Pinch me - I'm losing interest in coins.

GoldCoinLover

I haven't posted here in a few days, sorry bout that.

Anyways, I think I'm losing interest in coins. Let me explain what has been going on lately. (Please dont make fun of me like saying I"m begging for stuff) I don't think anyone cares -- sorry sinc ethis is not exactly coin related.

I got a job at McDonalds, my first job. I'm 17 now. I've been working at McDonalds since Saturday, and have made approximately $108. I get paid biweekly. I'm worried because we are moving in 17 days. I don't know how I will get enough courage to say to the mexican manager I am moving (the mexican managers there are REALLY mean)

This forum has really helped me so much. I've learend so much, from what numismatic means to what VAM and pop means.

Ever since I was a kid I used to go down to the coin store and buy coins. I always liked numisatics. I used to be addicted badly to an online game -- I'm not anymore , they banned me for good from there. I can now get on with my life.

I'm moving to Pheonix, by the way. I don't know what I want to be right now. If I wanted to be famous I could either
A) Figure out some new theorum in mathematics and win a fortune and be as popular as Albert Einstein
Be in the music business
C) Be an actor
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So my odds for being famous don't look too good. However I want to be a nuclear engineer. There's a time and place for math, and sometimes I just don't want to think about it .. it drives me nuts, especially the higher math like calculus.

Another job I am looking into is a software developer working at Nintendo in America or Nintendo of Japan. I am learning japanese, and plan to visit tokyo when I graduate. But I don't really have as much interest in coins as I used to. I mean, its not an obession like it used to be.

At any rate, today is the 1st of March. I've offically been and learned from this forum for 1 year now.

Prethen

I hope this isn't catchy!

ER

Hate to do that to you. You might get pi$$ed off and beat the crap out of me.

TheRaven

I find it kinda goes in cycles for me at least, have more interest at some times then others.


I would say in Japan you might get some interesting things coinage wise.

GoldCoinLover

<< <i>I find it kinda goes in cycles for me at least, have more interest at some times then others.


I would say in Japan you might get some interesting things coinage wise. >>



Yeah. I'd love to go to a coin show. never been to one.

Spiffy469

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Jeff

CoinResource

Interest can go in cycles. Good luck with the move and all. -cr

ms70

You might find yourself moving away from the hobby for awhile like so many others, including myself, have done. In this hobby it almost
seems to be a natural thing and is spoken of quite often. Don't worry- If you leave for now you will come back sooner or later. It also
seems that those who leave come back with an ever stronger love for coins.

TheRock

Interested in a job in MN. I like your honesty, do not be ashamed. You WILL succeed, you just need some focus. If your interested in a sales position, PM me.

flaminio

If you give it up, sell me your $5 Indian

Hedger

Tell that Mexican manager to pound sand.

ccex

Good luck with the move!

I used to want to be an orchestral conductor like Leonard Bernstein, and later a trumpeter, composer or pianist as famous as Miles Davis or Thelonious Monk. (There were also times in high school or graduate school that I thought I wanted to become a successful coin dealer.) When I was denied trumpet lessons during freshman orientation at a college/music conservatory I decided to get the easiest major for me, which was in my case mathematics, completed before my 3rd year in college. A math major made it real easy for me to get another major in economics, while I spent my energy exploring the minds of the best professors my college offered (German History, Ethnomusicology, Jazz History, symbolic logic, Surrealism, and other topics without any connection to a possible career.) I went on to teaching math in the Peace Corps (where I learned to speak Ashanti Twi) and at Indiana University (where I taught calculus). Calculus was a breeze for me, (thanks to good teachers in high school) compared to linear algebra, which almost turned me away from math for good.

Eventually I decided to pay the bills by making people's obsolete personal computers meaningful for other people. My time teaching the intricacies of technological debris to other people has given me pleasure and sometimes enough income to put together a few nice sets of U.S. coins, even though the field of "used personal computer refurbishing" didn't exist when I was in college (1977-81) Attention to detail and retention of trivia (as taught on this forum) along with teaching skills (also alive here) have paid the bills for me.

You will never be another Einstein (even though he was horrible at math as a child) and I will never be Thelonious Monk. Still, I think your McDonald's days will be just a footnote in your life, as were my days as a "little green sprout" in the Jolly Green Giant's vegetable canning factory, where I worked at your age. If you are indeed losing interest in coins, I hope you do not lose interest in either your attention to the finest details or your asking questions about your latest finds. Numismatics cultivated these two traits in me during high school, which let me get through college easily. I've eschewed conventional career advice for 25 years and can still pay the mortgage based on what I see that casual lookers and workers don't. At age 46, I have been away from coin collecting completely for periods of 8 and 12 years, only to return to this hobby/racket with renewed interest.

Sorry for the lenghty soapbox, but I'd hate to see you sell your soul or your coin collection to pay those who advise you what to do next. You have learned much here, and I hope it will take you far, despite how you now see your future.

relayer

Homer Simpson works at a nuclear power plant and he's famous

Peaceman

1 in every 5 Americans will have worked for McDonalds in their lifetime...... yes, I am a statistic...

Sequitur

Now I'm conviced: alt id.

oreville

Hang in there! Your interest in coins will rise and ebb. It is not unusual to see it ebb. Keep in mind that preserving the coins you have collected as a teenager will bring a smile of joy when you get to look at it in the various stages of your adulthood. From a 20 year old young adult, 30 year old "over the hill" adult, 40 and then 50 year old middle aged adult, etc.

