When Mindy took me to the grocery store on Tuesday afternoon, we had Sebastian with us and we were talking about the economy, jobs, and how hard it is for people to find work right now.
Both the teens have been trying to find jobs for awhile now, and even Mindy's husband has been laid off for now.
We started talking about what Mindy currently does for work, and what I used to do for work.
At the time, it was a really great top home business for me.
Back when we lived in Maine, I had my own house cleaning business, and used to clean the houses of the very wealthy who lived right on the beaches.
Their homes were so large, it would take me an entire day to clean just one house.
One of the houses I cleaned had 8 bedrooms, and each bedroom had it's own full bathroom.
Even the pool house had it's own full bathrooms.
They lived directly on the beach and had a huge olympic sized swimming pool with a pool house that had 5 changing rooms, 2 full bathrooms, and 2 full showers and tubs.
I used to be really great at cleaning houses, I was paid great for it at the time which was the early 90's, $10 per hour, and I had a house to clean 5 days a week.
I started with just the one house, and then she told her neighbors who each hired me after that.
I used to love doing it, I loved cleaning those houses, that feeling of doing a great job and being told at the end of the day what a great job I had done.
Now, I can barely clean my own house.
At Christmas they all gave me bonuses, at the end of the day when it came time to pay me, they paid in cash and in full, and they sometimes would throw in some extra cash as a tip or something like a bottle of wine or a gift certificate to a really expensive store.
I really miss doing it, I realy wish I could work again, I really miss it.
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Both the teens have been trying to find jobs for awhile now, and even Mindy's husband has been laid off for now.
We started talking about what Mindy currently does for work, and what I used to do for work.
At the time, it was a really great top home business for me.
Back when we lived in Maine, I had my own house cleaning business, and used to clean the houses of the very wealthy who lived right on the beaches.
Their homes were so large, it would take me an entire day to clean just one house.
One of the houses I cleaned had 8 bedrooms, and each bedroom had it's own full bathroom.
Even the pool house had it's own full bathrooms.
They lived directly on the beach and had a huge olympic sized swimming pool with a pool house that had 5 changing rooms, 2 full bathrooms, and 2 full showers and tubs.
I used to be really great at cleaning houses, I was paid great for it at the time which was the early 90's, $10 per hour, and I had a house to clean 5 days a week.
I started with just the one house, and then she told her neighbors who each hired me after that.
I used to love doing it, I loved cleaning those houses, that feeling of doing a great job and being told at the end of the day what a great job I had done.
Now, I can barely clean my own house.
At Christmas they all gave me bonuses, at the end of the day when it came time to pay me, they paid in cash and in full, and they sometimes would throw in some extra cash as a tip or something like a bottle of wine or a gift certificate to a really expensive store.
I really miss doing it, I realy wish I could work again, I really miss it.
My mom cleaned house a couple times a week for someone. I would go with her often and watch my brother so she could clean. I can't imagine having someone to clean my house. I house sat for someone with a cleaning service and I would do all the dishes and take out all the trash before I left. I felt guilty. Once, I was in a hurry and left a plate in the sink. I came back and it was gone. I suppose I made his job pretty easy when I was there.