35 years a construction/government contracts/commercial lawyer/litigator for a mid-sized firm and still going strong. Before that, I was a civil engineer.
Owner of a structural steel fabrication shop. We have done buildings across the US. Mainly Hospitals, Manufacturing plants, Schools and Casinos. The last 2 years have been all about warehouses for Food and e commerce distribution.
Collecting since age 10. Began dealing part time this year, primarily in moderns to help fund my collecting. It’s been a steep learning curve transitioning from a pure collecting mindset to a business mindset, but it’s been a fun ride so far. Looking forward to continuing to scale up in 2023!
Manager in a grocery store with specialties in resetting, own a postcard business with maps and notecards and worked in radio for a few years, and did some cartooning too. Painted thousands of souvenir beach stones for years- thus the moniker Onastone....what would you like on-a-stone?
I suck up and analyze pond scum. Prior to that, I analyzed mud.
I even wrote a book and papers on pond scum and the bugs that leave their cast skins there in south Florida. Sadly, the other people who could do pond scum analysis in the US have passed away. So, I'm the 'Last of the scum sucking Mohicans.'
Too bad. It's perhaps the most sensitive and efficient method for assessing water quality in freshwater marshes, but apparently the taxonomy is too daunting for biologists these days. Much like learning die marriages for cherry picking, you have to do your homework before it starts paying off for you.
44 years in Quality Control, several companies, several job titles, started as a parts inspector for jet engines now corporate Quality Manager for a MWD/LWD/Directional Drilling manufacturer for oilfield. Retirement is around the corner.
Gene
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of: Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960 My Ebay
37 years local Government in DPW. Last twelve years as Director of Public Works. Hoping to call it a career in 2-3 years. Then want to volunteer helping cancer patients.
Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
Spent my teen years working as busboy in some pretty nice restaurants and later ditched that to work in furniture refinishing. That evolved into custom interior refinishing and eventually my own business house painting.
A passion for photography eventually led me back to college and then many years working as a photographer, mostly in medicine and the sciences with a lot videography tossed in there. Went back to college at age 47 and transitioned into medical imaging- Radiography. That evolved into both working in the large medical center and a second job teaching radiologic sciences part time in the affiliated college.
Happily retired now and miss that work more than I would have ever imagined!
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
My typical day is an early morning wake up (4:30
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!
@ambro51 said:
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
My typical day is an early morning wake up (4:30
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!
I thought I envied the guys in the aerospace field here (wish I had the branes for that), but this one takes the prize!!! ding ding ding winnah winnah!!!
@ambro51 said:
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!
Very nice.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn fairly recently that Clemson University had a Bachelor's program for Turfgrass and mighty impressed learning about all the behind the scenes activities that keep them so well manicured.
Cheers.
Auto mechanic for most of the past 30 years. New title is quality control manager for 2 auto repair locations. I still get my hands dirty every day, but most of my job consists of babysitting adults.
Oh, and for the last 10 or so years I've been one of them "wannabe coin dealers" mentioned in another thread.
I usually say I am a disabled ditch digger but like everything in my life my working years were far more complex than that. I'm very energetic, love almost all work, and have a knack for understanding interrelated systems and processes. I've always been a good man to have around and usually gravitated to where problems exist in various industry. Engineers are worthless where problems are caused by practices and complex systems. Modern industry is so well designed and engineered it takes the cooperation of every employee to mess them up. Few can imagine how inefficiently industry is operated.
@cladking said:
...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.
If that was addressed to me, then yes- I was the very first person hired to work at the hotel before it opened its doors on February 1, 2014. And I’m also the only original employee left who’s been there since the beginning, aside from the chief engineer.
@cladking said:
...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.
If that was addressed to me, then yes- I was the very first person hired to work at the hotel before it opened its doors on February 1, 2014. And I’m also the only original employee left who’s been there since the beginning, aside from the chief engineer.
Oh. That's great but I thought you had been at the same place even longer.
@cladking said:
Oh. That's great but I thought you had been at the same place even longer.
I did previously work for the other two Sea Island sister resorts (the swankier, five-star Cloister and Lodge). And the King and Prince Resort on St. Simons, at the beach. Though only about nine years in this position, it is my third tour of duty with Sea Island Company.
@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!
I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!
I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.
@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!
I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.
What we have here is a failure to communicate lol.
We just need a Good Ole War and a draft system in place to put all these lowlife thugs back to work with a rifle in their hand. Give them something to do that they’re pretty good at, mucking it up.
edit: My apologies, was that too harsh? I was still throwing my coffee back when I read that.
I've said that for years now. Not too harsh at all.
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35 years a construction/government contracts/commercial lawyer/litigator for a mid-sized firm and still going strong. Before that, I was a civil engineer.
Tom
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Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
The bat did it!!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
26 years as a high school science teacher
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
High school, sometimes do some well-paying yardwork when the weather's right.
Young Numismatist
Owner of a structural steel fabrication shop. We have done buildings across the US. Mainly Hospitals, Manufacturing plants, Schools and Casinos. The last 2 years have been all about warehouses for Food and e commerce distribution.
Yes, I have some feedback. The food is too large, I can't eat it. If you could become a normal size food company that would be swell.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Blame it on inflation
Latin American Collection
I have just the opposite complaint............................Shrinkflation!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Ex-banker, now in finance for an energy company.
Collecting since age 10. Began dealing part time this year, primarily in moderns to help fund my collecting. It’s been a steep learning curve transitioning from a pure collecting mindset to a business mindset, but it’s been a fun ride so far. Looking forward to continuing to scale up in 2023!
Manager in a grocery store with specialties in resetting, own a postcard business with maps and notecards and worked in radio for a few years, and did some cartooning too. Painted thousands of souvenir beach stones for years- thus the moniker Onastone....what would you like on-a-stone?
