Part Timers?

Just wondered if there are any "part-time" scrappers on here? I'm a full time teacher who got into scrapping about 6 months ago for fun/as a stress reliever. I use my wife's 2001 Honda Odyssey to pick up items, and borrow my father-in-law's truck for some of the bigger jobs I've had. As I said, I do this for fun but also for a little bit of extra on the side. I've read on here where some people have warehouses and/or storage units they use to work in. I store items under my deck until I can rip them apart. Smaller items I bring into my basement where I have a corner set aside to work in. I probably only turn about 300$ a month in scrap (give or take), but, like I said....its more of a hobby than anything. Anybody else on here like that? I think my biggest problem is how much I enjoy it....and how much more involved I want to get!

That's me. 50 hour weeks. Even longer weekends if I can help it.

i have a full time job, part time job, school part time, and scrap on my free time. i <3 money!!!

Originally Posted by demillo

Just wondered if there are any "part-time" scrappers on here? I'm a full time teacher who got into scrapping about 6 months ago for fun/as a stress reliever. I use my wife's 2001 Honda Odyssey to pick up items, and borrow my father-in-law's truck for some of the bigger jobs I've had. As I said, I do this for fun but also for a little bit of extra on the side. I've read on here where some people have warehouses and/or storage units they use to work in. I store items under my deck until I can rip them apart. Smaller items I bring into my basement where I have a corner set aside to work in. I probably only turn about 300$ a month in scrap (give or take), but, like I said....its more of a hobby than anything. Anybody else on here like that? I think my biggest problem is how much I enjoy it....and how much more involved I want to get!

I am part-time because I am in school (to be a teacher also), have young children at home, and also have health issues. Would love to do it full-time just because I LOVE everything about the business.

Im a partimer. I probally devote 10-20 hours a week to my scrappin and uptill about three weeks ago i was working 52 hours a week at my full time job. I recently got into escrap and that is my new fave.

I scrap part time also. I work at a recycling center 40 hrs per week, scrap roughly 15-20 hrs per week, and repair computers on the side.

i cook full time, but live on the beach so we close for a few months every winter.i will spend as much time scrapping as i can all year.i make a lot more money cooking, but the redneck in me loves scrapping more. i plan to keep scrapping long after my kitchen days are over.

I'm part time, trying to decide if I should expand

I'm a part-timer, I work for an apartment complex full-time, that's also where I get %99 of my scrap.

I am a part-timer. Pick up my scrap off the side of the road - mostly alum cans for now until i figure out where i can go from here...escrap looks intersting...time to read some more old posts.

Teacher here also, but looking to retire soon. Seems to me like scrapping,,,er,, um,, recycling metal is the way to go.

I've been a partimer since my fulltime business took too much of a hit in '92. At that time I could no longer afford to continue traveling the distances I needed. It's "Really" hard to give up the scrap metal mindset completely after you've become infected, so it's always been a part of me being a locksmith. It doesn't hurt that most locks have a brass content!