Originally Posted by
mikeinreco
Don't take this the wrong way but you don't seem to ever think outside the box.......I know you are older and this is not how you make a living but some of us do........You always suggest the easy way out and want to just pawn stuff off onto municipalities or 3rd world countries...........I know from your posts that you cherry pick a little
ewaste at this point but some of us actually need this type of material to continue to grow..........Hopefully one day I will make it to your point in life and will be able to kick back and tinker with some stuff but right now I can't turn down anything as bills just get larger each and every month
It's all good Mike. I appreciate the honesty and i'm not personally offended. What you're saying is true.
It was a different line of work, but i did run my own business for sixteen years. I know what it's like. Being out there on your own puts you through the changes. It makes you expedient.
One of my mentors, a successful businessman and Master Tradesman once told me " Some jobs are just not worth doing. " I think we might have been talking about a difficult construction project with a particularly difficult customer at the time. All things considered .... that particular project was going to present so many difficulties ... that it wasn't going to be worth doing.
You only have so much time and energy in a day. These are the resources that you have to work with, so you have to use them to their best advantage. The pressure is on you to perform. Choose your jobs wisely and you might survive and prosper. Choose unwisely, and you will have more money going out than you have coming in.
If you find yourself "doing more of the same harder" and the bills are getting larger and larger every month .... you need to start thinking outside the box. Perhaps it's time for a change.
That was somewhat the case with me. The recession of 07-08 hit the construction industry hard. I survived the crash but it was a constant struggle to make ends meet for the next ten years. There just wasn't enough profitable work around to keep me going. I finally said to myself: " I'm going to go broke if i keep doing what i'm doing".
Making the choice to return to the workforce was a difficult transition but i'm back to being profitable again. I'm still very careful in the way i manage my time and energy these days. It's a carryover from lessons learned in the past.
Besides .... I'm Really Really Really Old ! My days are numbered and i know it ! If the prospect of my impending doom doesn't make me expedient then nothing will.
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Later edited to add:
I got to thinking it over and instead of finding reasons why it's not to a good idea to mess with CRT's .... go at it in a different way and see if there's a means to make this more profitable for you.
Maine is vastly different from Tennessee & Montana. These places are worlds apart in the way they do things. The State of Maine is quite progressive to the point that we're right out there on the bleeding edge of recycling.
We've all but achieved herd immunity with some communities being 99 % vaccinated and we currently have a first in the nation recycling bill pending in the state legislature. It would better not to venture into politics here but the progressives ( socialists ) tend to get the government into cahoots with private businesses. It creates possibilities for capitalistic opportunists like ourselves find the exploits and turn an otherwise unprofitable venture into a cash cow.
If you could figure out how our Ewaste system works ... it might spark an idea that you could use where you are. I believe ours works ... i just don't know exactly how. They don't talk about it much.
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