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Old 12-08-2011, 05:41 PM   #12
Neva
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did it (different franchise, same model) - total BS, their support is weak at the best.

you're WAY better off getting a job in a restaurant for the summer - yes it can be a good learning experience, but then again, it could be an expensive lesson to learn, given your opportunity cost.

for someone like me who will always stand by their work, i was disgusted by the shit they make you use, paint wise - colour your world, glidden, all those BS paint companies they force on you - absolute junk, for my own houses I only use Behr, the difference in thickness first and foremost is night and day, above and beyond that, 1 coat of Behr covers better than 2 coats of hte piss water they want you to use.

STAY AWAY!!!!! that's my main take away - yes, some ppl will make money, some will make good money at that and do it each and every year - but these kind of people are probably the kind that don't mind doing subpar work and walking away from it - for me, if i'm going to take someone's hard earned money you're damn skippy i'm going to make sure they get value for money

heed my advice, please, don't ruin your first uni summer - you should be enjoying these years, not stressing over deadbeat employee's fuck ups, or bitching clients, or sub par materials - go work for someone else, do a good job, earn good coin, bank it, leave work each day stress free... there's time for starting your own franchise later in life (like 3 years later).... but in uni, just enjoy life
This really made me think about what I wanted. You made some wicked points about enjoying summer but really last year when I took the summer off I just ended up taking more courses so between the two making coin seems decent.

Shit product is definitely a downside to it all but again they should know what they're buying and I get covered by the university painters name when people decide to bitch about quality. Terrible way to look at it but I'd like to be able to have some coin and pay for school for once.

I still have the night to think the offer over but I'm leaning towards taking it at this point. Thanks for the input guys.
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