These are the lessons learned from these interactions with other members:
Every individual has strengths and weaknesses. Those that utilize their strengths and limit their weaknesses, educate themselves, are creative, and work hard will succeed in their environment.
Making a living as a scrapper is like a four legged table. Scrapping is only one leg. Family and or friends/contacts are the second leg. Work ethic, knowledge, and or desire is the third leg. Freedom is the forth leg. Cutting off one leg (it does not matter which one) and not balancing the rest of the load means the table will fall.
If you are not honest with yourself, you cannot be honest on the forum much less in your everyday life. All of the individuals I have met from the forum have been straight shooters (no reference to guns) and more focused on lifestyle than impressing others.
True scrappers are those that want to learn and share, not those that want to impress.
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