Served 26 years in the Air Force and retired 2 years ago. I turned around and went back to work for the Air Force as a civilian. I now work in the Inspector General's office.

Sean, MSG is long gone. There isn't much left on 6th St that was there from the early to mid-80s. The Driskill is naturally still there. Esther's Follies is still there (different location but same irreverent comedy, fantastic magician also). Maggie Mae's is still there. But not much else that I can think of. The clubs seem to change frequently. I don't go there anymore and haven't for years, except to go to Esther's Follies. As Yogi said, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Environmental engineer. I work entirely in the field of air pollution. An air head.

Plumber
 

Plumber UA Local 342

Environmental chemist, wastewater, some air analysis...one year from retirement, maybe...I hope. Then I can spend my time fishing and going to ballgames at Wrigley & elsewhere.

Baptist Pastor

Final Audit inspector for a company that supplies fuel, oil, hydraulic, and air conditioning, etc. tubes for all sorts of John Deere agricultural machinery and lawncare equipment. Guess you'd say I'm their "GUARDIAN ANGEL", but I pray most sincerely to my dear Lord Jesus to help me intercept any rejection-able parts, packaging, and informational tags. ---Brian Powell

Fun thread. I love my job as a university professor in coastal engineering.


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House-to-house tutor

Tour manager / tour accountant for touring bands. Some you've heard of, many you haven't.

I'm still an evolutionary psychologist. My new title is Chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Oracle/Big Data Database Administrator for a telecommunications corporate giant. Big Brother is watching. Looking forward to retiring in Colorado 5 years from now, and possibly buying and selling cards full time.

Fun thread....and surprised I missed this awhile back.

After 12 years of teaching 3rd & 4th graders, I moved onto letting my wife do that without me. :) I'm sort of in-between things right now, but I'm a landscaper/deck builder in the spring and summer, moonlight as a drummer, and I also help a buddy of mine with an online sports card business!

My office...
 

Thank You to all of the Military posters in this thread, Thank you for your service!

I am a 16 year Career Firefighter in the Washington DC/Baltimore metro areas. Every 3rd day, this is the view from my office...

I am beginning my 12th year as a middle school principal. I enjoy my job, but am hoping to retire in 5-7 years.

Escrow Closer for a title company for the past 17 years and a former Civil War reenactor. Though the latter didn't pay, it was much more rewarding :)

Association CEO and lobbyist

As a financial advisor, our whole industry is so intensely regulated that those of us who strictly follow the rules can't say much about anything in a public forum - without getting it approved by 'compliance' first. However, I do have pretty strong opinions that I'm happy to share privately.

scottglevy@yahoo.com

Warmly,
Scott

I am lucky enough to own a restaurant with my best friend, who also happens to be my wife. As much as I love my work, our real passion is food justice and the restaurant is the perfect platform for us to speak about this topic. I am fortunate to be invited to speak at many different forums concerning agribusiness, Organics, local food, food deserts, colony collapse, urban gardening, and many more related topics.

By day, I'm Graphic Design Director for the largest faith-based, non-profit provider of services to the intellectually and developmentally disabled in the country.

By early mornings (from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. three days I week), I'm in logistics for a retailer whose logo looks like someone should be shooting at it. And by logistics, that is the fancy title for someone who spends up to two hours in sub-zero freezers taking stuff out to thaw and putting it on the shelves before 8 when the doors open.

The second job is pretty much mindless, but helps pay the bills (and buys the baseball cards) that working for a non-profit doesn't cover.

Retired educator, retired from Naval Reserve in 1994. I now do 15-20 shows a year, setting up with my friend Coach Estes Cards Ron Estes. Hope to see everyone in Chicago at the National. We will be in the same group with Terry Brown of Chesterfield Cards. Numbers 502, 600, and 602 sound about right for the booths.

I now work as a museum archivist. Interesting compared to auction houses in that, while that the research and authentication work is similar, the museum has never sold a thing so financial value is a minor afterthought at best.

Last year was our first with PARCC. It went so well that OH canned it and will just use AIR next year!!

