2013-2016 tomato farmer, 2016-2018 woodworker, 2018-2020 worked in foodservice at a Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2020-present: Graduated high school and started into construction, I am now working in construction full time, new houses, remodeling, repair, etc. I love it!
P.S. In case you hadn't figured out by the timeline... I'm still basically a kid
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
Set up ISP dial-up companies in the 90s on BSDi for a group of investors in the Southeast. Then started an IT business, but tired of being inside and managing people. Now farming organic vegetables and love it!
Civil Engineer. They keep bringing me out of retirement. I am just trying to enjoy my coins. Expert witness, Hydraulic jacking foundation repair, Cassion foundations, piles, retaining walls, storm drains, Lots of stuff under your feet.
After decades as an HR leader, I now run my own consulting firm working a few hours a week and am essentially retired. The money earned goes toward my coin habit. Have posted this comic before with these type of threads since Catbert's actions depict the absurdity prevalent in many corporate HR practices of which I am familiar.
I'm pretty much the only person in the world that does what I do. I buy & sale fully functional museum quality miniature weapons. Rifles, pistols, revolvers, shotguns, cannons & artillery, bows & arrows, suits of armor, siege engines, holsters & gunbelts, & accessories for the above. Many of the makers of the items I sell have been dead for many years. When not working on taking the many photos I provide, & the very detailed descriptions, I mostly sit in my desk chair with my feet propped on a corner & bull$hit on the telephone or email. I have a loyal & growing customer following. I need an apprentice!
www.waynedriskillminiatures.com if you're interested.
Retired from Financial - Project Financial Controller (Oil &Gas Industry) / Evening College Accounting Instructor. Currently - Dealing in Coins & Currency both Shows and Online.
Full time job - Firefighter…pretty self explanatory.
Part-time job - Audit/Transcription team member for a local hospital. I prepare insurance denials for Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield claims.
My wife says I push pencils. But I push more than pencils. I’ve been working in financial services (Real Estate Investments) for about 25 years. Started off in accounting, went to an IT project manager, international rollouts and last few years I moved over to Cyber/Risk/vendor management. Our new mandate is to move everything to the cloud. So my job is to make sure we can do that while following all the policies/ procedures our Cyber security mandates. I guess I do push pencils.
@TennesseeDave said:
25 years at the Tennessee Dept. of Correction. 21 years in Security and the last 4 in Maintenance.
Interesting. I am wearing a T-shirt this very moment from Tennessee Correctional Academy. Fun logo on the back "Hanging out at the local bars". Shirt is about worn out and almost destined for the rag bag. I've spent the last 27 years trying to keep housing like yours supplied with visitors.
@Downtown1974 said:
Full time job - Firefighter…pretty self explanatory.
Part-time job - Audit/Transcription team member for a local hospital. I prepare insurance denials for Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield claims.
That's what I should've done. Everyone loves a fireman
Certified Financial Planner. I earned the CFP designation back in 1986.
This was a career change. I used to write the Food articles for Consumer Reports magazine. I worked there from 1973 - 1987 (second job out of college). They paid for my Master’s Degree in Nutrition.
Steve
A day without fine wine and working on your coin collection is like a day without sunshine!!!
@winesteven said:
Certified Financial Planner. I earned the CFP designation back in 1986.
This was a career change. I used to write the Food articles for Consumer Reports magazine. I worked there from 1973 - 1987 (second job out of college). They paid for my Master’s Degree in Nutrition.
Steve
So you went from certified meal planner to certified money planner. Nice.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
27 years with the Massachusetts Dept. of Correction / retired in 2018
Was doing Lead Paint Inspections until covid killed that..
Now? Nothing and loving it!
So I've taken this a little deeper than I probably should have but just sitting here thinking of the things I've done is a bit fun just remembering the journey. You should probably stop reading now though as it is a bit self-indulgent. I may show this to my teenage son to get him motivated to get him out of his post-covid funk.
Okay so starting with my first "job which paid money" at 11, I mowed lawns around the neighborhood.
At 12 I sold candles and crafts that I made also around the neighborhood.
