@d9lowe said:
I work in paper converting. I make paper towels and toilet paper for a living!! Started stacking 7 years ago, into numismatics for the last 2.
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Was it true that tp was in short supply when Covid came around during the summer?
I know at the beginning everyone was stockpiling.
We were definitely running full blast, but still had warehouses full of the stuff. It was more of a distribution issue. Its funny, we had to cut back production a few months ago because no one was buying it. Lol
@DoubleDime said:
I recently retired after 37 years in metal heat treating. Before this it was 9 years in the Marines. I've been collecting since 1971.
@ironmanl63 said:
Union Ironworker out of Chicago Local 63.
Hell yeah brotha!. I've been non union for two years but just signed some papers a few weeks ago and gonna be out in the field for the indy local 22 !
I've put a lot of pipe in the ground around Indy, moved back to Michigan in 2015 though.
Awesome!, I seen you made a comment about drilling.
There's a job goin on at the naval base where there drilling a 350+ft hole to test the propulsion on missiles. You ever done something like that . That would be pretty cool to see someone dig that massive of a hole.
no, my holes are all horizontal, pulling back pipe or cable.
I’m turning 65 this year with 25 years with my current employer. I’m just a blue collar worker. My title is technician and I work on welding equipment for the industry. Welding machines, burning tables, robots etc. Something new every day and I love it. I was in the right place at the right time. 25 years ago our stock was trading at $4 a share in 1997. After rolling over a small 401k and contributions the company sold at $143 a share in 2015. Working stiff makes good. The American dream. Now I have disposable income for my passion, art and a few coins here and there.
For everyone in law enforcement and military from the bottom of my heart, Thank you all for your service.
W.C.Fields "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
This type of thread has been posted periodically since I joined the forums in 2004.
They are always a very interesting read. The breadth and depth of the varied work lives of forumites never ceases to amaze me.
Vast amounts of knowledge and experience in the public sector, private sector on display.
People working daily with their hands (making something that is physically tangible is a skill I am in awe of), working with their minds and working with both.
One thing in common that they have is being bitten by the coin bug.
I suspect our host also enjoys this type of thread as its provides insight into a group of people dedicated to the hobby.
Looking forward to reading further replies about when people due for a living.
Detective on the unit formerly known as the “gang unit”. Now Its TITAN, which is fitting for Nashville. The investigative team addressing neighborhood shootings. Assist in investigating and arresting violent offenders.
Environmental, Hazardous, and Radioactive, industry since 1983. Started many corporations for many people. My job was to make everyone a millionaire who new of my ability and knowledge and believed in me.. Oh did I mention everyone but me.. I think about it every now and then why I never invested in myself, I guess I never really needed the hassle nor did I ever want to risk it all. I was always paid well and I am content, been with a major environmental company since 2004. I had a lot of fun. Collecting for a long time .. Jim
I'm a public school teacher -- presently a K-8 school librarian and ed tech specialist, after many years teaching high school English literature and composition. I also do a lot of outdoor ed stuff, teaching backpacking & winter hiking, alpine skiing, canoeing, fly fishing, etc. I've been a coin collector since I was eight years old.
Forensic DNA Scientist. Right now I’m doing a lot of screening for male DNA on samples from sexual assault evidence collection kits on a Quantstudio 5 rtPCR instrument using Quantifiler Trio Kits. Also doing some review of Globalfiler autosomal STR results.
12 years in the Army until they medical'ed me out with bad Knee's from running in combat boots. I told them I didn't need to run, would stand and fight, and could prove it after 2 tours in "the Nam" but they threw me out anyway! Went back to night school for 9 years, got a Degree in Construction Management while working in a Architects office as a Draftsman. Retired in 2016 as a Senior Construction Manager and Trouble shooter for a Nationwide Government contractor.
Started collecting Large Canadian Pennies and Fishscale Nickels back when nobody collected Canadian and could buy handfuls of coins for petty cash. Sold both completed sets in 2002 and wish I had kept them, just one of the fishscale nickels (1921) about MS 63, is now worth over twice what I got for both entire sets.....Sigh! Now my son and I are collecting high grade Wheat cents and Morgans. I don't imagine I will ever finish the Morgan set with the price of rare Morgans being what it is.
I've managed a public radio station for the last 20 years or so. I did a lot of other odd jobs before that in the music industry. I've been collecting coins since I was a kid the 60's. I took a couple decades off but one day I picked up an old box of books at our town dump's swap shop area that had an Indian Head cent collection stashed at the bottom under all the books. It got me started again as I looked them up on the web and came upon this site. I've been hooked again ever since, buying a few things from the mint and buying rolls / CRH'ing from the banks and just plugging along filling the old folders and stacking the silver I lucked upon.