Design electrical distribution systems for businesses, subdivisions, and anything else they tell me I have to do.
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
I suck up and analyze pond scum. Prior to that, I analyzed mud.
I even wrote a book and papers on pond scum and the bugs that leave their cast skins there in south Florida. Sadly, the other people who could do pond scum analysis in the US have passed away. So, I'm the 'Last of the scum sucking Mohicans.'
Too bad. It's perhaps the most sensitive and efficient method for assessing water quality in freshwater marshes, but apparently the taxonomy is too daunting for biologists these days. Much like learning die marriages for cherry picking, you have to do your homework before it starts paying off for you.
Favorite oxymoron: "clean coal"
CIO for 30 years.
Law
Indian Head $10 Gold Date Set Album
I work in a coin shop.
My YouTube Channel
I paid my self first for 38 years...retired in 2017 at the age of 57 1/2
Worked as a truck driver for a beverage company
44 years in Quality Control, several companies, several job titles, started as a parts inspector for jet engines now corporate Quality Manager for a MWD/LWD/Directional Drilling manufacturer for oilfield. Retirement is around the corner.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
33 years as an electrical technician building and troubleshooting high precision CNC jig grinders. Now on SSD.
"yes, that's part of the victim's skull still attached to the bat"
I always assumed there were more doctors and lawyers here. I'm pleasantly surprised to read the interesting diversity of jobs.
37 years local Government in DPW. Last twelve years as Director of Public Works. Hoping to call it a career in 2-3 years. Then want to volunteer helping cancer patients.
So you mean people don't kill people, bat kill people?! 😂
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I manage financial risk for a hedge fund.
Spent my teen years working as busboy in some pretty nice restaurants and later ditched that to work in furniture refinishing. That evolved into custom interior refinishing and eventually my own business house painting.
A passion for photography eventually led me back to college and then many years working as a photographer, mostly in medicine and the sciences with a lot videography tossed in there. Went back to college at age 47 and transitioned into medical imaging- Radiography. That evolved into both working in the large medical center and a second job teaching radiologic sciences part time in the affiliated college.
Happily retired now and miss that work more than I would have ever imagined!
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
My typical day is an early morning wake up (4:30
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!
I thought I envied the guys in the aerospace field here (wish I had the branes for that), but this one takes the prize!!!
ding ding ding winnah winnah!!!
Very nice.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn fairly recently that Clemson University had a Bachelor's program for Turfgrass and mighty impressed learning about all the behind the scenes activities that keep them so well manicured.
Cheers.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Retired after 30 years in the commercial nuclear power industry.
I sold my business about 4 years ago.
I currently work at Lowes as a plumbing specialist.
I have started to pursue a career creating works of art in the field of numismatics.
Here is an example of my work. I currently have a thread going where I am offering limited edition prints at a reduced price.
Robert Julian
https://www.facebook.com/The-Lincoln-Cent-Society-100642398772232/?ref=page_internal
https://lincolncentsociety.wixsite.com/thelincolncentsoci-1?fbclid=IwAR0CZj-XEHNxKBhu2jnrzzE66P3kce1SEI_KXDNOM_iLw_KZVcVleSLrTBc
I write grants applications for local governments and help them comply with Federal and/or State rules. Started in 1977 - self employed since 1996.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163
From 1984 to 2010 a self-employed gemologist/diamond grader/jewelry appraiser.
2010 to present, retired and a golf fanatic.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
I am an attorney/litigator (which may explain some of my posts
)
Auto mechanic for most of the past 30 years. New title is quality control manager for 2 auto repair locations. I still get my hands dirty every day, but most of my job consists of babysitting adults.
Oh, and for the last 10 or so years I've been one of them "wannabe coin dealers" mentioned in another thread.
My Ebay Store
I make pretty blueprints for commercial and industrial buildings in 2d and make 3d BIM models.
Retired bank trust officer. I managed other peoples' money and helped some spendthrifts preserve their assets.
My job description.
Medically retired from the USAF in 2018. Currently I’m a volunteer FF and back in school for my RN/BSN.
I usually say I am a disabled ditch digger but like everything in my life my working years were far more complex than that. I'm very energetic, love almost all work, and have a knack for understanding interrelated systems and processes. I've always been a good man to have around and usually gravitated to where problems exist in various industry. Engineers are worthless where problems are caused by practices and complex systems. Modern industry is so well designed and engineered it takes the cooperation of every employee to mess them up. Few can imagine how inefficiently industry is operated.
I am the M-F night auditor for the Inn at Sea Island, on Saint Simons Island, GA.
Basically, I am singlehandedly the entire overnight staff for that 85-room boutique hotel, from 11 PM to 7 AM on weeknights.
...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.
If that was addressed to me, then yes- I was the very first person hired to work at the hotel before it opened its doors on February 1, 2014. And I’m also the only original employee left who’s been there since the beginning, aside from the chief engineer.
Oh. That's great but I thought you had been at the same place even longer.
I did previously work for the other two Sea Island sister resorts (the swankier, five-star Cloister and Lodge). And the King and Prince Resort on St. Simons, at the beach. Though only about nine years in this position, it is my third tour of duty with Sea Island Company.
@ambro51 - we do a lot of golf here, too, of course. Just finished hosting the RSM Classic.
(I don't play, myself. But it's big business here.)
Office equipment dealer, we sell and service Bizhub, Canon, and Sharp copiers and printers.
Horticultural Latin has been my second language for 50 years.
Been retired almost 2 years after 37 years working in metal heat treating. Before that 9 years in the Marine Corps.
I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Don't worry, i can't tell if I'm serious or not.
I've said that for years now. Not too harsh at all.