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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw&nbsp; </b><p>I'm a lawyer in LA, primarily involved in real estate, construction and insurance cases. And I'm a card-a-holic.

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Posted By: <b>Tom</b><p>an Export Compliance mgr for a large brown transportation company.........also addicted. Need good 12-step program if anyone knows of any.

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Posted By: <b>john</b><p>I do nothing now which explains why i dont buy anything now besides t206 commons with money made from non-vintage ebay sales whenever i feel like doing that....but i used to manage a resturant,which i will be doing again shortly(unless someone wants to pay me to read about baseball all day,im getting good at it).....now i sit on the computer all day looking at stuff i want to buy

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Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>Fast Food Franchises in Costa Rica & Venezuela.

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Posted By: <b>Marc S.</b><p>Help lawyers figure out damage claims....<BR><BR>Jaime, where in Venezuela are your franchises? I'm getting married in Caracas in four months...

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Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>In Caracas.<BR><BR>Please let me know if you need any help there, I spend almost a week every month in Venezuela.<BR><BR>jleiderman@hotpop.com<BR>

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>try my hardest to hide it from the wife <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> and sell computers (when they were still needed).....regards

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...usually over a network, which explains why I'm always online!

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>I manage a Bowling center, the one sport I really excelled at. The owner allows me to go to Twins games in the summer, it is 120 miles west of Minneapolis. I use to have a card store, it was a dream job. I am single and have no expenses. Savings accounts suck and the stock market is iffy. Why not vintage cards? I love them <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> .<BR><BR>Lee

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Posted By: <b>MW</b><p>I play with baseball cards all day long! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>HalleyGator</b><p><BR>I'm a personal injury attorney. Our firm was one of the Florida firms to win the case against Tobacco companies.<BR><BR>Check me out if you care:<BR><BR>www.fonhink.com

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Posted By: <b>Keith O'Leary</b><p>I slave in front of a computer all day for crumbs as pay. I'm a programmer/analyst for county government, and have no desire to cure my habit.

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Posted By: <b>Andy Baran</b><p>I'm the Midwest Regional Sales Manager for the largest Bottled Water company in the US. So I sell an item that everyone basically gets for free out of the sink, and I charge more per gallon than gasoline. Go figure. This is a great country that we live in.

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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>My wife's maiden name is Getty.

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>I'm a docent (lead tours) at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, I read late 19th and early 20th century novels to an old lady with Parkinson's disease, I help a blind girl balence her check book and send out birthday cards once a month, the government sends me two checks every month, and my cousin dribbles out little bits of money my mother left me in a "Special Needs Trust" (you lawyers might know what that is) so that the government won't stop sending me the two checks.<BR><BR>The museum pays me nothing, the old lady pays me $10 an hour, the blind girl pays me $7 an hour,the government pays me about $700 a month, and the Special Needs trust pays me as much as my cousin thinks she<BR>can get away with sending me.<BR><BR>Now my step-mother has died, and within a year I will inherit sufficient money so that I will have to start paying for my own medications, hospitalizations, psychoanalysis, and, in short, I'll need some supplemental insurence for my Medicare.<BR><BR>You didn't really want to know all that, did you?<BR><BR>As for baseball cards, I beg, borrow, earn and steal as much as I can to buy them, and have for 22 years.:)

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Kevin Cummings</b><p>Regular trips to the <font color=red><b>blood bank</b></font> and organ donation center. But that is starting to take its toll. <BR><BR>Anyone want to buy an EXMT 18 year old boy with exceptional programming skills? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Anthony</b><p>Advertising photographer in Los Angeles. I help convince people to buy things they don't really need, while convincing myself I do need the cards I really don't. Instant karma in action. Tom, when you get that 12 step group together I"m there!

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Posted By: <b>John</b><p>i want Lees job,i think that sounds like a great job,at least doing something you like....dont tell me old boss,but i used to pay 2 kids each $20 a day out of my pocket,they would do all my work and i would watch tv for my whole shift and still make some money,and i didnt care because i lived at home and had no bills...i think its called subcontracting or something,i called it getting paid to watch tv and eat free food

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Posted By: <b>Marty</b><p>I sell cards to Anthony. I have been buying and selling cards for several years. All profits go back into paying expenses and buying more cards.

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Posted By: <b>Mike Williams</b><p>for now I write "code" for a private company called GeneFormatics. We process DNA sequences at the amino acid (or protein) level then....determine their function, then structure. Hopefully one day, we will provide data to big pharma so they can cure/treat various diseases. Remember the name (shameless plug!).

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Posted By: <b>Plastic Dog</b><p>I'm in medical school with a wife and 3 kids. No income. But that doesn't stop the real card addicts.

