please no one take offence at this: Except for maybe 10 years of my life I hafe been self employed, and have owned several business of many different types. One of the problems with this is that you are your own boss. You must treat each business like you have a boss above you, forcing you to operate like a normal business.
In the case of scrapping this is perticularly important because of the freedom it provides. There are no regular hours required, you can start at 9 in the morning or 2 in the morning. you can work 2 hours a day or 20 hrs a day, one day a week or 8 days a week. this creates several problems. If you dont put in the hours you dont make money. If you put in too many hours you burn out. Also Murphys law effects scrapping more then any other endever. For example you get a niceload and pull into a crappy yard and blow 3 tires, or the truck breaks down or what ever, life just happens. The scrapping life is not for every body, it takes a certain kind of person, it is almost like some are just natural born scrappers. I dosent make you any better or any worse of a person if you make it or not, it just is.
One of the traps I find my self fall into is , I have nothing else to do so, I find myself working untill I can work any more, days and some time weeks on end taking no time off. then find my self losing intrest, it is not loss of intrest it is burn out. I believe if you force your self to keep regular hours, and regular days off reguardless of the work load, you find your self looking forward to going back to work after those days off. Just my .02
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