I'm retiring in 4 days at 43. I'm thinking of joining the volunteer FD in the city I'm moving to in South Dakota. I'm paying my house off in cash and going fishing alot since Ill live on a lake.
I've been into coins since my father took to me coin club meetings when I was around 5.
@SanctionII said:
This type of thread has been posted periodically since I joined the forums in 2004.
They are always a very interesting read. The breadth and depth of the varied work lives of forumites never ceases to amaze me.
Vast amounts of knowledge and experience in the public sector, private sector on display.
People working daily with their hands (making something that is physically tangible is a skill I am in awe of), working with their minds and working with both.
One thing in common that they have is being bitten by the coin bug.
I suspect our host also enjoys this type of thread as its provides insight into a group of people dedicated to the hobby.
Looking forward to reading further replies about when people due for a living.
@ricko said: @dagingerbeasttt...Yes... between live shooting and classroom, it does take some time... It is both interesting and rewarding... Cheers, RickO
@DNADave said:
Forensic DNA Scientist. Right now I’m doing a lot of screening for male DNA on samples from sexual assault evidence collection kits on a Quantstudio 5 rtPCR instrument using Quantifiler Trio Kits. Also doing some review of Globalfiler autosomal STR results.
Dave - do you have any Bio-Rad thermal cyclers or reagents in your lab?
R&D software engineer at a FAANG (or I guess FAAMG these days) corporation.
I started collecting around 15 years ago when my grandmother gave me a state quarter album, and more seriously began collecting around 12 years ago. Started with roll searching for silver dimes + metal detecting before transitioning into buying, selling, grading.
@DNADave said:
Forensic DNA Scientist. Right now I’m doing a lot of screening for male DNA on samples from sexual assault evidence collection kits on a Quantstudio 5 rtPCR instrument using Quantifiler Trio Kits. Also doing some review of Globalfiler autosomal STR results.
Dave - do you have any Bio-Rad thermal cyclers or reagents in your lab?
@DNADave said:
Forensic DNA Scientist. Right now I’m doing a lot of screening for male DNA on samples from sexual assault evidence collection kits on a Quantstudio 5 rtPCR instrument using Quantifiler Trio Kits. Also doing some review of Globalfiler autosomal STR results.
Dave - do you have any Bio-Rad thermal cyclers or reagents in your lab?
Tim
mostly thermofisher and qiagen products.
Thanks Dave - sounds like we need to get some salespeople over there.
I guess I'm a jack of all trades. Been self employed the majority of my life. Great Expectations comes to mind when folks look at my beginning and what I am now!
I started college life a Ga. Tech with an eye towards Mechanical Engineering. I was spoiled in HS as I never had to study and worked full time after school. I was overly ambitious and should have been counselled. My 1st quarter I took a class load of 22 hours! There was no way to have enough hours in the day to complete a class load like that at Ga. Tech. Pretty much 1 hour class load equaled 2 or more hours of homework. Needless to say I quit right after midterms. That pissed my parents off big time.
One thing I gathered quickly from that is I would not be happy with a desk type job. After prodding from my parents I thought about it and decided I wanted to go to Ga. and study Geology. Well Ga. wouldn't take me at first because I had dropped out of Tech. So I had to enroll in a smaller school that would accept me. The problem there was they were so small I would have to start with 2nd quarter classes but I hadn't completed the 1st. They suggested I try and Clep test credits for the 1st quarter classes. To give you an idea of what was expected at Ga. Tech, after 1/2 a quarter at Tech I clepped 1st quarter chemistry in the 99 percentile. There was another girl that took it and scored in the low 60's and they accepted it.
Fast forward at Ga. and all I needed to graduate was 2 or 3 quarters of my specialized Geology courses. They were offered once a year in a series. Well a 15 year old kid pulled out in front of me as I was easing past a van on a divided limited access highway and I broadsided him running 60 or so on a motorcycle. I sailed a few hundred yards and landed on my head. Yap severe concussion. Needless to say that put me behind a year on graduating with a degree in Geology.
A few months later my father passed away . He had a very successful timber business. Well my Mom asked me if I wanted to work into taking over the business. Of course I said yes. The problem was she wanted me to graduate from college. So to get out of school fast I transferred into business school for a management degree. That was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. It was so boring to me and it seemed they were just trying to teach common sense. Either you have it or you don't!
