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Wake up at around 6 (or right when the sun comes up).
Bundle up (You know its -11 here in CO)
Warm up car. Go get McD coffee.
Post a scrap ad on CL
Stop by multiple apartment complexes before the trash trucks get them.
Curb shop (right in front of the trash guys)
Look for more scrap all day.
About 4 head to the yard and hope I made enough. Go home to the misses. Eat. Sleep. Repeat.
What about you guys?
I'm kinda embarrassed to say this, I don't have a typical day anymore, today woke up at 6, went to eat breakfast, came home and took a nap :) to be honest I don't plan on doing anything till Monday. I did scrap 4 cars this week, 1 from my stockpile 3 new purchases, yesterday I ran around with a car dealer and yesterday evening I broke down 17 wheels and tires.
My day usually starts at 8 am so i can drive my son into school get home go down to the basement fire up the laptop and start tearing down computers. Then i holler up the stairs for wife to throw a pizza in the oven for lunch strip down some laptops for parts to list on ebay. Then call around to my usual contacts to see if they have anything for me then go pickup my son from school at 3 and then get home and list the parts on ebay the rest of the night
Wake up around six thirty. Go to the store for a couple rockstars to wash down my meds with, grab a doctor pepper for the wife and a bug juice for the kid. Go home and load a few stripped appliances for the flat rate yard, sell them, put the bit I get in gas. Head back home and load nonferrous for the other yard, sell, go buy cigarettes and some sweet tea. I then commence to find more stuff and when I'm full I go home and clean it up. Spend awhile with the fam then off to bed and do it all again. Once a week I change it up and cut compressors all day.
get up . go to high school , do the same thing everyday (SENIOR YEAR) usually will go to the gym after school with friends unless I have a load of scrap to run . come home maybe look into my back if I got nothing then out to the shop I go and start stripping wire. that's my main source right now. buy a said amount every week and strip it . then eat dinner go to sleep and repeat it all over again.
up at 4 30 gotta have my coffee, watch the weather, throw laundry in, hit the scrap pile till about 6 get a little morning smf then wake up the family for school off to work by 730 work 7-8 hours come home back to the scrap or other projects till around 5 then it's family time for a couple hours. dishes after dinner get the kid washed and into bed back for another hour of two scrapping or other projects. usually hit the bed around 11.
pretty standard work day.
Wake up at 5:00 am and do paperwork/email. By 5:30 spotlighting coyotes. By 10:00 hunting pheasants. After limit get to work. I already have my deer and elk for the season. When pheasant season is over I will turn my attention to ice fishing. Work until dark cleaning farms of scrap or hauling to scrap yard. Go home with pickup of non-ferrous to sort. Open SirScrapalots twin cooler and sort metal. Two beer shower (it is cold here) followed by dinner and hour of T.V. Crash with book on face (it hurts and wakes me up when it falls). Wake up and repeat successful retirement. On weekends two trailers are loaded with scrap and hauled in first thing Monday. Goal five loads a week in good weather, three in the trying times. Hope to refine the process next year for more free time. I only allow myself eight hours a day of free time and then it is time to go to work. Otherwise I might get lazy.
Wake up at 6:10, go downstairs to eat breakfast, back up to get dressed, lay around for about 20 minutes, go to school, leave at 2:25, go home eat something, play my playstation, go outside and scrap some, get on here, dinner, bed.
11 degrees ??? Gotta love Florida, Still in the 80's down here. I know this will change in a week or two but I am enjoying it while it last.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mabrito88
Up between 6:15 - 6:30 get kids on bus and wife off to work. leave the house by 8:30. Get to the shop and then its anything goes from there. Answering calls, doing pick ups, disassemble, test, prep for sale and so forth. Usually done by 3:30 - 4:00. There is no typical day they all present their own challenges trying to juggle schedules and customers schedules to make it all work.
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Originally Posted by directrecycle
That part in bold above sums up my day. Add in my fits of not being able to sleep, an I have crazy hours. Pick ups I do certain days, break downs occur all the time, day or night. I may get 3 to 5 hours a sleep in when lucky, if I'm not sleeping I'm breaking things down, moving items through my various ways, or learning more. The only consistent thing is..I stay busy an the cooler is always traveling with me.
Sirscrapalot - I can catch up on sleep when I'm dead. - Not me, but i'll take credit.
I wake up at 4am, usually about 1 minute before my alarm goes off and fix a pot of coffee and, and what is a typical day.
