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  • billwaltonsbeard
    billwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,751 ✭✭✭✭
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    I'm the new hire trainer for a municipal collections company.

    And when I don't have a new hire class, I work very hard at looking busy.
    My cards on COMC
  • cincyredlegs
    cincyredlegs Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭
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    I am a strategic buyer at a train mfg.
    Project:

    T206 Set - 300/524
  • Dialj
    Dialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
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    United States Army Marine Deck Warrant Officer ... 20 years image
    "A full mind is an empty bat." Ty Cobb

    Currently collecting 1934 Butterfinger, 1969 Nabisco, 1991 Topps Desert Shield (in PSA 9 or 10), and 1990 Donruss Learning Series (in PSA 10).
  • BunchOBull
    BunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
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    My how the times have changed...

    high school chemistry teacher.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • DoctorK
    DoctorK Posts: 868 ✭✭✭
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    Realtor
  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector
    1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590 ✭
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    Still Mgmt. for a Potato/Orange grower/packer/shipper.

    I'm my Moms boss ! image
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  • CNote
    CNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
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    Part time CD/DVD sales while mostly a stay at home dad to a 14 month old while my pharmacist wife brings home the big money.
  • Reljac
    Reljac Posts: 758
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    Actuarial Statistician
  • gecko109
    gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
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    Chicago fire engineer.
  • Vintageismygame
    Vintageismygame Posts: 285
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    Accountant/Auditor working my way towards becoming a CPA

    Matt
  • fattymacs
    fattymacs Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭
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    President of a small manufacturer.
  • judgebuck
    judgebuck Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭
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    appellate court judge

    Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.

  • mcolney1
    mcolney1 Posts: 997 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>I.B.E.W. Electrician >>



    My first job out of college was working for local 77 here in Seattle. Produced their newspaper and did some PAC work. Got to meet Cesar Chavez and then vice-president Bush.

    I'm a high school vp/student supervisor.
    Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989
  • Uphill
    Uphill Posts: 361 ✭✭
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    Out of work Collection Manager.
    Jamie

    Looking for Charlie (Charley) Maxwell cards.
  • MULLINS5
    MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
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    full-time student of american literature

    patrick
  • Brick
    Brick Posts: 5,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Masonry Contractor for 36 years. Before that a mason, before that a masons laborer. When I graduated High School my friends went off to college. I said "you are going to pay money to stay in school?" "I can make $1.80 an hour right now". I'm still making my $1.80. Thats why I buy the lower condition cards.
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
    http://www.unisquare.com/store/brick/

    Ralph

  • Sportsamerica
    Sportsamerica Posts: 990 ✭✭
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    Accounting Director for an international Grocery Retailer
    Cory
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    Working on:
    Football
    1973 Topps PSA 8+ (99.81%)
    1976 Topps PSA 9+ (36.36%)
    1977 Topps PSA 9+ (100%)

    Baseball
    1938 Goudey (56.25%)
    1951 Topps Redbacks PSA 8 (100%)
    1952 Bowman PSA 7+ (63.10%)
    1953 Topps PSA 5+ (91.24%)
    1973 Topps PSA 8+ (70.76%)
    1985 Fleer PSA 10 (54.85%)
  • Nugen
    Nugen Posts: 107 ✭✭
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    Mortgage banker
  • mittec
    mittec Posts: 173
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    Full Time: Electronic Technician
    Part time: Ebay seller
  • mittec
    mittec Posts: 173
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    << <i>I.B.E.W. Electrician >>




    IBEW here
  • lanemyer85
    lanemyer85 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭
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    Professor/writer
  • lsutigers1973
    lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
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    << <i>Out of work Collection Manager. >>



    That's pretty funny right there.
  • nascar20
    nascar20 Posts: 652
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    Sheetmetal Workers Local 9-Colorado


    Jeff
    set needs
    03/04 & 05/06 topps black
    72-77 topps baseball raw
    72-75 topps football raw
    any years santo,williams,banks,
    payton,butkus,sayers,piccalo,ditka,hampton
    wantlist

    good transactions katscards,swartz1,packman,Salinas
  • mbothner
    mbothner Posts: 778 ✭✭✭
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    I was a computer programmer for 29 years but was laid-off. Now I'm an army veteran and single parent of 3 looking for a job in northern Virginia.
    My Registry Sets
  • mike22y2k
    mike22y2k Posts: 325 ✭
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    42 year old man with way too much time on my hands! used to