At 13 I became a farm worker (weeding area fields, picked beans and things, best memory was singing songs on the trucks with everyone as we sat in back of trucks going from field to field)...I remember I had to go to the town hall to get a special workers permit that my mother had to sign to be allowed to have a job at this age.
At 14 I was a dish washer/short order cook at a local restaurant. That was fun, lots of waitresses and they always invited me to all their parties where there was plenty of booze and weed, what more could you ask at this age!
At 16 I got a job as a grocery store worker in a large supermarket chain stocking shelves and things in the overnights (I still wonder why my parents were ok with this but I think it had something to do with a divorce they were going through so I wasn't really that much of an interest. Again a bunch of nice people to meet and new friends.
At 17 I pumped gas and ran a package store (late 70's gas crisis (that was something)). Gas lines and things, having someone pump gas into your car was the norm then, hard to believe for the young collectors here.
At 18 I worked in a deli in La Jolla making sandwiches and selling meats. I was basically a surf punk living on my own as I had no college plans at the time so I just got in my car and drove from the east coast west until I could go no farther and just settled down for a while in Pacific Beach. Most of my time was going to punk rock shows and having fun. Hey I got to see the The Clash, Ramones, Runaways, Blasters, Iggy Pop and more, what more could you ask as a kid at this time. The deli job meant I got a meal a day. To be a kid again...
At 20 I started working construction jobs back east building post & beam barns, framing houses and other basic stuff. I did this until a fellow worker dropped a circular saw from the floor above and it just missed my head, I decided I better get a safer job.
At 22 I started working with a private investigator firm that was worked up and down the east coast, we worked in DC, Philly, Boston, NY, Atlantic City and places like that. Huge pay, free housing and really crazy times. Strange times but then it got a bit dangerous so I moved on after an incident that wasn't fun at all.
At 24 I started at a university studying business and computer science. I got a couple degrees there and during that time I did a some interesting jobs including being a bar back in a major hotel with 13 separate bars so I was running around a lot bringing them ice and booze and stuff. Lots of event work as they had a lot of rooms for conventions. I was also the local computer tutor at my university(helping kids do their homework...and troubleshooting why they couldn't make things work), I did a lot of programming back then for departments, mostly in cobol, pascal and basic and stuff like that from a past age...
At 28 I graduated and became a liquor broker - huh! Yea, that is an actual job. That was a rather boring time. I mostly did business promotions (setting up t-shirt nights, and other silly things), dealing with liquor company executives (who drank a lot) and dealing with the local state politics involved in the business of getting liquor listed in our state. You don't even want to know what that really involves... I did deal a bit with companies in Puerto Rico and Mexico that was more interesting but really this was the most boring job ever! I did it for quite a few years as the pay was good and there were some benefits - I think they called it breakage...
Okay that is enough of this foggy memory stuff and leave out the next decade - I'll stop there and on to the real topic of the thread, I currently run a public radio station. I like it and have been doing it for quite a while, we have about 200 people involved so it can be a challenge herding the cats but I believe in the mission so it is worth it. Though the money isn't what it should be the benefits are outstanding and I like going to work everyday!
Work for a regional remodeling company and all I deal with is the distilled problem projects that need to be settled.
Spend most of my energy trying to resolve issues without litigation.
Can’t wait for AI to put me out of work. No one should have to deal with what I do for a living. It’s soul crushing.
Forest Gumped my way through life and despite all of the mistakes I have made have somehow come out on the other side in a better position than most. I am grateful for all that life has afforded me
Cheers!
Ceramic/Materials Engineer for 30+ years. Loved my career, it was fun playing with 2800F furnaces. Did everything from process engineering (putting parts in the box) to R&D development. Retired during the covid mess.
If you had a car in the 90s, I probably made the catalytic converter. And if you fly on one of those small turboprops, it may have a semiconductor material I developed for the ignition system.
I retired in 2008 as VP of an Aerospace Electronics firm - sold a lot of products to the company that @airplanenut works for. Since then I have done a fair amount of consulting work in that field. My main work now though is Firearms Instructor, all levels, and also work at a large, modern, indoor shooting range and retail center. Enjoy this work more than the corporate phase of most of my career. Cheers, RickO
I have owned a commercial floor refinishing business since 1981. In a way I have been judging
wear, luster and contact marks for over 40 years.
