Who Is Cleaning With Style?Cleaning With Style is a northern Virginia based company dedicated to serving our customers as best as we possibly can at a price that is affordable. Our philosophy is cliche-is, but never the less true - the customer (you) is always right.
My name is Shannon. I am the owner of Cleaning With Style. For years I used to work as an Administrative Assistant with Sun Microsystems. As the economy dwidled down to nothing in late 2008, I soon found out that Sun Microsystems was being bout out by our once competitors - Oracle. So it was little to no coincidence that a month after the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle nearly 3/4's of Sun's employees received the pink slip, myself included in that group. A few months prior to this I had my first child. And to top things off, my husband had lost his job as well a few months after I had lost mine. Disappointment after disappointment with my resume efforts, I knew that a major life changing decision had to be reached (and had to be reached soon!). It was at that point when my mind ventured off into self-employement...working for myself. |
At first, once I had set my mind whole-heartedly into self-emloyment, I was unsure just exactly what it was that Iwas going to do. I mean after all, I ahd nearly ten years in alone at Sun Microsystems working as an Admin under some of the most difficult projects you could imagine. And once I found myself at the mercy of the employment process, Iwas disappointed at the $15.00 per hour positions they were wrestling around with in their mind whether to give me or not. 'If they only knew...' I told myself. But the fact was that they did not know (and didn'treally care toknow either!). So it was decision time for me and the rest of my family. What was it that I was going to do? What was I good at other than administrative work (or raising my baby?) HMMMM......
The thought of starting a nursery crossed my mind a few times. But the actual thought of non-stop diaper changes and sick, crying babies kind of revolted me (especially opposed tothe type of work I just did.) So I pondered and pondered until eventually I said to myself, 'you know what...you have always been good at cleaning. You have had a knack for getting the toughest stains out of things most people would have deemed trash. Why not start a cleaningbusiness. At least tryit out and see if you likeit. If it works out, great! If not,it's beeter than doing nothing.) And with that thought process, the inception of Cleaning With Style was born.