    DM Haagen Dazs/Edy's/B+J's icecream distributor
    Landlord 20 years-sold everything in 2006(luck)
    2 small businesses-Handyman business, delivery company
    stock trader all week- when I can stop looking at Ebay and CU
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • Stone193
    Stone193 Posts: 24,837 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>United States Army Marine Deck Warrant Officer ... 20 years image >>

    What do you do? Just curious. LCU officer?

    I would assume you were stationed at Ft Eustis?


    Mike
  • eyebone
    eyebone Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭
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    grade 12 history teacher.

    eyebone
    "I'm not saying I'm the best manager in the world, but I'm in the top one." Brian Clough
  • AISAVDBBALLINPHILLY
    AISAVDBBALLINPHILLY Posts: 249
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    FT Administrator at a Community College and PT English instructor there as well
    Lawrence Taylor #1 Basic/Master
    1993 Pro Set Power All-Power-Defense Gold #1
  • Griffins
    Griffins Posts: 6,079 ✭✭✭
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    Advertising Photographer.

    Always looking for N690 Kalamazoo Bats and Newsboy Cabinets

  • DrJ
    DrJ Posts: 2,213
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    << <i>Electrical Engineer for one of the evil oil companies. >>



    This was my post from 2008. Still an Electrical Engineer, but now working at one of the country's largest Nuclear Generation Facilities. Best career move I have made to date.
  • WalterSobchak
    WalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
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    Claims adjuster for a very large insurance company. I can't interview worth a damn, so no changes on the horizon.
    'Sir, I realize it's been difficult for you to sleep at night without your EX/MT 1977 Topps Tom Seaver, but I swear to you that you'll get it safe and sound.'
    -CDs Nuts, 1/20/14

    *1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
    *Clemente basic set: 85.0% complete, 7.89 GPA
  • Clemaz
    Clemaz Posts: 1,422
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    Unemployed. Started a candy company which is the link in my sig line.
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    Sweet Morsels Toffee and Chocolates
  • goose3
    goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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    5-0
  • Jdurg
    Jdurg Posts: 997 ✭
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    Program Data Manager for a large Pharmaceutical Company.

    I'm in charge of setting up the collection of data obtained during a clinical trial, ensuring the data is error free and honest, ensuring that everything we (the company) does is in line with the requirements set forth by the countless national and international regulatory agencies, ensure that when the sites report data that isn't clear that we properly ask them to clarify their response, etc. etc. At the end of the day, the work I do makes sure that what our clinicians and statisticians see in the MASSIVE tables of data at the end of the study is a correct representation of what all the sites collected/observed during the study.

    I'm currently assigned to two different compounds and am in charge of all the clinical trials we do on those two compounds. It's a great deal of work, but it gives me the opportunity to travel the world to give presentations on our data collection methods to the investigators who will be starting up on our trial. (Investigator Meetings). There's also a modicum of job security since no matter what happens, clinical trials have to be run. Our work determines whether or not a new compound the company has developed is effective in the population it was designed to treat, and also does not cause any severe unwanted effects. Whenever you get a prescription and the pharmacist gives you a pamphlet with a lot of information in there about potential side effects, it's the work that people like me do which determines what goes on there. The amount of the drug you have to take to get the desired effect is also something that my data management helps determine.

    Wow. I can type pretty fast I just realized. image
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • obusek99
    obusek99 Posts: 262 ✭
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    Husband, Father, Manager of Beer Distributor

    Am I the only one who thinks everyone else's job sounds so much better than mine?
  • bman90278
    bman90278 Posts: 3,453 ✭✭✭
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    I'm a propmaker in the IATSE Local 44 in Hollywood, CA. I build anything from sets to props for movies or tv shows. Last year I worked on Iron Man II, The Green Hornet, Thor, and Hot Tub Time Machine to name a few of the big ones. Right now I've been working on the reshoots of Iron Man 2. I gotta say that I normally don't get caught up in watching movie stars, but Robert Downey is worth watching. That guy has Tony Stark down!!

    brian
    My Dodgers Rookie Cards Project
  • TNP777
    TNP777 Posts: 5,711 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>grade 12 history teacher.

    eyebone >>

    At the moment, that's what my daughter wants to be. So far, all she's got down is the 'grade 12' part. After she graduates, we'll see what she still feels like doing after tacking college.

    Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
  • Littletweed
    Littletweed Posts: 624 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>Husband, Father, Manager of Beer Distributor

    Am I the only one who thinks everyone else's job sounds so much better than mine? >>



    They may "sound" better, but happiness in what you do is the only thing that matters. image

    I do many things, part-time:

    stay-at-home-dad, student, waiter, entrepreneur.
    Matt

  • lsutigers1973
    lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
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    That dude is whining because he gets to hang around beer all day?
  • csmtampa
    csmtampa Posts: 1,828 ✭
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    << <i>

    << <i>United States Army Marine Deck Warrant Officer ... 20 years image >>

    What do you do? Just curious. LCU officer?

    I would assume you were stationed at Ft Eustis? >>



    Ahh good ole Ft Useless haha.

    I spent about a week and a half there doing some deployment work ups.

    I remember it was cold as helll, and the training was useless (inside joke). Could have done the same on Lejuene.

  • csmtampa
    csmtampa Posts: 1,828 ✭
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    << <i>That dude is whining because he gets to hang around beer all day? >>



    Maybe hes recovering. 14 weeks strong or so.
  • Pigs
    Pigs Posts: 761
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    News photographer at KOMO Television Seattle. Going on 16 years there next month, in the biz for 23 total.
  • purduepete
    purduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭
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    Aircraft Maintenance Inspector
    Tom

    Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
  • hobart4281
    hobart4281 Posts: 376 ✭
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    Director of Operations for a cable manufacturer. We provide cabling and connectivity solutions to the PC, audio/video, and data communications industries....

    It never ceases to amaze me how many people need 3m USB cables image
    Collecting:
    Dallas Cowboys
    SuperBowl MVPs
    Heisman Trophy Winers
  • otwcards
    otwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
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    Elitist, pompous, know-it-all, self-servingly arrogant message board poster . . .
  • bassnbud8
    bassnbud8 Posts: 66
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    Holy crap, I cant believe how many home makers (stay at home dads) there are on here!

    I am a stay at home dad of 2 girls! Its not really a job, but it can be work, I also fish bass tournaments and make enough in winnings to support that habit.
    My list of jobs in the last 14 yrs;
    Union bricklayer
    General construction
    Student- 7 yrs and I am not even a doctor!
    Personal Trainer- Listening to fat women make some of the nastiest sound you will ever hear wasnt my cup of tea!
    Fitness consultant @ a Dicks Sporting Goods
    Merchandiser for both Budweiser and Miller- not as good as it sounds, gettn knifes pulled on you and someone trying to sell you crack everyday isnt really fun. Miller dist. did give free beer!!!!
  • 123Slider
    123Slider Posts: 851 ✭✭
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    Natural Resources Administrator
    The best pitch to start a hitter off with is always strike one.
  • Jdurg
    Jdurg Posts: 997 ✭
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    << <i>Husband, Father, Manager of Beer Distributor

    Am I the only one who thinks everyone else's job sounds so much better than mine? >>



    You get to work with beer and control the distribution of beer to all of its millions of drinkers. I would gladly trade jobs! imageimage
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • 70chip
    70chip Posts: 797
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    Unemployed for the last 2 years....been laid off 4 times in the last 6 years, working in telecommunications/technology does that I guess.....cost me a marriage - though I miss the house we sold more than her LOL...anyways, what to say.....life sucks sometimes....Party on!!!
    Collecting Interests:
    Ripken, Brooks & Frank Robinson, Old Orioles, Sweet Spot Autos, older Redskins - Riggins, Sonny, Baugh etc and anything that catches my eye. image

    My ghetto sportscard webpage...All Scans - No Lists!!! Stinky Linky
  • bbcemporium
    bbcemporium Posts: 684 ✭✭✭
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    Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, currently serving as a Plant Manager
    Registry Sets

    "Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"

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