I have been doing this basically since the day I became a member, like 15 days .....

Sorry .... i forgot. That was a nice score !

You've got a good location. The Portland/Westbrook area is about as good as it gets here. If there were any place where you could get enough volume of e-waste to keep you going ... that would be it.

I would say keep it simple with the business name. If it says your name & the type of work you're doing then you can run it as an unregistered DBA. If it said something classy like Old Orchard Resource Recovery then you would have to register it with the state and things start getting complicated.



If i can offer another word of advise ? I've been out on my own for over fifteen years now with nothing to fall back on but myself. If you're self employed you really are on your own. Nobody is going to help you if it doesn't work out.

Set some goals for yourself. The cost of living here is higher than in other parts of the country. Figure that you need to be making 150.00$ a day to pay your living expenses. Doesn't matter if you're out on your own -or- if you're working a regular job. You're going to need that much just to get by. If it's seasonal work (9 mos out of the year ) figure that you're going to need to be making 240.00 $ a day while things are good. That way you can put up enough to carry you through the winter months when things are lean.

Might sound like a lot to some, but my best guess is that these are bare bones minimums to get by with.