What do you do for a living? (2022 Edition)
PeakRarities
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The other day, while discussing a variance in decorum at coin shows in another thread, I had revealed that I work in sales. I was sent a pm by another forum member informing me that he too worked in the field, and was curious how many collectors in sales professions were on here. We had shared some thoughts the prevalence of collecting in some professions vs others, and I thought it would be interesting topic for a thread.
Upon my search of similar previous threads on here , I came across another one titled the same. It was 20 years ago in 2002, and it ran 14 pages long. As we all know, the landscape of contributing members has changed immensely in that time frame, and I don't think it would be a bad idea to resurrect the topic. I'm well aware of who some of the coin dealers and numismatic experts are on here, but otherwise I'm curious to see how the demographics look.
Up until 2019, I had only worked in blue collar professions - HVAC, Electrical, Septic Installation (lol). I started working as a sales representative for medical products in 2019, and today I own and operate a marketing company that does the same. Your turn now 
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Fire Prevention Inspector II for the State Fire Marshal.
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Middle School Special Ed Math and Science teacher
College instructor for 23 years in Accounting, Finance, and general business classes. Worked as a financial analyst, accountant, controller, and sales manager prior to teaching. I absolutely love my job and get to experience the best of the younger generations! There are some very motivated and highly intelligent young professionals that I have had the pleasure of teaching over the years. I talk about numismatics and precious metals a lot in my Money and Banking, Personal Finance, and Investments classes. I am amazed at how many students are investing in stocks, crypto, and ETF's while going to school. Robinhood, for all its bad press, was a game changer for the younger generation getting started. Many of them have now branched off to more traditional brokerage firms after the GameStop and Robinhood issues a few years back.
Insurance for 35 years. Retired since 2005.
58 years in insurance. Retiring end of this year.
Forty years language teaching—grade school to grad school.
I'm a Production Manager in a foam fabrication facility. A few of the departments that I oversee, we process foam material in a similar way to the way the mint processes coins only at a much slower rate. It has helped me immensely in understanding how the mint produces coins.
Donato
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Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
High school. Enough said.
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Electrical engineer (consulting) and also presently teaching.
jom
Financial Advisor/Investment Portfolio Manager
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Interesting, privatecoin.....My two oldest boys business is Fire Protection. Of course they work with Fire Prevention Inspectors for various county Fire Marshals and the State of California..... All good people... I never really had much input into the business but I had the BIG office and a pretty secretary. It got to be that the only reason I ever went in to the shop was to flirt with my pretty secretary and pick up the mail at the post office. When she left it wasn't the same anymore. Then they hired a new gal....I wasn't impressed.....So I left too....
Previous Secretary
New Hire
HELLO RETIREMENT!
1987 - present. Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) - 24 years AD Air Force.
NDI Process Engineer 10 years.
Part time car parts peddler 22 years.
BST transactions: dbldie55, jayPem, 78saen, UltraHighRelief, nibanny, liefgold, FallGuy, lkeigwin, mbogoman, Sandman70gt, keets, joeykoins, ianrussell (@GC), EagleEye, ThePennyLady, GRANDAM, Ilikecolor, Gluggo, okiedude, Voyageur, LJenkins11, fastfreddie, ms70, pursuitofliberty, ZoidMeister,Coin Finder, GotTheBug, edwardjulio, Coinnmore...
I was in cable television for 20yrs. Went into the oilfield as a sales/serviceman for the last 13 yrs. Knees have gotten too bad to work anymore. Retired to S.S. about 4 months ago.
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Financial Advisor.
Worked Supply Chain for a mining company for 14yrs. Enjoyed that as well.
Semi retired and in transition.
Covid and competition have stymied and whacked my career.
Moving into real estate and real estate photography.
BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out
Software developer since 1986. Electrical Engineer 1982-1986.
Forensic scientist for 28 years.
Student at UIUC's business school. Planning to go into accounting/finance.
