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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>This was a good thread from about 3 1/2 years ago started by Adam W. Let's try it again...<br /><br />I sell computers to small to large business...pc's, s/w. lan,wan etc.. Been doing it quite a while. I am addicted...I mean I collect vintage baseball cards too....and run a chatboard for those affected..uh..er..I mean in the hobby....regards

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>just left the military....now a grad student<br /><br />Brian E

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Posted By: <b>BlackSoxFan</b><p>Jack of all trades....<br><br>Regards,<br /><br />Black Sox Fan<br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br /><a href="http://www.blacksoxfan.com" target="new" border="0"><img src="http://www.blacksoxfan.com/images/art/sig.jpg"></a><br /><a href=mailto:shoelessjoe@blacksoxfan.com?subject=Ne t54>email me</a><br /><br />* I'm smart enough to know that there are a lot of people who know more than I do.

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>Professional Gambler.<br /><br />Well... I am an attorney working on a strict contingent fee system where I front 100% of the litigation costs for my clients and get NOTHING back unless I win the case...<br /><br />so I guess you see what I mean. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Guys like Peter -- who defend the evil greedy corporations that intentionally put profits over safety --are the "pit bosses" who are just trying to keep all of the money in house.<br /><br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Kevin Cummings</b><p>I manage the order processing and master file maintenence department for Pearson Education, the world's leading education company. Pearson publishes textbooks, multimedia programs and online services.

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BNYAS001.jpg"> <br /><br />I get paid nothin' for giving art and architecture tours at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and also taking 4-6th graders, and 9-12graders, around, prepartatory to their learning something about ink brush painting.<br /><br />I get a small amount of money from the government every month (since I only earned a small amount of money), and I have about 1 1/2 years to go on my mother's trust fund (not to be confused with the large amount of money my step=mother left me, which is now gone...except from some cardboard rectangles)...

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Posted By: <b>Peter_Spaeth</b><p>Defending corporate America against greedy, rapacious, throw-it-against-the-wall-and-hope-it-sticks, ambulance chasing plaintiffs' lawyers. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>sales ,more sales and more sales.<br /><br />Carpet store owner,real estate- cherry picking.

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Posted By: <b>Paul Stratton</b><p>I played the mini-tours for 8 years with some success. Now I give lessons to people who pay me handsomely to tell them they are getting better, when in reality they will only become more frustrated and thus...need more lessons. <br /><br />...and I sell raw desert outside Phoenix...for anyone interested in making 11% compound interest...of course that will never compare to doubling up on old pieces of cardboard.

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>Sell stuff on ebay.

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Posted By: <b>eric p.</b><p>i own a demolition and construction clean up company.

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Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>I help people achieve the American Dream. (no, not ownership of a t206 Wagner).....I'm an honest mortgage broker.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>jjflit</b><p>have only posted a few times<br />union sheetmetal worker-support my family<br />gambling and e-bay -to support my habit

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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>I don't know if Hal was kidding or not about himself....but for me, all the cards I buy are from gambling winnings.

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Posted By: <b>Bill Kasel</b><p>I design data and IP voice enabled networks for businesses in Wisconsin and Illinois. Then I let the real smart people of the firm implement and maintain them. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Bill <br />"The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert"

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Posted By: <b>daviddbreadman</b><p>I am an equity trader and try to only buy cards with profits. Sometimes it works, sometimes I buy anyway.

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Posted By: <b>Lyle</b><p>and , man ,is there a lot of stuff on this board thats fascinating from a professional standpoint ! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>joe maples</b><p>I used to work, now retired. I sold and sell things I bought in the 1970's and 80's and sell on ebay.

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Posted By: <b>Kenny Cole</b><p> I try to protect the working people of this nation against the corporate pirates represented by people like Peter Spaeth. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> BTW, in case there is any question, persons against anyone lawsuits are way down, nationwide -- corporations againts corporations lawsuits are way up, nationwide. There is no lawsuit crisis, except the pretend one fomented by the evil corporate types, and those who stand to make money by being absolved of liability regardless of culpability. Fighting against the tyranny of the rich is what I do.<br /><br />Kenny Cole

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Posted By: <b>Elliot</b><p>I used to be a baseball card forum moderator, now I don't have a job.

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>I am a retired Electronics Engineer that worked at Bell<br />Laboratories for 30 years in the Data Communications Dept.<br /><br />LEON<br />I designed all those various Modems that you interface<br />your Computers with so that they can communicate via<br />Telephone Lines or higher speed transmission systems.<br /><br />This career provided for my 1st wife and two daughters and<br />paid for a lot of neat looking cardboard "goodies" along the<br />way.<br /><br />Also, I was a Radar specialist in the US Air Force (1960-'64).

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Posted By: <b>Steve Dawson</b><p>I enlisted in the US Air Force 21 years ago...still at it.<br /><br /><br />Steve<br />

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Posted By: <b>Sean Coe</b><p>I'm a Librarian.

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Posted By: <b>andy becker</b><p>i make poke chops

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Posted By: <b>Keith</b><p>I'm a veterinarian but pay for most of my fun stuff with ebay profits

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Posted By: <b>DSGreen</b><p>I am a Behavioral Psychologist.

