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You left out my category: Has a ""real"" job, scraps for extra money, doesn't really give a rat's @$$ what you or anyone else thinks about what ""level"" he is.

Originally Posted by auminer

You left out my category: Has a ""real"" job, scraps for extra money, doesn't really give a rat's @$$ what you or anyone else thinks about what ""level"" he is.

Agreed......Level three sounds pretty good.......5000 a month salary??....That's 62,000 a year..There are people that went to college 10 years and don't make that..........I started at level one with less than a 100 bucks and a borrowed truck and would say I make after expenses somewhere in that range............I rarely get hurt because I am smart and have done this enough to know how to not hurt myself........Either way I told one scrap yard owner I had plenty of money to purchase his E-scrap and he said what do you consider a lot of money?.....I said to him that I could park my truck and lay on the couch for a year and still be ok.....I then asked him if he could and he said no way to much overhead............

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Level three sounds pretty good.......5000 a month salary??....That's 62,000 a year..There are people that went to college 10 years and don't make that.........what do you consider a lot of money?.....I said to him that I could park my truck and lay on the couch for a year and still be ok.....I then asked him if he could and he said no way to much overhead............

I wouldn't be satisfied with 62k a year ceiling.

Originally Posted by Tcgs

Level 3 is a joke. 62k a year is not a lot of money. After taxes, mortgage, child care, utilities, and considering the amount of work you put into running your own business. You could make more money with just about any other business. Mowing lawns, painting, heck just about any business you could think of.

........Also 62,000 a year goes alot further here in Tennessee than it does where you are from

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

........Also 62,000 a year goes alot further here in Tennessee than it does where you are from

A good example of that, my buddy was working construction here in central pennsylvania, making about $20,000 a year, he was able to get a job on a charter boat in Ocean City, MD. he was going around saying I'm going to be making $40,000 a year fishing! We all were like, Jake, everything is much much much more expensive down there. Rent is triple down there then what it is here. He gets to go fishing the whole year, but he is still pretty much making the same he was while up here in PA.


And by the standards, on the first post, That would put me in Level 2, cause the scrap I get is through craigslist and ads. No trash picking, but I don't agree fully with the categories.


Also guys, There can be a some heated discussions, but lets not turn this in to a heated arguements. I'm sure TCGS didn't mean to offend people, by what he typed, we all make mistakes.

Originally Posted by Kochy

And by the standards, on the first post, That would put me in Level 2, cause the scrap I get is through craigslist and ads. No trash picking, but I don't agree fully with the categories.


Also guys, There can be a some heated discussions, but lets not turn this in to a heated arguements. I'm sure TCGS didn't mean to offend people, by what he typed, we all make mistakes.

Thanks Kochy, These levels are so rigid, if anyone fit into it exactly it would be a miracle, these were not ment to hurt any one.

That being said

I see people asking what the best way to get in is, what to invest in, but what I think they were missing is, IS THIS THE RIGHT INDUSTRY?

Originally Posted by Tcgs

Level 3 is a joke. 62k a year is not a lot of money. After taxes, mortgage, child care, utilities, and considering the amount of work you put into running your own business. You could make more money with just about any other business. Mowing lawns, painting, heck just about any business you could think of.

I'm not sure if you are purposefully going out of your way to offend people, but you are very very wrong indeed.

You are not taking into consideration what their family size is, larger sized families need more money than smaller. You also are not taking into consideration where the person lives, in some places of California for example, 62k per year affords you a very good life for a family of 4, in other places it doesn't even afford you a one room apartment or the ability to support one person.

Because of the way you have said some things, I would like to know what exactly you do for a living, and what level of a scrapper you believe yourself to be. And if you are a level 4, how in the world did you ever make it. That would be a story I would like to hear.

But insulting people who make over 60k a year is not the way to go about getting your point across, whatever point that is you are attempting to make.

Scott

Originally Posted by auminer

You left out my category: Has a ""real"" job, scraps for extra money,

That's just about everyone on here, right?

Nope.

I keep typing out replies, and grandma's voice keeps ringing in my ears: "Son, if you cain't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."

Let me just say: my level's just fine with me. I'm grateful for what I have and have no need to be jealous of what my fellow man has.

That's a pretty good level to be at, as far as I'm concerned.

Originally Posted by auminer

Nope.

I keep typing out replies, and grandma's voice keeps ringing in my ears: "Son, if you cain't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."

Let me just say: my level's just fine with me. I'm grateful for what I have and have no need to be jealous of what my fellow man has.

That's a pretty good level to be at, as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah I already had to go back and delete one of my posts...LOL