She sometimes leaves it on after she gets off job, wears it during the drive back to her Oak Hill residence and remembers it simply when she slides out of the vehicle driver's seat as well as bumps her head.
After that she rejoices she still has it on.
"Security initially," she stated with a smile mounted by pigtails in strict braids.
Underneath the 22-year-old's helmet is among minority girls in the career.
Cochran is in her initial year of a plumbing apprenticeship with Daytona State College.
She's currently functioning five days a week on the Daytona Increasing task at Daytona International Speedway where she invests her time setting up installations, laying pipelines, soldering water lines, and often running to snatch a ladder considering that, at just five feet, she's also brief to reach particular locations.
She is surrounded by water pipes, sinks, tools as well as guys. Bunches of males.
Of the virtually 800 construction employees presently at the Speedway, concerning 15 are women. Cochran is the only girl plumber in the bunch.
In 2014, the Bureau of Work Statistics reported 9.8 million people operating in the building industry. Of these, 872,000 of them, about 9 percent, were females. Females are even less stood for in the plumbing system career-- just 1.1 percent, according to 2013 information from the Effort Bureau.