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>I forgot to mention, I have a title, it took 5 yrs. to achievebut I now am "Mr. Bowling Shoe Giverouter Guyer". I am a true American Hero, and proud of it. I have work shirts with that title right on them.<BR><BR>Proud to have a title,<BR><BR>Lee<BR>

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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>I am a commodity trader for Sempra Energy Trading. For most of my career I traded crude oil but for the past year I have traded a commodity basket involving everything from energy to grains to precious and base metals to soft commodities(sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and orange juice).

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Posted By: <b>Jim</b><p>It's only an addiction <u>after</u> you acknowledge it is a problem. I have no problem with it, so...<BR>I buy large large lots of cards at auctions - wanting to keep two or three of them, and sell the rest on Ebay. I basically break even. But, at least I upgrade my set and not have it eat in to my salary from my "real" job - Network Manager for Tufts Medical School, Boston. Plastic Dog: what school are you at? I have a wife (somewhat less than understanding) and a 3-year old daughter (much more understanding). Lee, big balls or candle pin? (no pun here) Jim

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>I'm the guy you never want to have to work with... because if you do it means that something really, really bad has happened to you. I'm a property claims adjuster for an insurance company, and I specialize in what my company considers "intermediate sized" losses (between $30,000 and $100,000 in damage). Usually these are residential house fires, and I do about 3-4 of them a month.<BR><BR>Amazingly I have not yet had a claim that involved a significant (over $1,000) amount of sports cards or memorabilia... although I'm sure that I just jinxed myself.

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...early 1900's distance runner on t218

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>The bowling Center i work at is the kind of bowling you see on TV. You must live out East, I think that is the only area left that has candlepins. Did you guys Know that there is a candlepin boeling center beneath Fenway Park?<BR><BR>Mr. Bowling Shoe Giver Outer Guy,<BR><BR>Lee

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>Runscott - I believe that he is a distant relative, but I've never been able to prove it (there aren't all that many Obermeyer's around). If you looked at a picture of me from my early 20's and compare it to the card, I think that I look almost exactly like him. It's kind of spooky, really. Also, all of my family is from New York, which is where he was a runner. I've got 3-4 of the cards, but if anyone has any they want to sell cheap, let me know.<BR><BR>Now if only I could convince the Obermeyer ski clothes family that I'm a long lost relative...

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Posted By: <b>Tom</b><p>in Trading places? Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice and Pork Bellies?

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Posted By: <b>Robert</b><p>Hi Jeff--<BR><BR>I've read some things you've written about insuring one's collection (I think it may have been in VCBC, either in letter or article form) and I had one question: I've been trying to locate an insurer for both baseball cards and memorabilia, and only have been able to find insurers of postcards and ephemera who won't insure baseball cards. Do you have any suggestions?<BR><BR>Any responses would be very much appreciated!<BR><BR>Robert

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Posted By: <b>W.M.</b><p>I see dead people. I'M a Homicide Detective.

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...

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Posted By: <b>W.M.</b><p>Nope not even a dead consultant.

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Posted By: <b>Tim</b><p>I am Chief Meteorologist for a private weather firm based out of Fargo, ND (thankfully, I am not there much!). We specialize in cloud seeding for rain enhancement and hail suppression. YES, it works! I work in a radar and direct planes around thunderstorms. The company has projects worldwide. Currently, I am in Argentina...maybe not for long!<BR><BR>Tim

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>at some point, we all got bitten by the same bug.<BR> <BR> Julie <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Todd (nolemmings)</b><p>I too am an attorney (commercial litigator), with little or no business acumen. Thus, I pay for my hobbit by incurring more and more debt.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>Robert,<BR><BR>One of the most affordable ways to insure your collection is to shop around basic homeonwers policies. Some carriers have limits on sports cards in their policies (usually $1,000 maximum), while others do not have limits. Your agent/broker should be able to tell you which policies are available without limits. Of course, you've also got to make sure that you are comparing apples to apples with respect to the rest of the policy.<BR><BR>Unfortunately I can't be much more help than that... I don't sell insurance, and I only adjust claims based on the policies of one company, so I really don't know how most of the other policies read or how their claims departments apply coverages.

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Posted By: <b>RB Craik</b><p>On the assembly line at the very end. My delegation of empowerment is to close their eyes just before the can's lid is sealed. <BR>Very rewarding but my wife says I smell funny.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>accounting

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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>But when I was younger I inherited money from my family. Not that I'm rich, but I can do what I want. Or, more importantly, not do what I don't want.

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Posted By: <b>Darren J. Duet</b><p>I'm a Family and Sports Medicine Physician living in Cut Off, Louisiana--about an hour South of New Orleans--in the swamps.

