Jaygopal Metal Industries

If you look for Jaygopal Metal Industries, you’ll find us at 5, Sahajanand Estate. It’s one of those places where all the buildings look the same, so you have to keep an eye on the numbers. We are a small metal shop. We have a few big cutters and some welding gear. The floor is usually covered in little bits of scrap metal, and you have to be careful where you step. It’s a family-run kind of thing, so there’s always some talking or arguing going on about how to do a job. We handle a lot of metal sheets, and they are heavy and awkward to move. My back usually aches by the end of the day. The estate is always busy with people moving things back and forth on trolleys. We share a wall with a printing shop, and sometimes we can hear their presses going while we are trying to work. We don’t have a website or anything like that; people usually just hear about us from someone else in the trade. We just do the work as it comes in. Sometimes we have a lot to do and have to work through the weekend, and other times it’s a bit slow and we just sit around cleaning the tools or fixing the machines. It’s a simple life, really. We just keep the metal moving and try to stay out of the way of the big trucks that block the estate roads.