Greetings from above

Hey all,
I found this forum about a week ago and since then if i havent been driving to the yard or breaking stuff down, ive been suckling from the knowledge teat that is SMF. I know this intro is supposed to be about me but i just want to say; you guys are great. I live and scrap in Montreal and i have never met anyone as eager to educate his fellow scrapper as all of you.
That said let me tell you about myself and my experience. I'm 22 going on 23 in a couple days and i already have 5 years of mixed part time and full time scrapping experience. My intro into this world came while i participated in a volunteer program run by the government. The program sent me all over Canada working for not for profit organisations. To my joy one of the jobs i landed involved dismantling computers, i knew little about computers and nothing of scrap but was extatic to be working with tool and not in some info kiosk.
So on my first day i get the tour, there was the front store selling used furniture and computers, the back room was as big as the store and held a solid iron work bench and beside it a stack of towers that was at least 9ft tall 10ft wide and 15ft deep and every single one was p2 or older. I thought it was cool at the time to see so many computers but now as an independent scrapper i have wet dreams about this place because that wasnt the end of the tour, I was then shown the basement that ran the length of the whole buuilding and held at least 3x what i saw upstairs. In short i spent an amazing 3 months breaking down
computers 5 days a week. It was alot of fun but on my first weekly outing to the
yard i saw how much it was all worth and scrapping became alot more than
fun. I was hooked!
Once i completed my volunteering i went back to working for minimum wage but kept quitting because i knew how much i could make doing something i enjoyed. Every time i tried i couldnt make enough to support myself with a car
and trailer and ended upback where i started at some dead end job scraping
by. Until one day i bought the right scratch ticket and won enough to get myself a little four banger truck. Ive been happily self employed ever since.
Anyway sorry for the novel i'm not as self centered as it may seem it's just that for me scrap is a bit of a long story.
Good day and good scrap!

This is true and remember i'm talking about 5 years ago, as i understand the org. I worked with was lucky just to be able to sell their e-scrap even if the yard they went to gave them 3 different prices: all boards, all cpus and all ram. I dont rememver how much each was but i remember it really wasnt alot. This made me think that ewaste wasnt worth the work and the only reason they did it was it was readily available and they knew buyers. Until i found this site i didn't know any so i concentrated on other things with all ewaste going to shred. D'OH!

I went through more than just a few computers myself starting out, but i owned them, and was looking for ones still usable, so instead of just scrapping them, I fired each and every one of them up. If it didn't work, I fixed it. Just the ones that proved futile filled up a 4x10 ft trailer 4 times when I started cleaning them out of a shed before I moved, and a small pick-up bed of old time Rich! motherboards, which I found a place who'd take them off my hands, for free! ; ) I only got back into it after a repair customer had some boxes in a shed she wanted to clean up, and only took them because she said there were hard drives in it too (which i never found). It all sat under the back of a shed for a couple of years before I started sorting it out, and looking for a place to get rid of it at, which led me to SMF

Nice story and welcome from Massachusetts.