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  • AUandAG
    AUandAG Posts: 25,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Just read through them and realized I was not there (that I saw anyway).

    Retired Audiologist (hearing aid circuit specialist).


    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • WDH
    WDH Posts: 169 ✭✭✭
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    Retired commercial nuclear industry.
  • OKbustchaser
    OKbustchaser Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Network admin for a state agency. I spend all day monitoring state employees to make sure that they aren't wasting tax dollars posting on internet forums.



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    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • JBN
    JBN Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What a wonderful snapshot of a thin slice of America!!!!

    Had to comment on this one:



    << <i>What a dug up old thread.

    In order:

    1. Musician in multiple bands while in high school and shortly thereafter
    2. Made, and I do mean MADE bowling balls for Columbia 300
    3. US Navy for 6 years... then retired... ok, I quit! Machinist Mate, USS Enterprise, 1 plant
    4. Senior Reactor Operator at a Nuclear plant in Texas >>



    I was SRO in the 80s - I left the utility game in the early 90s and have been consulting since. I've done work for both Comanche and STP. May have met you.

    It is kinda wacky that we have me, a former SRO, a current SRO, and another retired commercial nuclear power individual on this one forum!

    Gotta love statistics.
  • bsshog40
    bsshog40 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm a salesman/serviceman in the oilfield.
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    My Original Song Written to my late wife-"Plus other original music by me"
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8A11CC8CC6093D80
    U.S. Army Veteran 1/11 ACR Fulda, Germany
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  • docg
    docg Posts: 528 ✭✭
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    MD. One that collects coins. Guess that makes me a "coin doctor"
  • jdimmick
    jdimmick Posts: 9,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Don't know what I said earlier in the post from a while back, bu t

    nothing now but piddle
  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    Technical director at an abrasives company.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • demodigger
    demodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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    I was a gas systems technician in 2002, when this post began. I now work for a railroad in the bay area.
  • blacksmoke
    blacksmoke Posts: 603
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    Journeyman job shop machinist for 27 years. Repaired everything from farmer browns push lawn mower to the c bores on D-11 track frames. My 3d back injury was the one that took me out. Now, disabled and on ss.
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • Silveraholic
    Silveraholic Posts: 197 ✭
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    I work as an electrician in the Chicago area. On most days I actually enjoy my job. I don't know how some of you do those office type jobs. Just sitting behind a desk all day staring blankly at a computer screen. I'd blow my brains out.
    Veni, Vidi, Vici
  • Twobitcollector
    Twobitcollector Posts: 4,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nothing I'm retired unless you count the time waiting for the money to come in

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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>MD. One that collects coins. Guess that makes me a "coin doctor" >>



    Now that is funny!

    I am a portfolio manager and quasi-CFO for families at a major investment firm.
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • Burks
    Burks Posts: 1,103 ✭
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    Registered Nurse
    WTB: Eric Plunk cards, jersey (signed or unsigned), and autographs. Basically anything related to him

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  • ArizonaJack
    ArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
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    Journeyman toolmaker. In Detroit I built fixtures and gages, move to Los Angeles and learned CNC mills @ Panavision then moved to Rocketdyne SSME ( space shuttle main engine ) in Canoga Park.
    Currently do instrumentation on prototype turbine engines for Honeywell in Phoenix.
    Have also earned a living playing guitar in various blues/classic rock bands.
    " YOU SUCK " Awarded 5/18/08
  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    aerospace worker. i help build heat exchangers for aircraft, fwiw
  • Sonorandesertrat
    Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Started out professional life as a Ph.D.-level inorganic/physical chemist. Now a biomedical engineer.
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • PRECIOUSMENTAL
    PRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
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    Retired Maint. Super Tech.
    Over 35 yrs. exp. in the heavy open-die forging, heat treating, and, machining industry; parts up to 50 tons.
    Maintained ISO 9001 calibration standards, cert. large furnaces to Mil-Spec, $10 Mil+ installations, lot's of .gov work.
    Loved it, same employer the entire time.
  • pcunix
    pcunix Posts: 620 ✭
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    PMR (Pretty Much Retired) computer geek, troubleshooter, program fixer, whatever.
    My Coin Blog
  • Cazkaboom
    Cazkaboom Posts: 294 ✭✭✭
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    Aircraft Assembly technician
  • Cougar1978
    Cougar1978 Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am an MBA Financial Manager. I am currently a site financial manager for a company in the Oil & Gas Industry. I set up at shows (since 1990) as schedule permits and have a website (ebay store). My goal is to be involved in setting up at shows full time upon retirement. My accounting skills give me a synergy for my coin business in inventory analysis, pricing, spreadsheet analysis, and business management. As a strategist I have a diversified inventory of coins and currency and monitor daily market activity via a one page dashboard I have developed. A typical show setup might consist of one case of my best certified coins (inexpensive coins can be stacked 6 high), then three others mostly US and World Currency with some USM products or perhaps an attractive display of world gold.