(My problem wasn't so much the test itself, it was the stupendous amount of time wasted around the test. I have actually started introducing myself as "used to be a teacher, now I'm a Test Proctor.")

I am a civilian Electronics Engineer for the U.S. Air Force working on the F-35 fighter jet program. Cool work, and I'm looking forward to the future international travel.

Pretty much the same here, Ken. We did a PARCC pilot last year....there was such outrage from the masses that we went with MCAS this year.

I sell the screws, rods and interbody devices neurosurgeon and ORTHO spine doctors put in people's spines.


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I help feed all you guys with real jobs... Uh I mean.. Proud to run a fine dining establishment. Also day care worker.. Uh I mean hire a train teenagers in their first employment experience.;)
Drew

Farmer(organic variety)

Automotive Noise and Vibration Engineer

I have been a professional photographer/photographer's assistant for the last 13 years. Sometimes moonlight in the film/video industry and also work in a MLB organization that some refer to as the "Evil Empire".

work
 

I climb stuff - poles, trees, walls - with ropes course elements on them - zip lines, climbing walls - as an inspector. Love being up high. Lots of traveling, on the road M-F. During 9/11 I was helping build a course in Korea. Missed all the excitement back home. But when I have free time, I go climb stuff - rocks! Takes all kinds...

Richard, I see your in MA. Do you get out to the Gunks much? Here's my youngest climbing Betty, I think he was 4 at the time.

DJ

Gunks! My first lead ever was on High Exposure. We did it as three pitches: up, traverse to the ledge, then out the roof and up.

That was about 50 pounds ago. :(

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...j.jpg~original
(Not me in this pic, but I do have a Kodachrome shot just like this that is me. Honest!)

I worked for a medium sized bank that was recently acquired by a larger bank. The legal merger is complete. Next up is the system integration. I'll be severed on October 1, which is my 42nd anniversary with the company. Not the retirement date I anticipated, but close enough.

I'm a water boy for a lawn and garden center and slowly spending money I saved up while sporting a personna almost as interesting as some of the ones listed above, hoping to have $1 in the bank when social security kicks in, at which point I will add an update to this thread that will be very impressive to slackers, but will still leave me exactly equal to everyone else when the first shovel of dirt is flung on my box.

John,
Sorry to hear about the unanticipated retirement. I despise big banks...really miss the warmer, local feeling of a small bank. BOA is the worst. The best day for me recently was when I was informed that they sold my mortgage to another bank....

Best of luck to you.

I was a Geologist at a Hazardous Waste Facility - I do NOT glow at night and I do NOT have 2 heads...oh wait a minute...

After 26 years I was kicked to the curb as a cost-cutting measure!

Now retired, sort of, I help people who have unwanted collections of whatever connect with people who REALLY WANT & APPRECIATE Grandma's old dishes or Grandpa's coins - like you folks on NET 54!

Yes, I make a little for my efforts, but I have made WAY MORE friends!

Thanks for reading my blather!

Real estate broker for the last 10 years was in the resturant business before that for about 17 years.

Graphic Designer

Home mortgage consultant. I really enjoy it most days.

I am now a Service Coordinator for Halliburton working on 19 years and worked from the bottom up
bulky, pump truck operator, Service Supervisor 1, SS2 ( first in my area to be promoted), SSIII (the first in my area to be promoted), Service Leader, Now Coordinator. Hoping to retire after 35 years with the Company at which time I will be 57 and my Rolex watch award.

I am a mutual fund manager.

During the school year I am a full time Industrial and Systems Engineering major. Currently earning beer, er, card money as a cashier at the local airport.

I'm Director of Engineering for AMIDAC International. We manufacture exothermic and aluminothermic weld powders, thermite, graphite molds and also flash butt welders. It's a very unique industry with only 7 players in the world.


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For 10 years I have worked in the library system for Yale University. My first few years all I did was read Baseball players biographies which I credit to stimulating my interest in pre-war cards, especially Ty Cobb!

Sales Director for a top 50 dot com, working for an internet start up makes it not seem like work sometimes

I just wanted to bring this topic up again for the new members who haven't seen it yet.

