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Trey Williams

'I wasn't done': Former office furniture salesman is now finding new life for discarded furniture

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Jim Hardaway was a successful salesman for more than three decades. He sold office furniture to government and Fortune 500 clients. But when he stepped down from his job in 2019, he disliked retirement, so he got a new gig: He helps keep old office furniture out of landfills.

It wasn't planned, but Hardaway, 65, found a circular nature to his career he seems more than proud of. What's more, he says, he's nowhere near close to done working.

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