Full Time scrappers

I do it full time and it is worth it. Like others have said the biggest obstacle is getting through the slow times. Not every week is the same amount of profit or inventory coming in. It's been hard to create a steady pattern but it is slowly happening. Is it worth it? I will let you know in another year or so. For now it pays the bills and that's what is important.

Scrap and resell is my only income. The hard part is probably the same as any independent contractor, competing with people who will work for for pretty much free. High gas prices and gas guzzling truck. Working alone, so I'm a scrapper, salesman, repairman, mechanic, advertising man, security gaurd, truck driver and chef to my wife lol. But the motivation is the people who laughed at me before for scrapping are sitting around broke and can't FIND a job. I MADE my job.