MetalRecyclingBiz 
I'm still fairly young.. but I've done quite a few things.. Don't seem to stick to things for a very long time as they're just not much for competitive pay in Maine unless you have a fancy college degree, a skilled/trade, or you are you're own boss.. not to mention I bore easily and I'll be honest, I'm not the most dedicated worker out there. I just lack the will power to continue working a dead end job even though I know I need the money.
I'm always reminded of how I used to tell all of my friends in High School that working was for suckers.. that is working to make someone else money, instead of yourself. I got a unique opportunity when I was 15 years old to work for a Paintball Shop that was being run by a crazy old ex navy cop while his son, the owner was locked up for some drama. I wen't from volunteering flipping burgers at an event to the assistant manager and running the place by myself with 3 employees (ha, we were just kids really) by the end of summer. That really sparked my interest in business and being an entrepreneur.
Here's some other random bits I've done:
Farm Hand Picking Pea's & Weeding (8-10)
Bottle Redemption (15)
Paintball (15-17)
Dish Washer at a couple different places (17)
L.L. Beans Seasonal Order Fulfillment Center (18-21)
Construction for a summer when I was 18
Tire Tech at Tire Place for a few months, moved to service writing and then quit.. it was a joke and a half.
Driver / Bumper For a Moving Company (18-21)
Landscaping (19)
3rd Shift Gas Station Clerk (21)
Shuttle Driver for a uniform service, running a straight truck 350 miles a day for the last 18 months.. quit that to go back to school in pursuit of a business degree.
I've been scrapping metals for the last few years, started when a friend asked me to help him recycle all the lawn mowers he was pulling out of the town dump! walked away with a cool $50 for a couple hours work and then I started posting adds on CL.
Another thing the Paintball Company really helped me out with was, I had been doing web design since middle school as a project, and I offered the old man a website for $400.00 - he took it and it got me on the who web design gig. I've done several local businesses and a couple world trade organizations to help fund me while I was in between jobs. I started fixing computers also, fairly easy when you have the internet as your manual.
So now that I'm jobless, I shuffle between using my automotive background (did two years of schooling while in highschool at a vocational school in the afternoons), fixing computers for friends and family, recycling metals, and web design to get by. It seems though, that I'm never able to completely get by, the more I make the more I spend. I need to take a course on budgeting and will power haha! Oh, I almost forgot, through my recycling network, I landed a job as a editor for the local cable T.V. station. Should be interesting! I haven't started yet, its a part time gig and I'm really enjoying the time off between semesters and catching up on sleep and being lazy. Hopefully I'll get my first day in before the weeks end!
Oh P.S. - I'm new here, and you might notice, my grammar - its still a work in process ;]
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