we're running into a lot of hoarders,"
so then they do junk and hoarding removal, and they have all these different elements
of their business.
It's possible that you may just transition from one to the next.
The secret is this.
Make sure that whatever you do, that you're focused on one thing at a time.
If you are doing your 9:00 to 5:00 job, only do your 9:00 to 5:00 when you're doing your
9:00 to 5:00.
When you cut that off at a certain window of the day, and you transition, and you go
over to being a house cleaner, only be a house cleaner.
Don't focus on stuff from the other job, and don't focus on stuff from home.
Focus on that one job.
There are multiple people that are able to do lots of things, but they still have to
compartmentalize, so that when you are a house cleaner, you are 100% in your mind a house
cleaner, even if, even if, and here's the secret, even if it is only one house that
you're cleaning on Tuesday afternoon.
If you only have one house that you clean.
When you show up to the customer's house, be in your uniform, have your cleaning supplies
spectacular, and be 100% there as a house cleaner.
This is not a hobby, this is not something you're just doing on the side, this is a business,
even if it's only one job.
If you treat it like a business even for one job, that job will pay you like a business.
What happens then is you get recommendations because you're consistent, because your work
is good, because you're there 100%.
Even if you have other things going on in the peripheral of your life, if you show up
and you give it 100% effort while you are there, it's going to treat you and pay you
back like a business, and then it doesn't matter if you have a day job, or if you have
an evening job, or if you have another company that you own.
Lots of people have diversified, and they don't have all their eggs in one basket.
The secret is to focus on one thing at a time.
Only focus on one thing at a time.
All right, so I hope that helps you a little bit.
There is a transition phase.
It's awkward, it's like a gawky teenager, but I think you can get through it.
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