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Posted By: barrysloate

There's no question in my mind there is turnover. Even though we may all love to handle baseball cards, I would say the job of grader is both boring and endlessly repetitive, not much different from entering information into a computer all day. I'm sure one's eyes are tired at the end of the day and burnout is probably a frequent occurence. While many of the top graders stay for extended periods I'd bet that many of the entry level people don't stay very long. And that may go a long way in explaining the various errors that are found on the labels. Think about grading cards eight hours a day five days a week for months and years on end and you can just imagine how the grader's mind starts to wander as he puts himself on automatic pilot. Not a job I would covet.