I'm a property manager for a corporate housing company in NYC . I help manage different building on the the east side and chealsea . Sometimes on the west side and downtown . I enjoy it because I'm free to do what I want and get to see all the sites and sounds .

Sr Software Engineer.

Work...
 

Sr. Project Estimator for Commercial Paint & Cabinetry Co.

Film & TV Producer

Senior Security Analyst for a NGO that provides international aid and relief to those in need. We do threat and security assessments on a global scale in over 120 countries

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Lion Tamer

My family has been in the trucking business for a long time.

Network Engineer/Data Analyst

Retired Production Manager in a large sheetfed printing plant. 26x42 inch sheets with 5 over 2 capabilities. Nice to be here learning so much about the "good old days" of the T206's printing process and other cards. Love all the history. Thanks Jim

I recently switched jobs. Currently a Process Improvement Specialist (Six Sigma Black Belt) for Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio. It's a big change from my manufacturing background, but healthcare has been a field I've wanted to get into for a while.

Own employment service
 

Www.Allcountyemployment.com
694 Reading Avenue West Reading PA 19611

I own 2 ice cream shops and a toy collectible business, also a toy historian. love toys!

Retired from GTE in 1999 with 30 years service. Have my own Telephone Service at present. General Telephone Service. Generaltelephoneservice.com

Ops manager for heavy construction. Water, sewer, tunneling etc...

engineer, working on energy efficiency projects and electric vehicles

one more add to this theme - my first job was a block from the old headquarters of the company that made the Spalding Champions set. I would like to sneak into the basement and find a set or two still tucked away :)

Retired from the Navy in 2009 after 30 years of service. Currently working for the government. Will retire in 6 years for good. Nice to see some of you retired in your 50's. Nice!

I started a company, Duke Cannon Supply Co., that markets and sells men's grooming products. Our mission is to provide men alternatives to using teenage body wash like Axe. I also consult on the side.

Data analyst


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I'm a fluffer.

CEO of a large trade association

I make sure all of the safety containers on the highway by merging lanes with metal or concrete dividers have a full amount of water in them in case a car hits them.

In the movies i am sad to see chase scenes end with an accident knocking down all of those containers as someone will have to fill those back up and also upset to see that many of them were only half full.

I'm a pharmacist by day and a He-Man historian by night. www.powerandhonor.org


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I worked in an underground coal mine for 31 years. Took my pension and semi-retired (I do carpentry jobs sometimes if I feel like it) at age 51 ten years ago. Coal miners are not dumb guys with picks and shovels. It's rough and dangerous, but it is mostly highly skilled jobs operating heavy machinery. I was good at it and am proud of it. No way I could ever work in an office, sit at a desk. Unfortunately looks like I will eventually be cheated out of the pension and medical care I was promised. Not promised - a signed contract! Probably have to sell off my collection.

I know coal mining is tough work . . .I saw Zoolander.

Seriously, that's tough work, and the kind of work that made this country what it is today. Sorry to hear you were screwed out of a well deserved pension. That is terrible.

Still have the pension at present, but in danger. The company I worked for has played their little games. Bought and sold, mergers, all that shit that makes millions for a few. Now the "company" that is supposed to pay my benefits is going bankrupt. All the millions they made have disappeared into some crook's pocket. No money left to pay their former employees.

Without getting political, and this board is certainly not the place for that, this is precisely the kind of crap that has angered so many people into looking in the direction of candidates for president we could hardly have imagined even 5years ago. Big middle finger votes for the status quo. Good luck.

Not so much the He-Man stuff, but I am a pharmacist as well. Haven't practiced in 24 years though :eek:

The fact that I know what this is is probably almost as troubling as that you claim to do it for a living.:)

I was waiting for someone to ask...what is it?

Tech Entreprenuer - created a video indexing startup 5 years ago www.veenome.com - sold it last year and then started collecting cards again.

Re:Fluffer

Tony, I was afraid to ask. :p

They underfunded the pension over time? Did they possibly fund it as required by law? If if the company declares bankruptcy the pension should still have assets.