Over 300 Metal Halide Industrial Lights, Aluminum Reflectors, Huge Transformers, HELP

I dunno ... i AM pretty careful in the way i budget my time. Maybe too much so. I'll tell ya though .... my days are numbered. I'm gettin' to be an old fart. That's the thing see ? You can always make more money but you can't make more time. Every day ... it's a little bit less. That's why i try to live every day as though it were my last. Lol ... soon enough it will be !

Just an old timer's advise to a younger hand. ( Yeah ... i know ... you young pups think you will live forever. )

Budget your time :

Eight hours a day for work.

Eight hours a day for rest.

Eight hours a day for wife & kids, meals, entertainment, travel back and forth to work, household chores, running the kids to soccer practice, and everything else.

:)

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Originally Posted by hills

I dunno ... i AM pretty careful in the way i budget my time. Maybe too much so. I'll tell ya though .... my days are numbered. I'm gettin' to be an old fart. That's the thing see ? You can always make more money but you can't make more time. Every day ... it's a little bit less. That's why i try to live every day as though it were my last. Lol ... soon enough it will be !

Just an old timer's advise to a younger hand. ( Yeah ... i know ... you young pups think you will live forever. )

Budget your time :

Eight hours a day for work.

Eight hours a day for rest.

Eight hours a day for wife & kids, meals, entertainment, travel back and forth to work, household chores, running the kids to soccer practice, and everything else.

:)

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In a perfect world which you may live in that sounds great but it is unfortunate that many jobs here and around the world do not pay a "livable" income so that 8 hours of rest turns into 6 and that 8 hours of "free time" turns into just a couple........Oh well I'm sure we will get an update from the OP and see how he is tackling the problem

I get it Mike. Totally right. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive. It's not a perfect world.

With my own thing:

I work at a gas station pumping gas. I make a couple of bucks over minimum wage and routinely work 12 to 13 + hr workdays. It's not the easiest life here in Maine but it's a good one. Most of the people i know work pretty hard to make a living. Cost of living is high here on the island and the wages generally aren't all that good.

Lol ... no perfect world here but we manage.

It's kind of a juggling act if you know what i mean ? You gain on one thing but lose ground on another. More time spent working means less time with your family. You get home from work at the end of the day and the wife is all pissed off and the kids are raising hell. Neglect her emotional needs long enough and you end up divorced with monthly child support payments of 800.00$ per kid.

The side jobs do impact your regular job as well. A lot of employers here don't like you doing jobs on the side because they feel it impacts your job performance & availability to come in for extra shifts when needed. Seeing as your regular job is your bread & butter .... it's not a good idea to mess with it. It can earn you a downgrade in your value to the company and maybe even a layoff when things get slow.

As you can see, there's no gain in this ... just suffering.

Point being: Scrapping is all good and well but you have to be careful about the size of the jobs you take on when you're doing it part time.

For me, I usually do what Kss mentioned. Get rid of the casing right off the bat. Throw the innards to the side in a box. Go to the scrap yard and get rid of that aluminum. Get the next batch and repeat the process. Save the innards for when you have stripped all the lights. I would argue against renting anything to store the lights. You will lose most or all of your profit. I would work my normal job (40 hrs) and tell myself I have a temporary part time job now that requires 20 hrs a week. In 20 hours I should be able to rough disassemble a lot of lights, especially if I set up a system and leave my tools ready for the next day. The goal is to keep moving the big stuff out and always going back to get more lights from your source. That way they see you can handle the job and will be willing to let it go a bit longer than they may have wanted it to go on for. Just my thoughts on it.