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!
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