More of a reintroduction...

Good evening ya'll, some of you may remember me, most of you probably don't. I joined up back 2011 when I had initially got into scrap metal, eventually I narrowed it down to E-scrap (Not much space), and was looking to open a small business. Instead I got busy with school, have been doing the scrap thing while doing school, just in a more passive manner and as a result spent less time on the computer and here.

That said, now I'm back, a little more experienced in scrap and the proud new owner of a BS in Electrical Engineering with plenty of free time to pursue pretty much anything, garage is getting cleaned up this weekend, work bench is getting organized, and it's time to start breaking things down again.

So... HI! *waves*

Welcome back!

Just wondering---won't you find it a little easier to pursue the EE angle as a 9-5 and scrap on the side? I did a ME 'way too many years ago to admit and it did me good until a couple of years ago.

Not meaning to be nosy--just getting any sort of engineering degree is pretty hard work....

Jon.

Welcome back, I didn' know you before, but I'm glad to see you now. I'm fairly new here. Well, fairly new to opening my mouth. I spent a while on here just reading.

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Originally Posted by sawmilleng

Welcome back!

Just wondering---won't you find it a little easier to pursue the EE angle as a 9-5 and scrap on the side? I did a ME 'way too many years ago to admit and it did me good until a couple of years ago.

Not meaning to be nosy--just getting any sort of engineering degree is pretty hard work....

Jon.

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I currently have a 9-5 related to my first degree (CAD), and am trying to get into a design position. This is just a hobby that I would like to eventually switch over to, the plus side is all the electronic bits and pieces I get now.

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Originally Posted by phred59

Welcome back, I didn' know you before, but I'm glad to see you now. I'm fairly new here. Well, fairly new to opening my mouth. I spent a while on here just reading.

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Thanks... glad to be back.

Welcome back and congrats on the new degree.

Welcome back and congrats on having a job and a new degree. Mike

http://youtu.be/mPaed8I3V1A


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Congrats on the BS. Welcome back. "Fist bump"

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Originally Posted by KzScrapper

Welcome back and congrats on the new degree.

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Originally Posted by miked

Welcome back and congrats on having a job and a new degree. Mike

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Thanks the both of you

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Originally Posted by BroJer

http://youtu.be/mPaed8I3V1A


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HAHAHA... nice.

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Originally Posted by tski72

Congrats on the BS. Welcome back. "Fist bump"

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*Fist bump* *Hand Explosion*

*pokes his head in*


Well...things got good, then they got bad... now I gotta make em better again.

Since I posted this reintroduction, things at work had started going well, and kept the recycling thing as a hobby that only had a couple customers and kinda drifted away from this forum as I did get into fitness and started spending a lot of free time over thataway. Then things went bad, and by bad I mean really bad.... laid off from work kinda bad.

So I'm here again, and this time instead of simply poking my head in and leaving like last time with the occasional drive-by lurking, I'm close to purchasing the private forum access and decided it's about time to turn the hobby, into a business. The paperwork has been sent off and step one is complete, I figure I've got all the time in the world now, and not much to lose... so let's see what happens.

Good luck! I started my own business as well in ewaste and quickly got in over my head. I had to diversify or die big time! Now I run a very busy and profitable junk removal and clean out business with work everyday and the ewaste is back to side money status even though I still have 8 gaylords in storage and 4 more in my garage that I am slowly working on. My advice is start small and grow organically, ewaste would have succeeded for me but I tried getting too big too fast. Lesson learned! Lol. I wish you the most success and have fun!

That's the plan... I have at least one source of material that I can use as a test run to figure everything out, then I have another possible source for dealing with large amounts of equipment. Between those two, and some time to figure out the ropes, I think I should do ok. I've always had the mentality of letting it grow organically... main reason I never advertised while I was working.

I missed your introduction, and your re-introduction!

The key is more than scrap value components for E-Waste. You'll want to keep these parts dry and undamaged, and they'll be the profit. I work with more than scrap value components as my career, and look at anything that goes off as scrap as icing on the cake.

Best of luck! Oh, and the private forum access is so worth it!