I can tell a 65+ floor from a 66 in about 30 seconds flat. Coins? Not so much. James
I fixed analog synthesizers for a man that bought and sold them. He would bring the broken ones to me, I would fix them for an hourly fee, and he would sell them for greater profit.
I also worked as a small engine repairman for a local hardware store for a while. I had a lot of fun doing that.
Now, I am in my first year in college currently debating whether I should continue my route of being a mechanical engineer, or change up and be a full time coin dealer.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" Matthew 6:33. Young fellow suffering from Bust Half fever.
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JRCS #1606
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40 years of automotive crash repair and gave it up in 2016. Now owner of three small businesses and a couple of rental properties.
2013-2016 tomato farmer, 2016-2018 woodworker, 2018-2020 worked in foodservice at a Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2020-present: Graduated high school and started into construction, I am now working in construction full time, new houses, remodeling, repair, etc. I love it!
P.S. In case you hadn't figured out by the timeline... I'm still basically a kid
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
25 years at the Tennessee Dept. of Correction. 21 years in Security and the last 4 in Maintenance.
HS English Teacher / XC and Track Coach 43 years at the same school. Still going . . .
Drunner
Sold and delivered these products to stores for 36+ years. Retired since 2008.
- Bob -
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Central Valley Roosevelts
Worn quite a few hats after starting off with sales/marketing, then transitioned to teaching, recruiting and finally software.
Now at crossroads wondering which way to head after wife passed a few months ago and the youngest of three getting ready to go off to college.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Started out as a civil engineer. Did that for a while and decided to go to med school.
For 16 years now I spend my days (and quite a few nights) doing orthopedic surgery.
Set up ISP dial-up companies in the 90s on BSDi for a group of investors in the Southeast. Then started an IT business, but tired of being inside and managing people. Now farming organic vegetables and love it!
Aerospace.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
High school senior, teller at credit union as well as delivery driver for a pizza shop. Usally come across cool coins at the bank though😂
Retired DoD civilian. Part time contractor.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Sales...high end custom fishing tackle. Fishing is my second hobby...hence the name RLSnapper!
Civil Engineer. They keep bringing me out of retirement. I am just trying to enjoy my coins. Expert witness, Hydraulic jacking foundation repair, Cassion foundations, piles, retaining walls, storm drains, Lots of stuff under your feet.
100% Positive BST transactions
Underground utility construction (mostly directional drilling) for 20 years, recently took a step sideways into truck driving.
After decades as an HR leader, I now run my own consulting firm working a few hours a week and am essentially retired. The money earned goes toward my coin habit. Have posted this comic before with these type of threads since Catbert's actions depict the absurdity prevalent in many corporate HR practices of which I am familiar.
I'm pretty much the only person in the world that does what I do. I buy & sale fully functional museum quality miniature weapons. Rifles, pistols, revolvers, shotguns, cannons & artillery, bows & arrows, suits of armor, siege engines, holsters & gunbelts, & accessories for the above. Many of the makers of the items I sell have been dead for many years. When not working on taking the many photos I provide, & the very detailed descriptions, I mostly sit in my desk chair with my feet propped on a corner & bull$hit on the telephone or email. I have a loyal & growing customer following. I need an apprentice!
www.waynedriskillminiatures.com if you're interested.
Wayne
www.waynedriskillminiatures.com
Retired from Financial - Project Financial Controller (Oil &Gas Industry) / Evening College Accounting Instructor. Currently - Dealing in Coins & Currency both Shows and Online.
Retired for 13 years.
Sales (software/digital). Love the wide variety here.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Full time job - Firefighter…pretty self explanatory.
Part-time job - Audit/Transcription team member for a local hospital. I prepare insurance denials for Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield claims.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
My wife says I push pencils. But I push more than pencils. I’ve been working in financial services (Real Estate Investments) for about 25 years. Started off in accounting, went to an IT project manager, international rollouts and last few years I moved over to Cyber/Risk/vendor management. Our new mandate is to move everything to the cloud. So my job is to make sure we can do that while following all the policies/ procedures our Cyber security mandates. I guess I do push pencils.
