Others are questioning some of your choices around this so I thought I’d weigh in a little with my experience. I never sold directly but I did work for a compa

Others are questioning some of your choices around this so I thought I’d weigh in a little with my experience. I never sold directly but I did work for a company earlier in my career that served high amp tractor trailer generators, power distribution equipment (later the department I ended up bootstrapping for them), lighting, and grip equipment to the film industry. Early on my time there I was tasked with unloading and either stripping down or full on demolishing multiple 50 ft tractor trailers stacked to the ceiling loads of old stands (scrap metal), lamps (scrap metal, wiring, ceramic housings, aluminum housings, electronics), and high-amp ballasts for old Xenon and HMI lamps (a lot of electronics including some pretty hefty transformers. I have a stupid story about almost killing myself crippling a 20year old capacitor in one of those things...). I worked on that for at least 60hrs a week for many weeks at not a great wage but they willingly paid me a lot of overtime to do it. A lot of those parts weren’t going into new products but repairing high value equipment that the longer it all lived the more profitable it was. They’re probably still using some of that stuff. I would have never thought to have started a business doing it though! I think most places are more willing to exploit young employees for it.