Last time I was talking about the advantages of being a cleaner. So I have to mention the variety too. Till now my job is very diverse. Some of the other guys say that their work is boring and routine, but I can’t understand them. Every day we go to some different addresses, we come into different situations, we visit homes of different people who have different way of life… And I like it.
Today we were in the home of an old wealthy man, who lived in a big house in the suburbs. There was a big outdoor pool and a small indoor one in the house. There were several bedrooms on the second floor and several bathrooms too. A month ago I have only heard about such houses and now I was in one of them. It wasn’t mine of course. But I imagined how after some time I’ll have such a house and I’ll remember the time I spent in London as a cleaner.
The house was well maintained and it was not easy to find even a spot of dirt. My colleague said that as long as he works here since 4 years ago, this house has always looked neat and there always was not much for cleaning.
The next place we visited was just the opposite. It was an apartment where two students lived for rent. I guess most of you do not even imagine how this apartment looked like… It was obvious that here took place hundreds of parties and no one did not bother to clean. So we tied to erase the consequences of these student parties. I remembered my student years. Some of the student rentals I have visited then were not much different from this one.
The third place we had to clean today, belonged to a middle aged family with two kids. They obviously were not so rich like our first client for this day. But hey seemed to belong to this famous middle class, which people in my country waited to arise for so long. Cleaning such a house was a real pleasure. It showed that the housewife was taking a good care for her home. Now she just wanted to find it clean and fresh when the family comes back from vacation.
I taught about how my fellow countrymen live and I was admiring the man and woman, who owned this house. They could live a good life without the stress of poverty and without the estrangement, which sometimes comes with the big wealth. I changed my mind. I don’t want a huge house like the first one. I want a family like this one day.