My current registry sets:
20th Century Type Set
Virtual DANSCO 7070
Slabbed IHC set - Missing the Anacs Slabbed coins
Interesting thread! I've been in sales and sales management since 1987. Currently I manage a small retail cellphone shop.
Interesting. I am wearing a T-shirt this very moment from Tennessee Correctional Academy. Fun logo on the back "Hanging out at the local bars". Shirt is about worn out and almost destined for the rag bag. I've spent the last 27 years trying to keep housing like yours supplied with visitors.
Own a small Software Consulting Company (https://kunzleigh.com/) doing work mostly State Government work.
Successful transactions with forum members commoncents05, dmarks, Coinscratch, Bullsitter, DCW, TwoSides2aCoin, Namvet69 (facilitated for 3rd party), Tetromibi, ProfLizMay, MASSU2, MWallace, Bruce7789, Twobitcollector, 78saen, U1chicago, Rob41281
Own a structural engineering firm specializing in bridge design and analysis.
That's what I should've done. Everyone loves a fireman
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
Certified Financial Planner. I earned the CFP designation back in 1986.
This was a career change. I used to write the Food articles for Consumer Reports magazine. I worked there from 1973 - 1987 (second job out of college). They paid for my Master’s Degree in Nutrition.
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
So you went from certified meal planner to certified money planner. Nice.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Internetworking engineering director.
Retired in 2001, then built a motorcycle racetrack business. Wife and kids made up for my shortcomings.
Lance.
27 years with the Massachusetts Dept. of Correction / retired in 2018
Was doing Lead Paint Inspections until covid killed that..
Now? Nothing and loving it!
So I've taken this a little deeper than I probably should have but just sitting here thinking of the things I've done is a bit fun just remembering the journey. You should probably stop reading now though as it is a bit self-indulgent. I may show this to my teenage son to get him motivated to get him out of his post-covid funk.
Okay so starting with my first "job which paid money" at 11, I mowed lawns around the neighborhood.
At 12 I sold candles and crafts that I made also around the neighborhood.
At 13 I became a farm worker (weeding area fields, picked beans and things, best memory was singing songs on the trucks with everyone as we sat in back of trucks going from field to field)...I remember I had to go to the town hall to get a special workers permit that my mother had to sign to be allowed to have a job at this age.
At 14 I was a dish washer/short order cook at a local restaurant. That was fun, lots of waitresses and they always invited me to all their parties where there was plenty of booze and weed, what more could you ask at this age!
At 16 I got a job as a grocery store worker in a large supermarket chain stocking shelves and things in the overnights (I still wonder why my parents were ok with this but I think it had something to do with a divorce they were going through so I wasn't really that much of an interest. Again a bunch of nice people to meet and new friends.
At 17 I pumped gas and ran a package store (late 70's gas crisis (that was something)). Gas lines and things, having someone pump gas into your car was the norm then, hard to believe for the young collectors here.
At 18 I worked in a deli in La Jolla making sandwiches and selling meats. I was basically a surf punk living on my own as I had no college plans at the time so I just got in my car and drove from the east coast west until I could go no farther and just settled down for a while in Pacific Beach. Most of my time was going to punk rock shows and having fun. Hey I got to see the The Clash, Ramones, Runaways, Blasters, Iggy Pop and more, what more could you ask as a kid at this time. The deli job meant I got a meal a day. To be a kid again...
At 20 I started working construction jobs back east building post & beam barns, framing houses and other basic stuff. I did this until a fellow worker dropped a circular saw from the floor above and it just missed my head, I decided I better get a safer job.
At 22 I started working with a private investigator firm that was worked up and down the east coast, we worked in DC, Philly, Boston, NY, Atlantic City and places like that. Huge pay, free housing and really crazy times. Strange times but then it got a bit dangerous so I moved on after an incident that wasn't fun at all.
At 24 I started at a university studying business and computer science. I got a couple degrees there and during that time I did a some interesting jobs including being a bar back in a major hotel with 13 separate bars so I was running around a lot bringing them ice and booze and stuff. Lots of event work as they had a lot of rooms for conventions. I was also the local computer tutor at my university(helping kids do their homework...and troubleshooting why they couldn't make things work), I did a lot of programming back then for departments, mostly in cobol, pascal and basic and stuff like that from a past age...