Well while I was wasting my time in business school my Mom hooked up with my father's right hand man while he was teaching her about the business. That was what he was supposed to do with me when I got out of school. That never came to pass and they lived happily ever after. I was happy for my mother but I was dumped under the bus. When it became obvious to me I would never move up in my Dad's company I started logging for them. I didn't get a fair shake there either. Yeah my relationship with my stepfather wasn't the best. I did finally make in the logging business, no thanks to them working elsewhere.
Sooner or later it's going to happen in the logging business. I got hurt. So I started hauling logs for other people with my 18 wheeler and sold my other equipment. Then the DOT came in wanting to force all the regulations over the road trucks had on loggers(who were exempt). In all honesty that needed to be done.
So! I decided to hit the road. After a fast learning curve I found a good company to lease onto and made some serious bucks. That lasted about 7 or 8 years and then things started to change. In the mean time I had a small farm and was raising most, if not all of what my family ate. There was no better feeling than sitting down at the dinner table having the satisfaction you raised everything on the table including the beef! That was also when I was starting to do coin shows. Coins shows started interfering with my trucking in the dispatchers eyes. I was driving more than their accountants revealed due to an accounting mistake. It was the end of the year and my dispatcher told me I was going to have to start doing long hauls because my revenue was down(which it was not as I was 1 of the top earners!) I had worked into being home almost every night because the customers requested me. Well, when my dispatcher told me I had to start long hauling again I said I'm glad you told me that. And he said why? I replied because now I don't have to buy a tag for my truck!(which is several thousand bucks for those of you that don't know). I did speak with the owner of the company and basically he admitted mistakes had been made but words had been spoken.
That is when I considered myself semi retired. I became a full time coin dealer. I probably would be 6 feet under if that had not happened. I was around 6 years in to working over 100 hours a week and was really getting burned out! That was over 20 years ago, and when I look back on my life I am very happy with how it turned out in the end!
Residential Mortgage banker and mortgage lending over 25 years now, I am with a Federal bank licensed in all 50 States.
I survived a few turbulent times and literally coached my clients/ borrowers NOT to get bogus mortgages, sub-prime, option ARMs, and all the nonsense loans every lender was pushing into the new century ending with the housing and mortgage collapse in 2007/2008.
Started collecting late 60's , then on and off over the years.
Tried a short stint at dealing coins in late 70's to early 80's then gave up and got a real job.
I am still an active EMT volunteer with a local EMS service in my neighborhood, still do a handful of emergency runs per week, and have seen and felt a lot over this past year with Covid.
Very trying times and takes a toll on the mind and soul. But still at it, and can't see slowing down.
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Chef/restaurant owner
I recently retired after 37 years in metal heat treating. Before this it was 9 years in the Marines. I've been collecting since 1971.
We were definitely running full blast, but still had warehouses full of the stuff. It was more of a distribution issue. Its funny, we had to cut back production a few months ago because no one was buying it. Lol
Thanks
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no, my holes are all horizontal, pulling back pipe or cable.
https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Kenefic-Leo/
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That's fantastic
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It's official now, the members here have the brains and technology that we **could **form our own society
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I’m turning 65 this year with 25 years with my current employer. I’m just a blue collar worker. My title is technician and I work on welding equipment for the industry. Welding machines, burning tables, robots etc. Something new every day and I love it. I was in the right place at the right time. 25 years ago our stock was trading at $4 a share in 1997. After rolling over a small 401k and contributions the company sold at $143 a share in 2015. Working stiff makes good. The American dream. Now I have disposable income for my passion, art and a few coins here and there.
For everyone in law enforcement and military from the bottom of my heart, Thank you all for your service.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I work in engineering for a slot machine manufacturer.
Huh? 🥴
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
Thanks... microbiology has literally taken me around the world a couple of times...
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This type of thread has been posted periodically since I joined the forums in 2004.
They are always a very interesting read. The breadth and depth of the varied work lives of forumites never ceases to amaze me.
Vast amounts of knowledge and experience in the public sector, private sector on display.
People working daily with their hands (making something that is physically tangible is a skill I am in awe of), working with their minds and working with both.
One thing in common that they have is being bitten by the coin bug.
I suspect our host also enjoys this type of thread as its provides insight into a group of people dedicated to the hobby.
Looking forward to reading further replies about when people due for a living.
Nashville PD.
Detective on the unit formerly known as the “gang unit”. Now Its TITAN, which is fitting for Nashville. The investigative team addressing neighborhood shootings. Assist in investigating and arresting violent offenders.
