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THE MAID


I am a maid, or was a maid before I ended up in this beautiful village in Italy, taking in the incredible sun, enjoying delicious dishes and going dancing every night. I love to clean, and honestly I don’t know or understand why the word “maid “ comes with some stigma or why it gets such a bad rap.There’s just something about putting on gloves and scrubbing, washing dishes, organizing, doing laundry or cleaning out a fridge that is so rewarding to me,cleaning calms me down in various ways and of course the appreciation that comes from the person you work for which is very rare in this line of work. Did You know that you can find out so much about a person just by emptying their trash can, or cleaning their room?, you can find out what kind of food they like, what kind of books they read, even their mood that day, you can tell how a person feels by the way they leave their room or organize their stuff.Before I started a semi successful online cleaning business,finding work was hard especially in suburban areas which sucked because that’s where the big bucks were. I tried to get a job with the cleaning agencies but most of them weren’t hiring and one place rejected me because I didn’t “fit their profile “, their fancy way of saying that I was too black for them but they offered me a complimentary business card for some weird reason. My online ad generated a few jobs here and there but not enough to keep paying rent, to pay off my student loans or ever go to Europe...