I have analysed it very deeply, and I have seen that even in 20 years, my work will still be in existence with the same demand, and possibly an even higher demand.
Back in the day, especially when I was growing up, the only people who patronised laundry shops were the rich among us. The poor only patronised them when they had special occasions that warranted having their clothes well washed and ironed with the professional touch of a laundryman. All through my days in secondary school, while living in the village with my parents, I never took my clothes to a laundry shop to be washed or ironed. We had an electric iron and a coal iron at home, which we used to maintain our clothes.
But now, after many years, things have changed a lot. People now patronise laundry shops even to wash their underwear. This is not limited to adults; even teenagers take their clothes to laundry shops to be washed and ironed.
Oh yes, the work I do is providing laundry services to people, and in this line of work, I have seen a lot. Even in the next 20 years, the demand will still be high.
These days, even young people do not like doing their laundry by themselves, and this habit is only going to grow as we continue living on this earth. As I said earlier, I often handle the laundry of young people, including their underwear. And the most worrying thing is that these people are not so occupied that they cannot do it themselves; they simply want to keep up with life by shifting their basic responsibilities to commercial service providers.
As time goes by, the rate at which people are abandoning their laundry duties and handing them over to laundry service providers continues to increase. In 10 years, the demand for my services will still be very strong.
Even as technology continues to improve daily, with machines making this work easier for people at home, many people still cannot find the time to operate those machines, hence their continued patronage of laundry business owners.
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