If I were to tell you all that went on at work today you would absolutely swear I was telling porkies...so I won't. I can barely get my head around it myself. Suffice it to say, it's been a horrendously difficult week at work, and I'm glad I'm off now for a few days!
Well, fiddlesticks. My every-other-Tuesday clients are putting their house on the market and have moved in with the parents/inlaws until their new house is built. The parents/in laws are also clients, and it will mean two more hours there because they'll have the entire upstairs, but it will also mean that I'll lose the difference...three hours. It doesn't make me happy to lose ANY hours between now and the end of the year.
I'm debating whether to look for another client in our subdivision. The houses in that client's part of the subdivision are pretty small, most of them only 1400-1500sf. I really don't want to take on another big house. A couple of my clients have houses so big that when I first started working for them, I felt like I needed to leave a trail of cookie crumbs in order to find my way back out! One is 4800sf, two others 3500sf. Funny thing is that these clients each only have one child but have three or four bedrooms, office, media room and man cave along with the usual living area, dining room, breakfast room, kitchens as big as all outdoors and at least three bathrooms. I guess it's the American way: if big is good, bigger is better.
So...if I post on our HOA page on Facebook, I take the chance that somebody in one of the 2000+sf houses will want me. Ugh. If I offer, I can hardly turn around and refuse. It's not like I can say "no, your house is too big".
Dear me. What's an old cleaning fairy to do?
Hope the days ends on a better note for you, but, feel free to share, mike make you feel better or do nothing more than cure our nosey curiosities.But, hopefully, you feel better either way.
April, I do also dog sit for some of my clients...a selected few with dogs that I positively adore. Starting tomorrow afternoon, I'm sitting with my favorite Big Yellow Dog. He's a mellow yellow dog and very old but still playful. I'm probably his favorite cleaning fairy. Well. I must be. I'm his only cleaning fairy! Yes, I know...it also makes me his least favorite cleaning fairy!
My next dog sitting gig isn't until Thanksgiving week, from the Sunday before until the Sunday after, unless somebody asks for me between now and then, which isn't likely. I'm kinda snooty about the dog sitting and won't do it for just anybody, only for my clients who have pets because the clients are people I already know and their dogs are already my buddies. If someone I didn't know were to call me and ask me to dog sit, I'd decline with polite thanks, even they were referred by a client. Let's hope I don't find myself eating my words!
There is a couple in our subdivision who've made casual inquires in the past about cleaning for them, and I'm thinking of asking if they're still contemplating having a cleaning fairy. They have a dog and two kitties. The only trouble is that they are incredibly messy (the clients, not the pets). Whaddaya think? Would my contacting them make me appear pushy? Desperate?
Sigh.
Thanks April, but I think I'll just keep it to myself no point in depressing a whole bunch of people, but thanks anyway for offering a listening ear.![]()