full time

i've been mostly doing it full time for about 4 1/2 years ,.....depending on how you manage the stuff ,spread out cashing it in and how much room you can store stuff without someone calling the townships, is what factors in and depends on how steady the work can be ,....depends on the area you run and how much compition you have too
....for me ,my first year sucked but i was starvng and homeless so i still did it cause i didn't have any other work ,....probly put in 30 to 40 hours a week ,made about 15,000 that year ,...........second and third year ,i moved to a new region that didn't have hardly any compitition ,....there was flooding in my area for the second year also ,....but i put in about 35 to 45 hours a week in and made probly close to 40,000 each year .......for the last year and a half ,compitition and other work non scrap related slowed me down scrapping but i still probly made 25,000 last year ,putting in an average 20 to 30 hours a week

i imagine it's different for every scrapper and for every area ,.......the circustances of my area helped for me ,....but i do know other scrappers that do it sistered to other buissnisses or do nothing but scrapping making 40 to 50 a year and staying working all year ,.....but there usually folks that been at it a long long time and have built up alot of connections to get stuff