Quote Originally Posted by JJinLV View Post
Am coming at it from the perspective of someone who's day job is scrap metal so take that into consideration. But from an income perspective and a aggregate recycling mass perspective, all opportunities to profitably turn and burn lets you grow your client list and serve a larger part of your local market, which also gives you more time to land the occasional whale that is worth dedicating a lot of time to. But that's just an economic look. If the fun of it is the main point then everything I just wrote is immaterial. It's a super fun and occasionally very profitable hobby and $ doesn't need to figure into the decision much at all. Like at this point I've outsourced virtually all my computer repair to a local shop that handles non-scrap electronics sales for us, and another client does the gtsv for restaurant appliances and equipment and so on. I plan my margins for just scrap and take everything else as bonus pretty much
Yea maximizing profitability is part of the fun, but for me I'm not doing it entirely for the money. Just like taking stuff apart and finding trash treasures and saving the earth by keeping stuff out of landfills. Yes I do like the money, but overall my scrap earnings are like <10% of my actual day job income. I don't think I could scale enough to fully replace my day job with scrap income but would be neat if I could! It's just a side hobby for now and/or what I'm going to do to keep busy when I am financially independent and don't really need to work any more (still many many years off)