To be or not to be, that is the question. I suspect that when a boy or girl is young they may not have painter on their list of things to do as they get older. Usually it is a police officer, fire fighter, doctor and some of what society considers the more elaborate professions in life. Who would think about a painter? After all didn't the wood and stuff to build the house we live in come with the colors already on them, or did they?
I suspect that since not many people really give any thought to painters unless they either know one or are one or are in the process of having the exterior of their house or an interior room of their house painted. You may even see them driving down the street in a truck that has evidence of paint spills on the sides of the truck with a couple of ladders strapped down on ladder racks above the truck.
So why would one become a painter? Well usually it is either a family business and you as you are younger get to help out with out getting paid during hot summers while your friends are playing or doing other things more fun than taping off someones kitchen and prepping it to be painted. Or you are the one who gets to mix the paint and have all the clean up to do while your dad and his employee drink a cold beverage. So as you grow older you end up working with dad or your grand father painting and never really get out of it and then you end up carrying on the family tradition.
You could also be the other guy who needed a job right out of high school because you had not money for college and needed to work to save up the money and found that it was much nicer not having to study and get a regular pay check and have fun on the weekends and be able to buy your first car and have some sense of freedom and independence. So now 5 years have gone by and you are still a painter and know nothing else other than painting and you then begin to ask yourself why you are working for someone else when you could be working for yourself and making more money, and so you save your money and buy some equipment a little at a time and then venture off on your own and make your way in the land of opportunity.
These are some scenarios of how one becomes a painter, another may be that perhaps you live in Ennis Texas and want to paint your own house because your mom wants you to during your stay at home from college. You do your research and go to Dallas or Fort Worth to get the best deal on paint and rent some equipment from the local hardware store and get all you need and begin the job of painting your old room for your mom who is making it into a guest bedroom since you are away at college and there is no need to save that room color for you.
Well you have done a great job and mom who wants to take advantage of you and not take advantage of you gives you some money for painting. But she doesn't give you chump change she actually gives you the amount of the bid she got for the room. Cha ching you now see dollar signs for a brief moment until she reminds you that you can use that money to buy books next semester. Well you aunt from just outside Dallas comes over to visit you in Ennis Texas and see's your room and offers you another job. With nothing else to do you say sure why not. Then while a nosey neighbor comes over to see what is going on mentions that they have a sister who has a house in Ennis Tx and needs it painted so she can sell it. Baamm there is another job lined up. The next thing you know you have painting jobs in not only Ennis, but Corsicana, Athens, Hillsboro, Mejia and Waco. You are just blown away how people know of someone who is need of either interior or exterior of the house painted in all these places.
So by now college is no longer an option after seeing how much money can be made while working for yourself and helping others in giving them a beautiful home. So you name your company CP Painting, get a website called www.cppainters.com and get some business cards for people to call
(903)-641-1835
Now you are the best painter in Navarro County
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