Collector
75 Positive BST transactions buying and selling with 45 members and counting!
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This close "|...|" to retirement, but after a very recent "re-deployment" program that may force me to a division other than the one I've worked in for that whole time, it may quickly have to become this close "||".
(Sorry for the gripe, hasnt been fun lately.)
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Have worked on septic systems and nuclear power plants................and everything in between
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Transit bus mechanic retired after 31 years.
Transit bus driver retired after 7 years. COVID almost put bus companies out of business and caused massive service cutbacks which ended my driving career early. More time for message board reading.😊
Another sales guy here also……semi-retired.
Woodworking and panel processing machinery sales for the past 37 years. CNC machining centers, panel saws, edgebanders, and solid wood machinery like shapers, planers, jointers, and moulders.
Holz-her CNC Machining Center
I convert paper into shiny rocks at my LCS. And I work on the website and take photographs.
Custom album maker and numismatic photographer, see my portfolio here: (http://www.donahuenumismatics.com/).
Professional numismatist. Allegedly.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
1956 - 1966 - Worked as a middle child trying to keep peace with four brothers and sisters
1966 - 1971 - Mowed six lawns per week and had a large paper route (grade school - junior high)
1971 - 1974 - Worked at my friend's fathers' restaurant (high school)
1974 - 1979 - Worked in a local dairy (college)
1980 - 1995 - Worked as a Distribution Manager for a bearing company (real life sucks)
1996 - 1996 - Took a year off to travel the US in my VW Jetta GLI (achieved goal of visiting last of all fifty states)
1997 - 1999 - Worked as a General Manager of a Third Party Logistics Center
1999 - 2022 - Worked as a Distribution Manager/Solution Architect at a biopharma company
2023 - ????? - Will work on attempting to outlive my liver
Tim
Oilfield for 40 years. Now unemployed, or maybe unemployable.
End Systemic Elitism - It Takes All Of Us
Software developer for 37 years. Recently retired, I now play with coins, and give people bad stock market advice.
Dave
Independent U.S. coin cataloger for HA. Run my own website (see signature below). Coins, coins, coins (and medal, tokens, etc). It's fun, usually.
Dealing in Canadian and American coins and historical medals.
High school math teacher (just finished my 20th year!)
US and British coin collector, and creator of The Ultimate Chuck E. Cheese's and Showbiz Pizza Place Token & Ticket Guide
Reposting because my previous post disappeared when I tried to link a video showing how softgels are made
I’m V.P. Of R&D at a company that makes Softgel capsules. I’ve been formulating dietary supplements and pharmaceutical products since 1986.
Mr_Spud
Automotive Technician and parts sales 1979-2009
Work boat operator 2009 to present!
Retirement hopefully next year…
This pretty much sums it up for me
41 years helping people and organizations resolve problems that they find themselves in that they have absolutely no ability to handle themselves.
Translation - Practicing real property law (mostly in California), a large part of which is in the area of real property finance and foreclosure.
During my practice of law I have had a couple of cases where valuable personal property was involved (including about 80,000 vintage records that ended up bringing to my client $270,000.00 in sales proceeds; and some collectible coins). Yesterday I participated in a mediation of a real estate case. The mediator is a retired California appellate court justice that I have worked with before. During a break we chatted and he mentioned to me that when he was a practicing lawyer in the 1970s the law firm he worked for handled legal disputes arising from the Redfield hoard of silver dollars. He told me some of the details about his firm being hired, the finding of the coins at Redfield's Reno home, photographs of the coins in the basement of the home and the process of finding a buyer of the coins. Interesting stuff.
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Want to do a STOP RUN or EXIT(0) in early 2024. In non-programming language, retire.
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I'm currently working on the certification program for this one, having already spent years on its design work:
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Federal Government: Human Resources aka HR.
You didn't? He tells us in almost every thread!
I'm kidding (sort of) 😉
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
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Material scientist working in the abrasives/metals industry.
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... wait, which day is it?!!
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