For Nicole Fletcher, the path to career success included a detour through another field and lots of practice in her home life. Before launching Nicole’s Cleaning LLC, she followed her dream of working with money by studying to be an accountant.

“I realized that I wouldn’t be happy working with money unless it was mine,” said Nicole, noting that the coursework did help her next career. “The classes I took set me up to be able to run the books of my company, I just didn’t know what kind of business I wanted to have.”

The mother of four boys had become an expert in house cleaning, so she decided to utilize her expertise and enter the field. “I liked the idea of setting my own hours, when and where I would work and how much I could make,” Nicole said. “Now, I set the hours and I never have a day off.” She joked, “What a mean boss I have.”

Nicole recently took time out of her busy schedule to answer some questions about her business. Read on to learn more!

What sets you apart from other cleaning services?  My thought is, you are paying me to do a job you could easily do yourself, so I have to do it better than you would do it yourself. My attention to detail, doing what I would expect to be done if I was paying someone to do it and overall pride in my work sets my services apart.

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