How many you guys scrap metal full time or just part time. Part timers do you consider going full time.
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How many you guys scrap metal full time or just part time. Part timers do you consider going full time.
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Part time. Every day I consider it. Unfortunately I make too much at my regular job to justify it. Scrapping supplements my lost overtime since the downturn in the economy. I can't turn down the overtime when its available, but when its not there, I scrap. If I ever loose my job I have decided I will scrap full time and see if I can get by on it.
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I just do copper wire and I am full time. This is my only source of income. It is funny because I have a Masters degree and five years ago if you said I would make a living working in scrap I would have told you that you were an idiot and it would never happen. Funny how life works out.
Rural Recycler
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Part time. I'd love to go full time but there just isn't enough scrap available around here.
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Very part time which suits me just fine. Mostly I'm retired (or just plain tired). Every afternoon I go in search of a TV with an recliner in front of it.
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
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I would love to go full time but I have a very good job.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
As the name implies im only part time and even though i only work 3 days per week i just haven't been able to justify leaving my 45k per year job at least not yet any how.
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.”
Abraham Lincoln
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And seriously consider this before being self employed or a business owner. if you are an employee consider these benefits: Insurance, Paid vacation,sick days, floaters, holiday pay, 401k match, profit sharing, ect. Add any of this to your hourly wage or salary. Your hourly wage or salary only represents about 2/3 of what you really earn. If you want to scrap or do anything on your own. Take your wage and add at least1/3 on top of that to average what you currently make. Something to consider...
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I am part time as well. Im one of them overpaid government employees. I cant quit the post office i only have 20 more years to retire. I am working this computer scrap and resell thing as hard as I can right now as a second job. I have a hard drive sitting next to me humming away being DOD wiped as we speak
100 percent full time all day everyday I dream of what I have to do the next day to. Is that weird or what lol.
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I scrap full time and hardly do anything else anymore....I love the freedom it offers and would rather do this everyday than answer to the man....LOL
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Part time for me. Have 3 kids that take up alot of time right now. Have 5 more yrs till i can retire from city, by then hope to have a nice steady income doing scrapping so i can supplement my pension.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” John Wayne-- The Shootist
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Fortunately I work a part time job and am working the scrapping as hard as I can. It curently resides somewhere between full and part time. However, I can do full time scrapping and still keep my part time job that I love.
Experienced Scrapper
I'm a part timer. Thought about doing it full time, but I like the consistent pay check of my full time job. In my area there are so many people doing scrap and so little scrap available that I think it would be very difficult to do it full time. Plus on days when I make a run up to the yard, it's like getting 2 pay checks for the day.
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Scrap Junky Where are you @ I'm in Lima..I feel your pain!
“Most people miss opportunity because it wears overalls and looks like work .” ― Thomas A. Edison
www.thortekrecycling.com
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Parttime...I do pick up on my lunch breaks, and break down items after hours. My girl wors nights so I spend a couple of hours a night every night in the garage slaving away to the scrap gods...
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Good thing we were born with deductive reasoning skills huh!? LOLOriginally Posted by thortek
My girlwors
nights so I spend a couple of hours a night every night in the garage slaving away to the scrap gods...
I get off of active duty March 26th then I will be going at this full time...... there is a huge need for recycling around here that I anticipate good business growth..... maybe I am too optimistic.... but I really see a lot of work where I live.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Im parttime. I was working 52hrs/week at my full time job, and about 10-15 hours scrappin, but that just got cut back to 40 so i now have a extra day to scrap and spend time with my two little ones and wife. I dont make that much money and my full time job and we made the choice to have my wife stay at home with the kids instead of work so scrapping is a very important supplement to my regular income. But its all worth it and it helps that i really enjoy scrapping.
Crt & Ewaste Specialist
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Full time Scrapping, video editor part time. Both im my own boss :-p
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Part timer
God is great, scrap is good, and people are crazy
Its better to be scrapping and thinking of God than sitting in church thinking of scrapping
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