You should have seen the look I saw in the eyes of a 87 year old client of mine when he brought in his coins to show me just last week! The coins were not all that "special" but to him they reminded him of the joy he had in his youth. It was an incredible sight!

pharmer

<< <i>Now I'm conviced: alt id. >>



Why? Just curious.

Sequitur

Why? Just curious.

Search the forums. All will become clear, from midwestern "troubled teen" boot camps to violent confrontations to strapping fireworks on a rabbit for a purported NASA internship. No, I'm not making this up (but I think someone else is) -- it's all right here if the mods haven't deleted it, and yes, they have deleted a bunch.

pharmer

I have heard mention, but they did occur before my time. Not doubting, really was curious.

Wondo

Hey,

I' was once a YN who lost interest and then I became a nuclear engineer! We got smoething in common.


Anyway, coins and almost everything hobby related is a luxury, to be enjoyed. Life is never ending and evolving. The coins will always be there waiting for you.

John

Myqqy

Now I'm conviced: alt id.

I don't know whether to hope for that or not.....

OnlyBuffalos

Congratulations on your waning interest in numismatics. That is an altogether healthy and normal thing to happen for someone your age. Numismatics except for a very few, is a hobby. It should not be an obsession for a 17 year old. There are far more important things to become obsessed about. Now is a time for discovery, a time for trying new things, a time for risk taking, a time for experimentation. If things don't work out as planned, determine why they didn't, and decide if it is worth trying again.

Start to make goals. Make plans to achieve those goals. If something is important to you, and you have the chance for it, do it. Seize the day. Sometimes that opportunity may never come again and you may regret it the rest of your life.

You may regain a keen interest in numismatics again. Whether you do or not, your experiences thus far will likely serve you well.

Good luck to you.

hedgehog847

Dude, you're growing up. You're at the stage where the world is your oyster, and you've got to get out there and experience life. Get a career. Get a wife. If you lose interest in coins, it most likely will come back. In a few short years, that career and wife may prohibit you from spending too much time on your other indulgences, and coin collecting might look like a great hobby again. I lost interest in coins for a long time (rather, wasn't able to induldge my habit, therefore the desire dropped). Now that I'm married and have a career, I find that I can induldge myself far more now than I could when I was 13. I'm sure coins will be there when you're ready to come back-- the mint isn't gonna stop making them!

Good luck with your move and with school!

Darkhorse

I lost interest in coins when I was 14-15 but came back to it at 21 when I got a job and could spend a few bucks on some metal.

BBN

Don't worry it goes in cycles. I'm an unbelievably huge football fan and coins are not even on the radar during this time. Coins are more of a filler for me until September.

Baley

I lost interest in coins pretty much completely from age 16 to 30...
spent all my money instead on gas, grass, girls, games, greasy grub, etc
after college, got a job and then had to buy a car, a house, travel, get married
finally a couple years ago had caish for coins again,
and could even afford a few kinds I could only dream of before

it's normal

CUEBALL

I started collecting when I was 8 or 10 years old. left, come back, left, come back, left, and now that my family is raised and gone I,m back with a vengence.I've actually been back for quite a while now and it seems to be an obssession with me now but I love every minute of it.They say you don't quite habits you just move them around, well I quit smoking and drinking several years ago and maybe replaced it with coin collecting(better for my health I guess)Anyway, I think if you leave that you'll be back because its already in your blood.

CoinHusker

GoldCoinLover 3/1/05 writes:



<< <i>

Anyways, I think I'm losing interest in coins.



But I don't really have as much interest in coins as I used to. I mean, its not an obession like it used to be. >>





See what a little cold, hard cash can do to your interest in collecting! This should be a lesson for all of us!

MFH

I don't think anyone really looses interest in coins - once the "bug" has bitten you - they just take a break from collecting. Eventually you'll have renewed interest again.

I started collecting in 1960 and I stopped collecting in 1971. I went back - slowly at first - in 1989. In 1994 I resumed collecting with a renewed fervor. I'm sure that once some of my goals are reached, I'll take another hiatus.

.........and no, that doesn't mean I'm selling off my Barbers or SLQ sets

riverman

It is thought to be highly offensive to some people to call them "mexicans".
I heard about an employee at a grocery store who got into a scuffle/fight with
another employee. This first guy was a white guy and the other guy was a
hispanic. This white guy wore a hearing aid, used sign language, and you could
kind of understand what he said sometimes. This white guy wrote the word
"mexican" on a piece of paper and the store management had this white guy fired.
I guess because "mexican" is a slur. The hispanic employee reportedly kept his
job.

USC

<< <i>It is thought to be highly offensive to some people to call them "mexicans".
I heard about an employee at a grocery store who got into a scuffle/fight with
another employee. This first guy was a white guy and the other guy was a
hispanic. This white guy wore a hearing aid, used sign language, and you could
kind of understand what he said sometimes. This white guy wrote the word
"mexican" on a piece of paper and the store management had this white guy fired.
I guess because "mexican" is a slur. The hispanic employee reportedly kept his
job. >>



Er... not sure how this fits in with the subject of a young man losing interest in coins.

gyocomgd

Great thread