Looking for a career change?

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Posted By: Steve f

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=578823

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Posted By: George Dreher

Would require that one relocate. I've been contacted in the past about positions with PSA, MastroNet and Heritage. Only Heritage would have been willing to allow me to work from my home address.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I'm in. Where do I send my resume? And can I make up the inevitable paycut by regrading all of my own cards first?

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Posted By: andy becker

i assume that's the position with a nice hourly rate and 'all the cards you can steal'.

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Posted By: John

Jeff, LMAO very funny!

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Posted By: Dan

With my near retirement from the US Navy, I can jump right in, although all those years of looking through binaculars has affected my eyesite and my hands tend to shake a bit more due to all that Botswain Mate coffee I have consumed, it sounds perfect to me.

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Posted By: Steve f

Dan, Sounds like your more qualified to be an MLB ump. FTN

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Posted By: peter chao

Guys,

This joke isn't really funny, so you can skip it if you would like.

But I keep thinking about a new grading company on a low budget about the kind of guy they would hire.

Now picture them hiring an 60 year old man with extremely bad arthritis in his hands handling your cards. He's picking up your cards with his hands and then dropping them, then he tries picking them up with tweezers and the tweezers go through the card...not a pretty picture.

Peter

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Posted By: George Dreher

How about a guy who is eating his KFC lunch with no napkins and grading your cards? lol

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Posted By: Dan

Man, just when I thought it couldn't get worse, my shaking hands and poor eyesite are comparable to 60. Yikes, look out VA here I come.

Nah, all kidding aside, this type of job would be tremendously difficult if I were to guess and my hat is off to whomever would seek it. < brown nosing you so if you see my submissions, you will look upon me favorably!

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

Sinced the subject is grading companies, I can't resist passing this along:

I was waiting in line at a specialty stand at the Reds opener Monday to buy a beer for a friend of mine who prefers the microbrews as opposed to the Buds and Bud Lights. No problem. So I get to the front of the line and ask for a Great Lakes something or other (can you tell I'm not a beer drinker?). The vendor tells me he can't sell me any kind of beer except Bud Light because the plastic cups for the premium beers are locked up in a cabinet and he doesn't have the key.

I know what you're thinking, and that's what I said: "Can't you just put the Great Lakes beer in the Bud Light cup?" I asked.

No way, I was told. Bud Light or nothing.

How does this relate to a thread about a grading service?

Because I wanted to scream to the guy, "I'm buying the beer, not the holder!"

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Posted By: peter chao

Rob,

Following up on your story...if you had said it's the beer and not the holder...the manager would have come out from the back and then put your head underneath the Great Lakes beer tap and start making you chug the beer.

Actually it sounds like fun.

Peter

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Posted By: Bob C

OK here’s one along the same theme. I took my twins to one of those local fairs put on by the Rotary, Elks, KOC or whatever and I bought our ride tickets at the entrance like everyone else.
Fast forward to the line at the tilt-a-wheel. As we approach the ticket taker I notice some two-fer coupons in a box on her counter. Having twins I am thinking this is a good thing and I need to get some of these! So I ask the young lady “Where do you get those?” pointing at the two-fer’s. She paused for what seemed to be an indeterminately long time and replied in an uncertain drawl: “Uh, people give them to me.” Oh the horror.

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

Making matters worse: She was operating heavy machinery.