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That's fine if you want to work in a factory (which is what the Mint is). Working in the Mint may be like working in a candy store - after a while you get tired of the smell of candy and you don't want to eat candy any more.
Not only that, but if you were to take even a small piece of the candy produced at the Mint as a sample you're likely in for a very bad time.
Yeah. My job revolves around IT. There are days I get home and I don't even want to get within 500 feet of the Internet or any computer. So I sit and watch HSN for educational gratification.
All those tantalizing errors flowing through your fingers, and not one you can take! More like a nightmare job to me.
Maybe you do but not all are like that. I've known people that worked in the Baby Ruth Candy factory and they came home with boxes of the things all the time. Now what do you think would happen if you worked in a beer factory? Stop drinking beer? I don't think so. There is a Wonder Bread factory near me. I see workers taking home bread all the time. I don't think to many get tired of eating a sandwich.
My hobbies are a way to take a mental break from work. If the hobby becomes work, I would think much of the enjoyment would be gone and I'd need a new hobby.
I hear ya, I'm in the same boat...'cept it's more like I don't want to think about web-design when I get home. Luckily, though, I don't design many (read: any) websites at home. Hmm, that job IS just down the street from me (literally)...and I'd be making 3 - 4 times as much as I am now. I could resist taking any coins if it meant I could afford to buy a lot more of 'em!
I would love to work minting coins, just not for the US mint...I would like to produce my own hammered coins.
Kind of like that twilight zone episode where the guy had to spend eternity in a library, and yet his glasses broke so he couldn't read any of the books.
I agree. Its sorta like differance between an Angler and a Fisherman. One You do for fun the other is to pay the bills. That's for the ANGLERS out there in coin land. I for one couldnt have those jobs. I would be to tempted to mess around. Ya know slip a Ike Dollar under a ASE die,lol or Toss a Dime planchet where a Cent one should be. lol Or just freak out at all the error coins i would have to toss in the scrap bin. I have always thought if I ever worked at a mint. I would only last a week, for those same reasons.
Man, that to me would be a nice job. Except, like any job, it would have it's downfalls. Some of the ones already said, some that haven't been. Phoenix
So if I smashed my hand and had to rush to the emergency room for stitches, would they still stop me on the way out to check my shoes for all those error coins??
A fun 1st month or so... My hobby ( hot sauce ) turned into work, then a job, then a hassle. I sold it. When it stops being fun, time to move on.
True!! My hobby was used to be computers, then I started to work on IT area, and guess what... now I collect coins....
