Franchising Advice My 30 Years as a Franchisee

I ended part 2 of my 30 years in franchising journey with the following paragraph. 

Jeff The Windscreen Part 2 of my Franchising Journey My first management franchise where I experienced lows that I could never of imagined existed and unbelievable highs After a few years of working in a factory, I must admit I was starting to get bored and hit a spell that changed my life. We had three boys my wife had just given birth to twin daughters my mother in law had a heart attack and died, my car was stolen and set on fire to top it all I was made redundant. Type of period in your life you do not forget. There I was 39 years old - 5 children with no skills no car a mortgage and redundant.  I said to my wife I might as well look for a franchise as the 20k inheritance will just disappear we have nothing to lose. Thinking back that was a hell of an amount of trust she showed me all her inheritance gambled on me making a go of it in the franchising world.  I looked at various opportunities and was impressed by Philip Milburn and his operation Highway Windscreen...

30 Years a Franchisee Part 1 JEFF THE MILKMAN  Before my first franchise, I left school at 15 had about 40 jobs everything from a telegram boy in central London, a trainee surveyor, Managing a betting shop, Various Milkrounds the list goes on and on.  As they say now day’s. Back in the day, I was a milkman as then it was a pretty well-paid job and kept a roof over my growing family's head. Got to admit though I was the worst type of employee I did the job for a wage. I loved doing the job but hated the after effects of getting up early always feeling tired. Potential new customers would come up to me and say Ernie we were all called Ernie back then. I have just moved into the village could you start serving me. To this, I would reply that I would love to but can not as I already have more customers than the union allows. If I took on more all the other milkmen in the depot would be under pressure to compete but the Co-Op man Chris is looking for new customers. Load of old tosh...