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
That is amazing to me, never would have thought of that job..................but then I have never left the BayState
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@dagingerbeasttt...Yes... between live shooting and classroom, it does take some time... It is both interesting and rewarding... Cheers, RickO
Environmental, Hazardous, and Radioactive, industry since 1983. Started many corporations for many people. My job was to make everyone a millionaire who new of my ability and knowledge and believed in me.. Oh did I mention everyone but me.. I think about it every now and then why I never invested in myself, I guess I never really needed the hassle nor did I ever want to risk it all. I was always paid well and I am content, been with a major environmental company since 2004. I had a lot of fun. Collecting for a long time .. Jim
Currently Middle School substitute teacher. Collecting since mid-60s
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
I'm a public school teacher -- presently a K-8 school librarian and ed tech specialist, after many years teaching high school English literature and composition. I also do a lot of outdoor ed stuff, teaching backpacking & winter hiking, alpine skiing, canoeing, fly fishing, etc. I've been a coin collector since I was eight years old.
I work in a coin shop.
Been collecting since the 1980's off and on...
My YouTube Channel
Forensic DNA Scientist. Right now I’m doing a lot of screening for male DNA on samples from sexual assault evidence collection kits on a Quantstudio 5 rtPCR instrument using Quantifiler Trio Kits. Also doing some review of Globalfiler autosomal STR results.
Very cool! Your plants (Billbergia pyramidalis) are in the genus I specialize in.
12 years in the Army until they medical'ed me out with bad Knee's from running in combat boots. I told them I didn't need to run, would stand and fight, and could prove it after 2 tours in "the Nam" but they threw me out anyway! Went back to night school for 9 years, got a Degree in Construction Management while working in a Architects office as a Draftsman. Retired in 2016 as a Senior Construction Manager and Trouble shooter for a Nationwide Government contractor.
Started collecting Large Canadian Pennies and Fishscale Nickels back when nobody collected Canadian and could buy handfuls of coins for petty cash. Sold both completed sets in 2002 and wish I had kept them, just one of the fishscale nickels (1921) about MS 63, is now worth over twice what I got for both entire sets.....Sigh! Now my son and I are collecting high grade Wheat cents and Morgans. I don't imagine I will ever finish the Morgan set with the price of rare Morgans being what it is.
I used to get a lot of that! ;-)
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I've managed a public radio station for the last 20 years or so. I did a lot of other odd jobs before that in the music industry. I've been collecting coins since I was a kid the 60's. I took a couple decades off but one day I picked up an old box of books at our town dump's swap shop area that had an Indian Head cent collection stashed at the bottom under all the books. It got me started again as I looked them up on the web and came upon this site. I've been hooked again ever since, buying a few things from the mint and buying rolls / CRH'ing from the banks and just plugging along filling the old folders and stacking the silver I lucked upon.
Jim
Retired MBA Financial Manager / Community College Accounting Instructor.
Currently: Numismatic Dealer Shows & Online
I’m a materials engineer, and I’ve been collecting since I was 6 years old.
Business analyst
I own a bait shop and I live in a van down by the river.....
I'm retiring in 4 days at 43. I'm thinking of joining the volunteer FD in the city I'm moving to in South Dakota. I'm paying my house off in cash and going fishing alot since Ill live on a lake.
I've been into coins since my father took to me coin club meetings when I was around 5.
I am a Business Intelligence Developer, started collecting wheat pennies as a kid over 30 years ago.
+1
I am a risk manager for a quantitative hedge fund. It’s certainly been an interesting past 12 months!
I started collecting coins at 10 and seriously at 21.
That's awesome!
I'm a landlord.
I'll celebrate 30 years later this year. I might post something about it then
--Severian the Lame
yolo
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/date-sets/hashtags-prefect-coin-grading-service-1879/album/7621
Based on your profession, I assume that your username intentionally contains pi to three digits?
That’s why we brought machines to you, Boston harbor, etc.
I have been at the same company off and on for the past 27 years, and collecting since 2005.
Current job: Chief Financial Officer for a monastery
Previous job: Chief Financial Officer for a hedge fund
My coin budget has certainly changed!
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.
PM me.
Dave - do you have any Bio-Rad thermal cyclers or reagents in your lab?
Tim
R&D software engineer at a FAANG (or I guess FAAMG these days) corporation.
I started collecting around 15 years ago when my grandmother gave me a state quarter album, and more seriously began collecting around 12 years ago. Started with roll searching for silver dimes + metal detecting before transitioning into buying, selling, grading.
Industrial Real Estate Broker
Started collecting mid late 2000's.
That is correct! It’s a weird place to round it so it isn’t as immediately obvious to most people as 314
Thanks Dave - sounds like we need to get some salespeople over there.
I guess I'm a jack of all trades. Been self employed the majority of my life. Great Expectations comes to mind when folks look at my beginning and what I am now!
