I am a 53 year old single woman who's been hauling scrap full time for 6 years and I LOVE it!
I spent 12 yrs in banking, another 12 in office management, even ran a daycare for 5 years. Then I went back to college and upgraded my office skills by taking a year of full time classes in Business Management and Marketing and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. and realized I really hated being locked up in an office all day. I had done landscaping for extra cash while in school but needed a truck.
Then I got offered an interim job driving the delivery truck for an auto wrecker, and loved it!
As that was winding down I knew I wanted my own truck and thought I'd pay for it by doing landscaping, rubbish removal, deliveries, anything but haul scrap! There was no way I wanted to be associated with a profession with such a bad reputation, beside I was a "giirly girly" and knew nothing about scrap. But as it turned out people kept offering me scrap jobs, the bills were piling up so I relented and took a job cleaning up a yard of a man retiring from the garage door business. I was hooked!!
It was quite the learning curve but I've done ok and I have never enjoyed a job more. Every day is a treasure hunt, you never know what you'll find, who you”ll meet and you pick your own hours. I love to meet new people and chat, my dogs ride with me every day and I love being known as the Lady Witha Truck. It”s all I do now. My mother still thinks I should get a "real" job haha but I stopped listening to my mom years ago!
