Negativity

I can say i have always judged the person who I have dealt with as an individual not lumped into a whole and stereotyped. I sold an old car a few years ago that had blown a head gasket and the timing chain and broken in it. This was before I started looking into scrap. I put it on craigslist and a guy came by who cussed like a sailor, dipped chewing tobacco(which I do also at times) and spit on my driveway, and told me I was crazy and stupid for asking so much money for that car. Him I didn't negotiate with. The next day a guy pulls up in a truck with a trailer, hands me a business card, talks kindly to me, and leaves in 45 minutes with my car on the back on his trailer for $150 less than I was asking for the car and extra scrap metal I had around the house. I even helped him load it up.

I work a white collar job full time and there will always be those people who look down on blue collar people making a living because they have dirty hands. Then their will be those people who admire those blue collar workers for being smart enough to maximize what they are doing and provide for their family. I've said this before but I might be a while collar guy who wears a polo shirt to work most days but I would love to ride around in a truck with Gus while he scraps cars. I have realized that there are lot of people on this forum who have a better work ethic, focus, dedication, intelligence, and drive than some of the people I work with on a daily basis.

When you encounter these kinds of people just realize that it has nothing to do with your profession or theirs just some people make themselves feel better by putting other people down. They also don't take the time to get to know a man and judge him by stereotypes.