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Old 10-03-2005, 06:53 PM
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Posted By: leon

This was a good thread from about 3 1/2 years ago started by Adam W. Let's try it again...

I sell computers to small to large business...pc's, s/w. lan,wan etc.. Been doing it quite a while. I am addicted...I mean I collect vintage baseball cards too....and run a chatboard for those affected..uh..er..I mean in the hobby....regards

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just left the military....now a grad student

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Jack of all trades....

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Professional Gambler.

Well... I am an attorney working on a strict contingent fee system where I front 100% of the litigation costs for my clients and get NOTHING back unless I win the case...

so I guess you see what I mean.

Guys like Peter -- who defend the evil greedy corporations that intentionally put profits over safety --are the "pit bosses" who are just trying to keep all of the money in house.

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I manage the order processing and master file maintenence department for Pearson Education, the world's leading education company. Pearson publishes textbooks, multimedia programs and online services.

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I get paid nothin' for giving art and architecture tours at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and also taking 4-6th graders, and 9-12graders, around, prepartatory to their learning something about ink brush painting.

I get a small amount of money from the government every month (since I only earned a small amount of money), and I have about 1 1/2 years to go on my mother's trust fund (not to be confused with the large amount of money my step=mother left me, which is now gone...except from some cardboard rectangles)...

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Defending corporate America against greedy, rapacious, throw-it-against-the-wall-and-hope-it-sticks, ambulance chasing plaintiffs' lawyers.

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sales ,more sales and more sales.

Carpet store owner,real estate- cherry picking.

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Posted By: Paul Stratton

I played the mini-tours for 8 years with some success. Now I give lessons to people who pay me handsomely to tell them they are getting better, when in reality they will only become more frustrated and thus...need more lessons.

...and I sell raw desert outside Phoenix...for anyone interested in making 11% compound interest...of course that will never compare to doubling up on old pieces of cardboard.

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Sell stuff on ebay.

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i own a demolition and construction clean up company.

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I help people achieve the American Dream. (no, not ownership of a t206 Wagner).....I'm an honest mortgage broker.

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have only posted a few times
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I don't know if Hal was kidding or not about himself....but for me, all the cards I buy are from gambling winnings.

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I design data and IP voice enabled networks for businesses in Wisconsin and Illinois. Then I let the real smart people of the firm implement and maintain them.

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I am an equity trader and try to only buy cards with profits. Sometimes it works, sometimes I buy anyway.

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and , man ,is there a lot of stuff on this board thats fascinating from a professional standpoint !

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I used to work, now retired. I sold and sell things I bought in the 1970's and 80's and sell on ebay.

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Posted By: Kenny Cole

I try to protect the working people of this nation against the corporate pirates represented by people like Peter Spaeth. BTW, in case there is any question, persons against anyone lawsuits are way down, nationwide -- corporations againts corporations lawsuits are way up, nationwide. There is no lawsuit crisis, except the pretend one fomented by the evil corporate types, and those who stand to make money by being absolved of liability regardless of culpability. Fighting against the tyranny of the rich is what I do.

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I used to be a baseball card forum moderator, now I don't have a job.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I am a retired Electronics Engineer that worked at Bell
Laboratories for 30 years in the Data Communications Dept.

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I designed all those various Modems that you interface
your Computers with so that they can communicate via
Telephone Lines or higher speed transmission systems.

This career provided for my 1st wife and two daughters and
paid for a lot of neat looking cardboard "goodies" along the
way.

Also, I was a Radar specialist in the US Air Force (1960-'64).

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I enlisted in the US Air Force 21 years ago...still at it.


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I'm a Librarian.

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i make poke chops

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I'm a veterinarian but pay for most of my fun stuff with ebay profits

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I am a Behavioral Psychologist.

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Posted By: barry arnold

i'm a medical ethics prof. and director of a Center for Health Care Ethics but stick any extra bucks from that career into
a retirement account.
my card buying comes mainly from my wonderful wife who sells
real estate that we acquired over the years---thank goodness
folks still want to live on the gulf of mexico,even though it's hurricane alley.