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Posted By: <b>Rob L</b><p>Geologist, running an environmental company that specializes in assessing and remediating contaminated soil and ground water.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>I'm a criminal defense attorney in New York City and represent people all over the country. And I wish I had an identical twin so that we could charge twice as much and buy twice as many cards....<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Glenn</b><p>I'm a Ph.D. student (for at least one more year) studying the psychology of human mating. Had an NSF Fellowship, but that ended, so now I'm a math tutor and an ebay Powerseller. Every penny I make on ebay, and no more, goes back into the card and memorabilia collection.

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Posted By: <b>Dave Williams</b><p>I own a business selling janitorial supplies, cleaning products, and shipping supplies.<br /><br />I also have 2 rental properties.<br /><br />www.williamssupplycompany.com<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>I'm a medical ethicist,serving as Director of a Center for Health Care Ethics, a cooperative effort involving the university and a regional health care system.<br />I also have a private counseling practice.<br />My wife gives me a card allowance. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />barry arnold

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Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>I'm in marketing for a large financial firm in Raleigh, NC. Anyone else in North Carolina?<br /><br />I also run a charity that raises money for cancer research and other programs. If anyone's interested: www.eabfund.org.<br /><br />On a related note I had a boss tell me once I should dress for the job I want. But I thought it would be a bad idea to show up to work in a Yankee uniform.

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Posted By: <b>Mark Tylicki</b><p>I work for BearingPoint as a consultant implementing SAP software - Materials Management (MM) and Sales/Distribution (SD). Currently I'm on a project in San Jose configuring a new SAP product that screens orders for foreign trade compliance - sanctioned party lists, embargo, etc. It also generates the appropriate export/import paperwork for U.S. Customs.<br /><br />Tom - maybe we can help you <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>but mainly, I steal. <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/110103_diving_prv.gif">

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Posted By: <b>quan</b><p>used to be a computer programmer, now i help run a website with my friends, lots more money in the private sector!

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>Im a partner with a law firm. I specialize in employment law - primarily defending companies that have been sued for discrimination, harassment, etc. I also handle quite a bit of wage and hour litigation (i.e. employees who are alleging that they didnt receive overtime, etc.).<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Pcelli60</b><p>I'm a mailman in Suffolk County, Long Island New York..You can catch me in the 'cheap' seats at Shea on off days...

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Posted By: <b>Steve Dawson</b><p>I'm an active duty Air Force master sergeant. Been in the Air Force for 20 years as of last month.<br /><br /><br />Steve<br />

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Posted By: <b>ockday</b><p>Just had my 25th anniversary working in family owned business manufacturing women's and kids activewear

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Posted By: <b>Mark Evans</b><p>I'm an attorney for a small agency within the federal judiciary and promote the legislative agenda of the federal judges (salary increase, more judgeships, discretion in criminal sentencing, etc.). Eligible to retire soon and hoping to identify a second (preferably part-time) career.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Architect

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I met a 20-something woman at a dinner party who was a tax lawyer for one of those big accounting firms. She said she had troubles doing a tax related form for one of the clients, because his personal income had more digits in it than the form allowed! There literally weren't enough boxes to fit his income ... I don't know who this person was, but she had mentioned that her firm did the taxes for the Seattle Supersonics ... She said it's depressing when the margin of error in a client's income is larger than her income.

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>Nice to see this old thread come up so i could remember the good ole days when i sat around and did nothing but read about baseball.<br /><br />Now i deliver food for my friends restuarant,the one i used to manage but i realized the drivers were making more than twice what i got paid for about 1/5th the work so i stopped managing and started driving. Also when theres no deliveries i watch tv and still get paid for it.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>In my spare time, I practice tax dispute litigation with a large law firm in Vancouver BC, spending my days fighting with the Canada Revenue Agency on everything from net worth unreported income (but surely never from unreported sales of baseball cards <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>)to complex corporate tax disputes. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.blgcanada.com/professionals/bio.asp?LKey=942" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.blgcanada.com/professionals/bio.asp?LKey=942</a><br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>still in college...so i use my loan money...i think it supposed to be for books or something like that

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Posted By: <b>joe</b><p>I'm an editor at a New York City-based newspaper. Currently, Mr. Discover card pays for my purchases. I'm working on paying him back.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>don't take plastic! I did find out that some people who accept paypal don't mind if you add a credit card to your account and use it--but I believe there's some sort of drawback to seller for doing this (you're not as sure buyer won't yank the money out from under you, or something). But paypal told me that the seller of the 1919 World Series ticket stub WOULD take credit cards through paypal (nice of them, I must say--paypal, I mean), and seller confirmed it, so I now owe Visa dough and have a ticket stub.<br /><br />Terry K takes plastic, too...<br /><br />But. not. Mastro...<br /><br />Boy, you wouldn't catch ME paying for the privelege of accepting a plastic card for goods!

