Newbie looking into market

**Bear** · 08-05-2012, 11:00 AM

Hey Joe, welcome to SMF

Might better keep your steady job (one bird in the hand is worth two birds in the bush) and maybe do scrapping on your off time, until you really know what you can do with it

**Joe1** · 08-05-2012, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Bear

Hey Joe, welcome to SMF

Might better keep your steady job (one bird in the hand is worth two birds in the bush) and maybe do scrapping on your off time, until you really know what you can do with it

Hi. I have done it in the past made some good money from it. I am bored to tears of working for low income as builders mate. Not where I can see myself.

**Bear** · 08-05-2012, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Joe1

Hi. I have done it in the past made some good money from it. I am bored to tears of working for low income as builders mate. Not where I can see myself.

I believe that's why they call it "working your way up". If you want an easier shortcut, go to school, get "that piece of paper", and step onto the job as a superentendants mate. That at least saves you the sweat and blood of really working up the ladder, but unless you were born filthy rich, you'll still have to work in some form to make it

**Scrapcrazy** · 08-05-2012, 11:09 AM

I guess it all depends on what one considers a lot of money. I think I make a lot of money with my day job but it's still not enough and that's why I mess with E waste on the side. Some would consider what I make with my side gig is a lot of money, but to me it's still not enough. Money comes and goes, the more you make the more you spend. Like Ewaste said, find something you're passionate about and find the happiness there. If scrapping is your passion then you won't mind the hard work, sweat, tears and blood it takes to be successful in this industry.