At 28 I graduated and became a liquor broker - huh! Yea, that is an actual job. That was a rather boring time. I mostly did business promotions (setting up t-shirt nights, and other silly things), dealing with liquor company executives (who drank a lot) and dealing with the local state politics involved in the business of getting liquor listed in our state. You don't even want to know what that really involves... I did deal a bit with companies in Puerto Rico and Mexico that was more interesting but really this was the most boring job ever! I did it for quite a few years as the pay was good and there were some benefits - I think they called it breakage...
Okay that is enough of this foggy memory stuff and leave out the next decade - I'll stop there and on to the real topic of the thread, I currently run a public radio station. I like it and have been doing it for quite a while, we have about 200 people involved so it can be a challenge herding the cats but I believe in the mission so it is worth it. Though the money isn't what it should be the benefits are outstanding and I like going to work everyday!
Jim
My oldest son and I would LOVE to bring my 2009 Yamaha R6 for track runs on your racetrack if you are on the east coast
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Work for a regional remodeling company and all I deal with is the distilled problem projects that need to be settled.
Spend most of my energy trying to resolve issues without litigation.
Can’t wait for AI to put me out of work. No one should have to deal with what I do for a living. It’s soul crushing.
Forest Gumped my way through life and despite all of the mistakes I have made have somehow come out on the other side in a better position than most. I am grateful for all that life has afforded me
Cheers!
Director of Marketing
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
Ceramic/Materials Engineer for 30+ years. Loved my career, it was fun playing with 2800F furnaces. Did everything from process engineering (putting parts in the box) to R&D development. Retired during the covid mess.
If you had a car in the 90s, I probably made the catalytic converter. And if you fly on one of those small turboprops, it may have a semiconductor material I developed for the ignition system.
Fun and interesting thread
he's guilty!
I retired in 2008 as VP of an Aerospace Electronics firm - sold a lot of products to the company that @airplanenut works for. Since then I have done a fair amount of consulting work in that field. My main work now though is Firearms Instructor, all levels, and also work at a large, modern, indoor shooting range and retail center. Enjoy this work more than the corporate phase of most of my career. Cheers, RickO
Someone dropped a slabbed Double Eagle! 🤣 😂
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Last 20 years, Academia.
PT job as a high speed passenger ferry captain for most of that time. Gave that up this year to prioritize more time for fun.
I've been unemployed by choice for about a year and a half, thinking about trying something new for 2023. I just don't know what that is yet!
Public Middle School teacher.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
Pulling silver coins out of circulation 65-72
Turning in glass pop bottles for deposit 63-67
Paper Route 68-71
landscaping 70-73
Tractor moving 73-75
navy yeoman 75-77
College 77-81
Burlington Northern Brakeman 78-80
Coin Dealer 81-83
ANACS 84-98
ICG 98-08
ANACS 08-DATE
Raising 3 Boys 2009
Stock Trader 2020-date
I have owned a commercial floor refinishing business since 1981. In a way I have been judging
wear, luster and contact marks for over 40 years.
I can tell a 65+ floor from a 66 in about 30 seconds flat. Coins? Not so much. James
I work for local government. Specifically parks and rec. I have for about 10 years now. And yea it's pretty much exactly like the television show.
Forensic Anthropologist for US Govt charged with the recovery and identification of missing US Service Personnel. 20+ years.
Player at coins!
I fixed analog synthesizers for a man that bought and sold them. He would bring the broken ones to me, I would fix them for an hourly fee, and he would sell them for greater profit.
I also worked as a small engine repairman for a local hardware store for a while. I had a lot of fun doing that.
Now, I am in my first year in college currently debating whether I should continue my route of being a mechanical engineer, or change up and be a full time coin dealer.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" Matthew 6:33. Young fellow suffering from Bust Half fever.
BHNC #AN-10
JRCS #1606
Father of 3- soccer Dad
Married for 25 years
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, private practice, 23rd year
Amateur coin collector, 42nd year
North American CFO for a large food company
Latin American Collection
Electronic Security Systems Specialist.
Owner of a timber farm. Used to be a cattle farm, but a timber farm owner is basically retired.