Numismatics & Our Occupations

I work in marketing for a spirits company. I travel the country going to concerts and music festivals promoting our booze.
Gives me a chance to visit lots of coin shops all over the place.

Well, apparently I am being told that I must turn this thing off and come to bed ... trust me, there are worse fates.

I work in a bakery, two months left as I hate the job and don't eat bread. Also a part time reptile catcher mainly venomous snakes of southern Austrllia. I am hoping to start studyng hydrology next year, and get an engineering degree to go with it.

I am in the printing industry. Too bad it is not printing money.

I am retired now, but have had two interesting career jobs. I was a miner underground and actually did the drilling and blasting and was a shift boss with a crew of 20 to 30 people. My other job I tell people was "Wild Life Management" actually I was a Middle School Teacher grades 5 through 8. Believe me kids can do some crazy stuff!

The mine was in Colorado and produced molybdenum. Also worked in Arizona at a mine that had microscopic traces of gold. We use to call the geologists "rock lickers". Lost my shirt on a poorly planned gold mining operation in Alaska.

What an interesting thread.

After school I went into the textile industry (card room, weaver, overlooker) which I absolutely loved. Actually making something has always been far more satisfactory to me. Then (in Northern England at least) the mills got shut down due to cheap foreign imports.

Thereafter, in order, corner shop owner, rivet maker, mature student, furnace feeder, warehouseman, and last but not least (and wait for the boos) the Inland Revenue (IRS to you yanks).

Then (sort of) retirement. Currently a bar owner, which my wife runs, and a partner in a rubber plantation (currently trying to find a white horse, pith helmet, jodhpurs and a riding crop - so I can beat the natives into submission!!)


So if variety is the spice of life I should either be on a vaudeville stage or a very hot curry.