She often leaves it on after she gets off job, wears it throughout the drive back to her Oak Hillside residence as well as remembers it just when she slides out of the driver's seat and bumps her head.
Then she rejoices she still has it on.
"Safety and security first," she said with a smile mounted by pigtails in strict braids.
Below the 22-year-old's helmet is one of the few girls in the profession.
Cochran is in her first year of a drain instruction with Daytona State University.
She's presently functioning 5 days a week on the Daytona Rising task at Daytona International Speedway where she invests her time installing components, laying pipes, soldering water lines, and often going to grab a ladder because, at simply 5 feet, she's as well short to reach specific areas.
She is surrounded by pipes, sinks, tools and males. Bunches of guys.
Of the virtually 800 building employees presently at the Speedway, regarding 15 are women. Cochran is the only female plumbing technician in the lot.
In 2014, the Bureau of Work Statistics stated 9.8 million folks operating in the construction market. Of these, 872,000 of them, about 9 percent, were ladies. Women are even much less stood for in the plumbing system profession-- merely 1.1 percent, baseding on 2013 data from the Work Bureau.
