Also called: Shredding Truck Business Owner, Secure Document Destruction Owner
Owns trucks with industrial shredders that destroy confidential papers and hard drives on site for doctors, banks and law offices.
Your shred truck pulls up at a dental office, empties locked bins into the shredder in the back and shows the office manager the paper being cut to confetti. You sell contracts to new clients, run a community shred day for a bank and sell the shredded paper to a recycling mill.
Owner profit; franchise and truck costs are high to start.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma; a CDL helps for larger trucks.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Self-taught, Certification. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Business Administration.
Growing about average. Privacy laws keep demand steady, though offices use less paper.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Less office paper shrinks the market over time; trusted on-site service and hard-drive destruction stay human.
Classes: Business class, Computer science, Auto shop.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-1021.
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