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What would you do?

jmwarrenjmwarren Posts: 155 ✭
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Say you have a job making $150,000 a year. A good secure job. You don't love it, but you don't hate it either. Then you had a chance to go to work for PCGS as a grader for $100,000 a year. Would you give up job security and extra money to get a chance to work within the heirarchy of the hobby you love?

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Working for PCGS as a Grader would also be a job I don't love, but don't hate it either- therefor the only deal left is the money. I'd stick with the 150 G's.

    peacockcoins

  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    I guess that depends on whether you believe in the business they practice in. My answer would be, "no," so I couldn't see doing it for any price...but that's me and my opinion. They are not "hierarchy," they are merely a grading service that many choose not to use or even pay attention to at all, like myself. But if that'swhat you would want to do for a living, I say "go for it."
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  • CLASSICSCLASSICS Posts: 1,164 ✭✭
    sitting in a dark room all day with no windows, doing the same thing over and over, i think your love of coins would soon become very boring, for me, the amount of money that i would make, would have no bearing on it. no thanks.
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    A person would go nuts doing that all day every day all their life.
    The burned out coin graders leave and get jobs putting those little stickers on fruit.
    At least there they have a little something different to do once in a while when they switch from plums to avacados or pears.
    No way would I ever take a full time job as a coin grader.

    Ray
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Ray,

    Please quit making fun of me - how did you know what I did the first year after I stopped grading at NGCimage

  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Hobbies aren't fun when they become work.image
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    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    I agree 100% that this would be monotonous. I would love to do it for a week, then I would go completely bonkers. 8 seconds per coin, all day long. Maybe for $200K/yr, with partial ownership in the company via a fat stock option package, then we could talk.
    Tom

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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    It would be like every other job I had, the boss would tell me to do something stupid and I would tell him you do it and I would get fired.
    No, I wouldn't want a J-O-B having to grade coins.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • gemseekergemseeker Posts: 276 ✭
    That means that I have less money to buy more coins? NO WAY JOSE
    Recommended reading - The PCGS Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection and The Coin Collector's Survival Manual and NCI Grading Guide
    For the Morgan collectors - The Morgan and Peace encyclopedia by Van Allen and Mallis

    What would your slabbed coins be worth if the grading services went out of business? What would your coins be worth if the Internet was taken offline for good?

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