what does everyone do to pay for their habit, er, hobby?

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Posted By: warshawlaw 

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: Tom

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: john

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: Jaime Leiderman

Fast Food Franchises in Costa Rica & Venezuela.

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Posted By: Marc S.

Help lawyers figure out damage claims....

Jaime, where in Venezuela are your franchises? I'm getting married in Caracas in four months...

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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

In Caracas.

Please let me know if you need any help there, I spend almost a week every month in Venezuela.

jleiderman@hotpop.com

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Posted By: leon

try my hardest to hide it from the wife and sell computers (when they were still needed).....regards

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Posted By: runscott

...usually over a network, which explains why I'm always online!

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

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 .

Lee

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Posted By: MW

I play with baseball cards all day long!

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Posted By: HalleyGator

I'm a personal injury attorney. Our firm was one of the Florida firms to win the case against Tobacco companies.

Check me out if you care:

www.fonhink.com

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

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: Andy Baran

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: David

My wife's maiden name is Getty.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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.

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
can get away with sending me.

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.

You didn't really want to know all that, did you?

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: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Regular trips to the blood bank and organ donation center. But that is starting to take its toll.

Anyone want to buy an EXMT 18 year old boy with exceptional programming skills?

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Posted By: Anthony

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: John

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: Marty

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: Mike Williams

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: Plastic Dog

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: Lee Behrens

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.

Proud to have a title,

Lee

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Posted By: Jay Miller

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: Jim

It's only an addiction after you acknowledge it is a problem. I have no problem with it, so...
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: Jeff Obermeyer

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.

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: runscott

...early 1900's distance runner on t218

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

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?

Mr. Bowling Shoe Giver Outer Guy,

Lee

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Posted By: Jeff Obermeyer

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.

Now if only I could convince the Obermeyer ski clothes family that I'm a long lost relative...

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Posted By: Tom

in Trading places? Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice and Pork Bellies?

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Posted By: Robert

Hi Jeff--

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?

Any responses would be very much appreciated!

Robert

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Posted By: W.M.

I see dead people. I'M a Homicide Detective.

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Posted By: runscott

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Posted By: W.M.

Nope not even a dead consultant.

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Posted By: Tim

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!

Tim

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

at some point, we all got bitten by the same bug.

Julie

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Posted By: Todd (nolemmings)

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: Jeff Obermeyer

Robert,

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.

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: RB Craik

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.
Very rewarding but my wife says I smell funny.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

accounting

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Posted By: David

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: Darren J. Duet

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: Rob L

Geologist, running an environmental company that specializes in assessing and remediating contaminated soil and ground water.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

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....

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Posted By: Glenn

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: Dave Williams

I own a business selling janitorial supplies, cleaning products, and shipping supplies.

I also have 2 rental properties.

www.williamssupplycompany.com

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Posted By: barry arnold

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.
I also have a private counseling practice.
My wife gives me a card allowance.

barry arnold

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Posted By: Chris

I'm in marketing for a large financial firm in Raleigh, NC. Anyone else in North Carolina?

I also run a charity that raises money for cancer research and other programs. If anyone's interested: www.eabfund.org.

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: Mark Tylicki

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.

Tom - maybe we can help you

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Posted By: Julie

but mainly, I steal.