She sometimes leaves it on after she leaves work, wears it during the drive back to her Oak Hill house as well as remembers it just when she slides out of the vehicle driver's seat as well as bumps her head.
Then she rejoices she still has it on.
"Safety initially," she stated with a smile framed by pigtails in strict pigtails.
Underneath the 22-year-old's helmet is among the few women in the career.
Cochran is in her very first year of a plumbing apprenticeship with Daytona State University.
She's currently functioning 5 days a week on the Daytona Rising task at Daytona International Speedway where she spends her time mounting installations, laying pipelines, soldering water lines, as well as in some cases going to get hold of a ladder considering that, at simply 5 feet, she's also short to reach specific areas.
She is surrounded by water pipes, sinks, tools and also males. Bunches of men.
Of the almost 800 building workers currently at the Speedway, concerning 15 are ladies. Cochran is the only female plumbing professional in the lot.
In 2014, the Bureau of Work Statistics reported 9.8 million individuals operating in the building industry. Of these, 872,000 of them, about 9 percent, were women. Ladies are less represented in the drain career-- just 1.1 percent, baseding on 2013 information from the Labor Bureau.
