She often leaves it on after she leaves work, uses it during the drive back to her Maple Hill residence and remembers it just when she slides out of the motorist's seat as well as bumps her head.
She's glad she still has it on.
"Safety initially," she stated with a smile framed by pigtails in strict braids.
Underneath the 22-year-old's helmet is among the few ladies in the profession.
Cochran is in her first year of a drain instruction with Daytona State University.
She's currently functioning five days a week on the Daytona Rising project at Daytona International Speedway where she invests her time installing components, laying pipes, soldering water lines, as well as sometimes going to get a ladder since, at only 5 feet, she's also brief to get to particular locations.
She is bordered by water pipes, sinks, men as well as tools. Great deals of guys.
Of the virtually 800 building workers currently at the Speedway, regarding 15 are women. Cochran is the only girl plumbing technician in the bunch.
In 2014, the Bureau of Effort Statistics stated 9.8 million people working in the construction industry. Of these, 872,000 of them, concerning 9 percent, were females. Women are even much less stood for in the plumbing system occupation-- just 1.1 percent, baseding on 2013 information from the Work Bureau.