Welp, right now its wake up at 7. Go to school at 740, get out of school about 1221 for career explor, go up to the tech school I went to last year to be a Student Teacher Aide, Leave school, check coon and fox traps, go out hunting, come home look at the scrap pile and wonder when I'm gunna have time to load all the S--t up lol. Go inside, formatting and installing Windows 7 on laptops to ship out for ebay orders. Then play a lil Battlefield 4 or Runescape and head on off to bed. Oh n forgot to mention get the truck a little muddy out on the trapline. But yeah aint dealing much scrap right now, mostly doing refurbing of laptops and let me tell ya, I posted about 25 to 30 laptops for 200 ea and my whole inventory sold in a weekend. I got overwhelmed but one things for sure, Christmas time is the best time to sell computers lol. I didn't really even put that big of a dent into my stash.
^^ I like that kind of day kochy . we don't do it like that in jersey lol I try though.
The alarm goes off at 8 a.m. I turn the shower on to get warm then go to the coffee pot and start that then shower up. Get out of the shower and have coffee with the computer on the back porch (Florida) playing a few games on facebook waking up the brain, and checking Craig's list free section and computer section and making sure my ads are up to date. Leave at 9 to get to the regular 6 hour job 5 days a week and get done there at 4.
During that time, I spend various moments fielding calls about e-waste between driving the bus. With any luck I will have a pick up on my way home or some nice stuff from the job (today I took home a couple of pounds of wire and about 10 pounds of stainless, all of the maintenance guys throw stuff in a pile by the shipping dock that I grab at the end of the day, sometimes there is a large hotel style air conditioner for me).
About once per week, I will stop at Southern Bike Night bar for a couple of rum drinks, but typically I will get home where I try my best to keep on top of whatever I picked up that day. If there is nothing to break down, I have pewter to smelt, hard drives, RAM or power supplies to test for resale, and of course another check of Craig's list. Then comes the return calls and e-mails that came throughout the day, a little break with facebook again, and either an evening of getting auctions ready for e-bay or a little bit of Everquest 2.
Weekends are all about scrapping and reselling. Saturday is an all day event doing whatever I am trying to catch up on and then the same goes for Sunday until football starts at 1. Then I still keep doing computer work while I watch football and knock off around 5 and relax.
All fun. If it wasn't, I would not be doing it.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
Just thought it should be said again. Thanks Parrot!
Sirscrapalot - I got more quotes then a leopard has spots.
Get home from f/t job at 7 am. Help the wife get the three kids off to school. Have a quick bite to eat and check out smf. Wife leaves by 830 for work and I drop the little guy off at Kindergarten by 9am. Hit 7-11 for coffee and smokes and head off to storage locker. Meet up with my partner and start into what ever we have on hand. Last few days have been tearing down 800# of circuit breakers. It is always different each day, but we got back logged on the breakers with the holiday so thats on the top of the list this week. Back home by 12-1 oclock, check emails and answer texts from people we buy from. Get some material ready to be refined and get it started.
By 3 wife and kids are home so its help with homework, talk about our day and get ready for dinner. Eat, family/tv time, kids to bed, take a shower and back to f/t job by 10pm. I am like SirS, a bit sleep deprived, but I catch up on fri and sat nites.
Thats a basic day for me but like others stated, its never the same from day to day but its always interesting!
i spend alot of time on the ice...i love hard water season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patriot76
for me my daughter wakes me up around 730-8 we do the normal morning crap till my wife gets home from work, get *****ed at till i leave, i normal spend the next few hours ether unloading the truck or re packing the truck from picking up or curb shopping the night before. clean up, go to scrap yard, have a bowl of soup. and i leave to curb shop every night around 630. i drive around until my diesel light comes on then i head home. usually stay up until all hours of the night getting stuff done, and drinking to much coffee. normaly spend some time on the laptop working on ads and flyers, thinking about the web site and not being able to stay awake long enough to get anything done about it.
First, I wake up not wanting to get out of bed for school in 9 degree weather in WI,but remind myself that I have too, head to school and sit through my marketing & internet classes, then school I get a ride home with two friends and usually hang out for a bit before they go to work...
After that, if I'm at home I check the free section on CL, go through the yellow pages and select some companies to cold call. After that, if I work (at culvers) go there, if not, I just sort through scrap... every days a little different
Normally im up at 7, off to work for 8 till 5 or 6, scrap stuff there on lunch or break, then i head home after. At home I Check kijiji, update or post ads, if theres something to pick up i go do that otherwise I break stuff down or just hang around or go out with the girlfriend. In the winter i'll go out and rip the sled for a bit some days.