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I deliver dead animal parts to people in the form of cooked food.I used to manage the restaurant but i realized the drivers had an easier job and made more money and got to listen to music all day and drive around so i fired a driver and demoted myself. Now im broke and spend my days on the computer and walking the boardwalk(im only 1 mile from the Atlantic Ocean) but my jobs easy and i make my own hours

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Posted By: steve yawitz

I teach fourth grade. And, of course, conduct periodic eBay fire sales so I can buy more cards.

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Posted By: Tom

I rarely post comments, but I thought I would respond to this post.

I am a high school teacher and coach Freshmen football and baseball. My coaching checks goto financing my "fix" of vintage cards. I also love to play texas hold'em...my winnings go to card purchases.

Interesting to see what everyone does for a living.
I enjoy the site.
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I'm a criminal defense attorney in NYC...and despite just completing the trial of my life I managed to buy about 20 cards in the midst of it.

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I'm an equipment maintenance technician in the semiconductor industry. The last 3 years I've been working on copper electro platers, & the 10 years before that, I worked on thin films/hivac tools.

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Spent 20 years in advertising, starting as a finish artist and working up to creative director. Started collecting T206s during that time.

Sept. 12, 2001, my employer lost his largest account, an airline manufacturer. I lost my job soon after.

Found work as the art director for a non-profit provider of services and supports to the mentally retarded/developmentally disabled, with locations in 51 cities in 15 states. The pay is not nearly as good, haven't bought a card in just over four years, but I'm home every night by six, and have seen more of my wife and son in the past four years than the thirteen before combined.

Life is good.

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Gastroenterologist...no jokes please!

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Hey Jeff, will we be seeing you on an episode of Growing Up Gotti soon?

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I work for BearingPoint as a SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) and Materials Management consultant.

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Although most of my buying cache comes from ebay sales of attic treasures I accumulated long ago, I am Chief Public Defender for the 21st Jud.Dist.

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Posted By: Cobby33

My answer is: What Peter said. Civil litigator. Keepin' it real, as it were.

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I am an English professor at the University of Illinois, specializing in the history of American poetry and film studies.

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Posted By: Brian Lindholme

I have a good job being a technical manager for a large communications company. I get to live a mile from the Pacific Ocean. I only have to work like a mule 8 days a week, drive thousands of miles per month and then get home to sort our old cardboard after a visit with the wife and kids.
But I built the bulk of my collection back in the good old days when I was a single guy managing and tending a bar...tips=HOFers !!

Great topic!
Great forum!

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Dan...doubtful. Though I should never say never - I did appear on a certain person's radio show the day after the trial....incredibly, I had agreed to go on win or lose - but after winning it was much sweeter, for sure.

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Posted By: Geno

I have spent my last 15 years flying airplanes for the USAF, but am now on a three year exchange tour flying with the Royal Air Force in the UK. I'm trying not to get hooked on non-sports tobacco cards, but some are pretty cool over here! Don't do it, don't do it...

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Slave to the silicon in the valley, doing my best to not get laid off or phased out by a facility in China.


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When I say I flip burgers for aliving, I am serious. I've slowly worked my way down the economic food chain, going from working in a nuclear power plant to flipping burgers. I am much happier doing this than anything except the gaming and comic store I owned in CA.

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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beverly hills gigolo...(sidejob)

custody officer la county sheriff department
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I grew up in a commercial fishing family. When the fish disappeared i sold the waterfront real estate across from manhattan, and now work part time at a bait and tackle store and spend some time on the bay supplying bait to fisherman. The rest of my busy life is taking care of my 5 and 9 year olds, and buying cardboard with funny pics.

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My jobs:

1)Operations Manager for a large food wholesaler - This pays all the bills and buys me cards.

2)Wannabe Air Brush Artist.

3)Wannabe Tattoo Artist.

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Pharmaceutical sales for my living, ebay and direct to collector sales for my hobby.

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Architect, now working mostly in Miami where we live and Central America. Used to work mostly in Boston where I lived with many projects in New Jersey, New Mexico and Colorado.

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