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>i'm a medical ethics prof. and director of a Center for Health Care Ethics but stick any extra bucks from that career into<br />a retirement account.<br />my card buying comes mainly from my wonderful wife who sells<br />real estate that we acquired over the years---thank goodness<br />folks still want to live on the gulf of mexico,even though it's hurricane alley.<br /><br />barry

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>I deliver dead animal parts to people in the form of cooked food.I used to manage the restaurant but i realized the drivers had an easier job and made more money and got to listen to music all day and drive around so i fired a driver and demoted myself. Now im broke and spend my days on the computer and walking the boardwalk(im only 1 mile from the Atlantic Ocean) but my jobs easy and i make my own hours

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Posted By: <b>steve yawitz</b><p>I teach fourth grade. And, of course, conduct periodic eBay fire sales so I can buy more cards.

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Posted By: <b>Tom</b><p>I rarely post comments, but I thought I would respond to this post.<br /><br />I am a high school teacher and coach Freshmen football and baseball. My coaching checks goto financing my "fix" of vintage cards. I also love to play texas hold'em...my winnings go to card purchases. <br /><br />Interesting to see what everyone does for a living. <br />I enjoy the site. <br />Tom

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>I'm a criminal defense attorney in NYC...and despite just completing the trial of my life I managed to buy about 20 cards in the midst of it. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>I'm an equipment maintenance technician in the semiconductor industry. The last 3 years I've been working on copper electro platers, & the 10 years before that, I worked on thin films/hivac tools.

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Posted By: <b>Ed McCollum</b><p>Spent 20 years in advertising, starting as a finish artist and working up to creative director. Started collecting T206s during that time.<br /><br />Sept. 12, 2001, my employer lost his largest account, an airline manufacturer. I lost my job soon after. <br /><br />Found work as the art director for a non-profit provider of services and supports to the mentally retarded/developmentally disabled, with locations in 51 cities in 15 states. The pay is not nearly as good, haven't bought a card in just over four years, but I'm home every night by six, and have seen more of my wife and son in the past four years than the thirteen before combined. <br /><br />Life is good.

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Posted By: <b>Frank Evanov</b><p>Gastroenterologist...no jokes please!<br><br>Frank

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Hey Jeff, will we be seeing you on an episode of Growing Up Gotti soon? <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Mark Tylicki</b><p>I work for BearingPoint as a SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) and Materials Management consultant.<br><br>------------------------------<br />MY COLLECTION: <a href="http://www.rustywilly.com/MYCOLLECTION.htm" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.rustywilly.com/MYCOLLECTION.htm</a>

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>Although most of my buying cache comes from ebay sales of attic treasures I accumulated long ago, I am Chief Public Defender for the 21st Jud.Dist.

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Posted By: <b>Cobby33</b><p>My answer is: What Peter said. Civil litigator. Keepin' it real, as it were.

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Posted By: <b>Tim Newcomb</b><p>I am an English professor at the University of Illinois, specializing in the history of American poetry and film studies.

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Posted By: <b>Brian Lindholme</b><p>I have a good job being a technical manager for a large communications company. I get to live a mile from the Pacific Ocean. I only have to work like a mule 8 days a week, drive thousands of miles per month and then get home to sort our old cardboard after a visit with the wife and kids.<br />But I built the bulk of my collection back in the good old days when I was a single guy managing and tending a bar...tips=HOFers !!<br /><br />Great topic!<br />Great forum!<br /><br />familytoad<br />Brian

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>Dan...doubtful. Though I should never say never - I did appear on a certain person's radio show the day after the trial....incredibly, I had agreed to go on win or lose - but after winning it was much sweeter, for sure.

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Posted By: <b>Geno</b><p>I have spent my last 15 years flying airplanes for the USAF, but am now on a three year exchange tour flying with the Royal Air Force in the UK. I'm trying not to get hooked on non-sports tobacco cards, but some are pretty cool over here! Don't do it, don't do it...

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Posted By: <b>Richard</b><p>Slave to the silicon in the valley, doing my best to not get laid off or phased out by a facility in China.<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>When I say I flip burgers for aliving, I am serious. I've slowly worked my way down the economic food chain, going from working in a nuclear power plant to flipping burgers. I am much happier doing this than anything except the gaming and comic store I owned in CA.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>beverly hills gigolo...(sidejob)<br /><br />custody officer la county sheriff department<br />pete-<br /><br />just kidding about the gigolo

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Posted By: <b>scott ingold</b><p>I grew up in a commercial fishing family. When the fish disappeared i sold the waterfront real estate across from manhattan, and now work part time at a bait and tackle store and spend some time on the bay supplying bait to fisherman. The rest of my busy life is taking care of my 5 and 9 year olds, and buying cardboard with funny pics.

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Posted By: <b>Paul Lehr</b><p>My jobs: <br /><br />1)Operations Manager for a large food wholesaler - This pays all the bills and buys me cards.<br /><br />2)Wannabe Air Brush Artist.<br /><br />3)Wannabe Tattoo Artist.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Mike H</b><p>Pharmaceutical sales for my living, ebay and direct to collector sales for my hobby.

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Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>Architect, now working mostly in Miami where we live and Central America. Used to work mostly in Boston where I lived with many projects in New Jersey, New Mexico and Colorado.

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Posted By: <b>Bryan Long</b><p>Marketing Manager for a Health Systems in South Eastern Ohio.