What do you do besides scrap metal? - Page 7

Originally Posted by auminer

Yall are gonna laugh at first, then some of you will be jealous:

Pooper scooper. As in dog poop. $10 per visit mostly, but up to $20 per visit depending on # of dogs & frequency of service.

So.... Yep, I drive a pickup around in neighborhoods where people clearly have more dollars than sense. Makes for some pretty sweet CurbCo at times.

i will laugh and be jealous at the same time

I am a full time mechanic, part time scrapper but all the ewaste recently has turned me into a computer tech again, seems when i am out picking up computers people ask if i work on them too and when i tell them i do i can usually make at least twice as much fixing there other computers as i do on the scrap ones. Word has also gotten around and i have got a few strictly repair calls which i enjoy, i charge about the same as i would for a "moonlight" auto repair but i dont have to get cold or dirty.

Well I work for a metal recycler, but coach football, baseball and wrestling. 3 boys under 10, wife and house take all my time

I sleep,eat,watch tv ho! you mean to make money. Haa let me think, nothing.

I just do this as a hobby, I work full time as a recruiter for a med school.

Stay at home dad..work 3rd shift at a metal finishing plant...work at a liquor store on the weekends..scrap to make extra $$$ ...

I get most of my scrap from work n ppl I talk to at the liquor store...havent hit a whale yet, but the talkin has paid off for a small timer

Im the night manager at a grocery/drug store. F.Y.I. Dont work in retail !!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Landscaper in the summer. Scrapper in the winter.

well if i didn't suck so much at poker, i would still be doing that. played small stakes online for a living from 2004-2011. when the government shut down online poker nearly 2 years ago was the start of my downfall. live poker is totally different and i failed at the transition.
currently scrap is my only income but unless i figure out how to make more soon then i will be applying for work somewhere.

taking HVAC-R classes at a locoal community college. hoping to set up something for the long term as well as having recycling on the side.

i work at a tannery in New zealand.
i run a online food exchange and donations to help people out.
I run a small whiteware recycling biz were working items are donated to the community, parts are sold of and scrap is sold that helps me tick by abit

I am a printer,40 hours a week.

I own and operate a painting business. This has been the slowest winter in 15 yrs. Scrapping has helped alot.

I work for a cable company as a main line tech. I'm required to be on call several times a month and have been unable to work a second job due to not being able to find a job that could work around my on call schedule. Scrapping on the side accommodates that schedule.

I run a small business repairing business telephones. People ship phones to me, I repair them and ship them back. I also buy, refurbish and sell them. I got into scrapping when I found out the boards in all the obsolete and non repairable phones where mid to high grade. I hate to tell you how many pounds of boards I have tossed over the years. Not only that but every phone we repair gets a new handset cord and I had no idea the old one we threw away where worth anything. When the economy tanked there was a lot of used equipment from businesses that closed so the price of used phone dropped. You could buy a used phone on ebay for less then we had to charge for repair on some of the phones. At one time My brother and I had 3 full time employees and 2 part time. Now it is just me and a part time shipper receiver and my 2 sons help when I need it.
Chris