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Posted By: <b>Aaron</b><p>I'm an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles (cliche, I know). My wife is a litigation attorney also working in-house in the entertainment industry. I fund my collecting by maintaining an uneasy truce with my wife based on dollar-for-dollar matching of her shoes to my sports memorabilia. She has alot of shoes.

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>I am an equity trader at a hedge fund...prior to that I was a school teacher while coaching soccer, basketball and lacrosse (which I was an All-American in college).

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Posted By: <b>Ted</b><p>I was the auditor of a major bank holding company in Michigan, but my 30 year career ended about 5 years short of the perfect retirement when we were acquired. I became a synergy. So I moved to Texas, do some consulting work in regulatory compliance, security and internal audit, and play with baseball, hockey, football, basketball and boxing cards. Looking forward to the day when I can play with cards all day and dump the consulting gig. But then my kids are only 10 and 13, so I have to be somewhat of a role model and do something other than play.

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Posted By: <b>Mike Peich</b><p>Having spent the better part of my life listening to people say, "Oh, you're an English professor? My worst subject in college was English," I've learned to accept my profession. Those of us in the professoriat don't have a lot of money, so I rely on buying and selling cards off-line, and I've learned a lot in this regard from Tim Newcomb (my colleague at West Chester University), and Ron Barrett and Rand Bailey, two of the nicest dealers ever to have graced a card show. I should add that I'm two cards short of completing my <br />T-3 set (Evers and Willis), so help me out folks. <br />I'm so pleased to know who Bowling-shoe-giver-outer-guy is (Lee, I think it's a great name). Finally, my hat is off to my wife, Dianne, who accepts my habit, and believes me when I tell her that my cards are part of our retirement plans.<br /><br /> Yours in the habit, Mike

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Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>carpet store owner. <br /><br />Qualifications are 2 parts mathmagician and 2 parts psychotic and 1 part megma.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>My background is nuclear engineering, but I now flip burgers. It affords me a lot of free time to do what I want to do. I also the own and help run Attic2Cash with my brother Lee. <br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Kevin O</b><p>I'm a college professor--Medieval Religious History. I also write commissioned histories and historical survey reports for institutions looking to obtain national historic status and the accompanying shekels. My card money comes almost exclusively from that freelance writing and part-time electrician work (my Navy skill from the early eighties).

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Posted By: <b>joe maples</b><p>Worked with computers for 30 years, last job as a Data Base Administrater, got out while I was still alive. Now on the internet and going thru auction catalogs all the time. Sell new stuff to buy old stuff.<br /><br />Joe

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>Chief Public Defender for the 21st Judicial District. <br />Everything and everyone from hot check writers to serial killers. (Two last year). A little of my 60's idealism survives or else I'd go back in to private practice and make more money to spend on cards. I miss the days when I was just a trial lawyer and not trial lawyer/administrator/babysitter/mediator/referee for everyone in the office <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Richard Lloyd</b><p>I'm a rocket Scientist for an Aerospace Corp. and on Roster to the United Nations as a Trained Weapon Inspector. I am always on the go with much travel and<br />find it hard sometines bidding on ebay while I am on the road.. <br />Best

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Posted By: <b>Preece1</b><p>I am an investment banker for a German bank. I work in New York City (Midtown).

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Posted By: <b>Bryan Long</b><p>a Marketing Director for a two hospital system in Southern Ohio.

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Posted By: <b>shellyjaffe</b><p>I have been selling steel for the last thirty five years. I did have a little time off for selling forged items in the autograph business. The total time off was six months. The total cost of doing what i did was $100,000,00.

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Posted By: <b>Bill Kasel</b><p>I am a network design engineer (sales consultant <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>)for a technology firm in Madison, WI. Essentially I help businesses develop data and voice networking solutions. When I'm not doing that I am a full time husband and father of a perfect two year old son.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>I have my own engineering company that specializes in blast consulting. The 4th of July isn't quite what it used to be.<br /><br />Rob M.

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Posted By: <b>Shannon</b><p>I guess Im kinda the the jack of all trades so to say I do a little bit of everything building, plumbing, roofing just about anything to do with building or remodeling of homes

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Posted By: <b>Morrie</b><p>Another college professor here. I teach industrial psychology, specializing in personnel issues (hiring, testing, etc.). And lots of stat courses. I pay for my habit by letting my wife feed her own addiction for online gaming (rpgs, not gambling), and perhaps more importantly, by controlling the checkbook...<br /><br />Morrie