I started college life a Ga. Tech with an eye towards Mechanical Engineering. I was spoiled in HS as I never had to study and worked full time after school. I was overly ambitious and should have been counselled. My 1st quarter I took a class load of 22 hours! There was no way to have enough hours in the day to complete a class load like that at Ga. Tech. Pretty much 1 hour class load equaled 2 or more hours of homework. Needless to say I quit right after midterms. That pissed my parents off big time.
One thing I gathered quickly from that is I would not be happy with a desk type job. After prodding from my parents I thought about it and decided I wanted to go to Ga. and study Geology. Well Ga. wouldn't take me at first because I had dropped out of Tech. So I had to enroll in a smaller school that would accept me. The problem there was they were so small I would have to start with 2nd quarter classes but I hadn't completed the 1st. They suggested I try and Clep test credits for the 1st quarter classes. To give you an idea of what was expected at Ga. Tech, after 1/2 a quarter at Tech I clepped 1st quarter chemistry in the 99 percentile. There was another girl that took it and scored in the low 60's and they accepted it.
Fast forward at Ga. and all I needed to graduate was 2 or 3 quarters of my specialized Geology courses. They were offered once a year in a series. Well a 15 year old kid pulled out in front of me as I was easing past a van on a divided limited access highway and I broadsided him running 60 or so on a motorcycle. I sailed a few hundred yards and landed on my head. Yap severe concussion. Needless to say that put me behind a year on graduating with a degree in Geology.
A few months later my father passed away
. He had a very successful timber business. Well my Mom asked me if I wanted to work into taking over the business. Of course I said yes. The problem was she wanted me to graduate from college. So to get out of school fast I transferred into business school for a management degree. That was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. It was so boring to me and it seemed they were just trying to teach common sense. Either you have it or you don't!
Well while I was wasting my time in business school my Mom hooked up with my father's right hand man while he was teaching her about the business. That was what he was supposed to do with me when I got out of school. That never came to pass and they lived happily ever after. I was happy for my mother but I was dumped under the bus. When it became obvious to me I would never move up in my Dad's company I started logging for them. I didn't get a fair shake there either. Yeah my relationship with my stepfather wasn't the best. I did finally make in the logging business, no thanks to them working elsewhere.
Sooner or later it's going to happen in the logging business. I got hurt. So I started hauling logs for other people with my 18 wheeler and sold my other equipment. Then the DOT came in wanting to force all the regulations over the road trucks had on loggers(who were exempt). In all honesty that needed to be done.
So! I decided to hit the road. After a fast learning curve I found a good company to lease onto and made some serious bucks. That lasted about 7 or 8 years and then things started to change. In the mean time I had a small farm and was raising most, if not all of what my family ate. There was no better feeling than sitting down at the dinner table having the satisfaction you raised everything on the table including the beef! That was also when I was starting to do coin shows. Coins shows started interfering with my trucking in the dispatchers eyes. I was driving more than their accountants revealed due to an accounting mistake. It was the end of the year and my dispatcher told me I was going to have to start doing long hauls because my revenue was down(which it was not as I was 1 of the top earners!) I had worked into being home almost every night because the customers requested me. Well, when my dispatcher told me I had to start long hauling again I said I'm glad you told me that. And he said why? I replied because now I don't have to buy a tag for my truck!(which is several thousand bucks for those of you that don't know). I did speak with the owner of the company and basically he admitted mistakes had been made but words had been spoken.
That is when I considered myself semi retired. I became a full time coin dealer. I probably would be 6 feet under if that had not happened. I was around 6 years in to working over 100 hours a week and was really getting burned out! That was over 20 years ago, and when I look back on my life I am very happy with how it turned out in the end!
PS That's the cliff notes version of me!
Residential Mortgage banker and mortgage lending over 25 years now, I am with a Federal bank licensed in all 50 States.
I survived a few turbulent times and literally coached my clients/ borrowers NOT to get bogus mortgages, sub-prime, option ARMs, and all the nonsense loans every lender was pushing into the new century ending with the housing and mortgage collapse in 2007/2008.
Started collecting late 60's , then on and off over the years.
Tried a short stint at dealing coins in late 70's to early 80's then gave up and got a real job.
I am still an active EMT volunteer with a local EMS service in my neighborhood, still do a handful of emergency runs per week, and have seen and felt a lot over this past year with Covid.
Very trying times and takes a toll on the mind and soul. But still at it, and can't see slowing down.
Yes.
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
High end Restaurant Chef for 25+ Years, Retired from that world 12/19 and have not looked back since.
Collecting since 2016