    Technology allows me to monitor my site full time. My I phone allows me to bid on auctions and manage ebay store activity.
    Investor
  • mdwoods
    mdwoods Posts: 5,560 ✭✭✭
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    I dispense spurious wisdom at no charge.
    National Register Of Big Trees

    We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
  • renman95
    renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A recent office pic.

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    Occasionally I have spectacular views.

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    Fuji
  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>A recent office pic.

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    Occasionally I have spectacular views.

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    Fuji >>




    Wow Comrade, that's one sweet office. image
  • mustangmanbob
    mustangmanbob Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nuclear Physicist, really.

    30 years with a Semiconductor company and 2 years in green (solar) energy.

    9 years in Uncle's Army 75th Ranger Battalion.

    Reference the previous post, when the view is not interesting, I just parachute out of the plane.
  • BaronVonBaugh
    BaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭
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    Retired USAF
    1938-64_Jefferson_Nickel_Proofs
  • Konahead
    Konahead Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭
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    Corp accounts sales manager
    PEACE! This is the first day of the rest of your life.

    Fred, Las Vegas, NV
  • Burks
    Burks Posts: 1,103 ✭
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    After reading through some of this topic, no wonder there are so many high end coins posted. There are a LOT of members here that are way up there on their professional field/chain. Lots of lead, Ph.D., senior, etc positions.
    WTB: Eric Plunk cards, jersey (signed or unsigned), and autographs. Basically anything related to him

    Positive BST: WhiteThunder (x2), Ajaan, onefasttalon, mirabela, Wizard1, cucamongacoin, mccardguy1


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  • jedm
    jedm Posts: 3,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Liar.

    Sorry, was typing too fast. Lawyer.

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    This one made me chuckle!

    I am a sleasman...oops, salesman.
  • DHeath
    DHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
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    I currently teach MIS at Wake Forest University. I'll be headed to a tenure-track at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in the fall. I'm looking forward to learning the coin shops around Appleton.
    Developing theory is what we are meant to do as academic researchers
    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
  • BryceM
    BryceM Posts: 11,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Have a degree in civil/structural engineering. Was an AutoCad draftsman through school, designed highways & water systems for a while after that. Got hair-brained idea to go to med school & I've been an orthopedic surgeon since. Apart from government meddling, it's the best job in the world. Joint replacements & fixing broken bones are my favorites.
  • drfish
    drfish Posts: 955 ✭✭✭✭
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    Veterinarian - great career
  • magikbilly
    magikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
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    Hunt down obscure desirable material in the wilds, authenticate it, grade it, evaluate its frequency, write and research the heck out of it, find additional quality or qualities, write about or publish it, place in cool collection or museum and repeat. image

    Eric
  • astrorat
    astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Still a teacher ... now at The University of Texas at Tyler.
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • pitboss
    pitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
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    Retired casino pitboss.
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Retired coin dealer / cost and financial analyst / accountant in that order of my working life.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • TPRC
    TPRC Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Lawyer

    Tom

  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Middle School Teacher.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • Trime
    Trime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
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    Investigator (hmm)
    Trime
  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Amateur grandfather, since grandkids get free "horse-back" rides, now. image .

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  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I work in the adult entertainment industry - adult beverages that is.
  • coinnut
    coinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Landlord for the last 15 years. Before that 26 years in the coin-operated video game business.
  • valente151
    valente151 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭
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    A junior at the University of Central Florida, studying biomedical sciences with a pre-med focus, besides being a student, I am also a Resident Assistant in one of the Residence Halls here.
    My Retired Toned Proof Mercury Dime Set
  • eddiego
    eddiego Posts: 101 ✭
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    Retired since 1999. I working on a type set of early commem's. I am up to 17.
  • Jeffery
    Jeffery Posts: 115 ✭
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    Retired U/S/ Navy. . . currently living the dream! lol
  • Outhaul
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    << <i>Have a degree in civil/structural engineering... >>



    The difference between civil engineers and mechanical engineers; mechanical engineers design bombs and civil engineers design targets.
  • Zubie
    Zubie Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭
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    I share an office with Renman

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  • Jcarney
    Jcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭
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    << <i>

    << <i>Have a degree in civil/structural engineering... >>



    The difference between civil engineers and mechanical engineers; mechanical engineers design bombs and civil engineers design targets. >>



    I'm a senior electro/mechanical designer starting a new job next Monday. Literally designing bombs. Well, the company designs and manufactures ammunition, ordnance, fuze systems and the automation equipment and tooling required to manufacture these products.
    “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” — Benjamin Franklin


    My icon IS my coin. It is a gem 1949 FBL Franklin.

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