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<p>[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 7922383, member: 13307"]I have TRIED and TRIED and TRIED to get hired at any coin shop. The best I've gotten was being given occasional worthwhile consignments (short term) and usually really, really terrible consignments (the coin shop owner literally saying to me "There's nothing valuable in here, get what you can get for it." And I still made them money.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, I specialize in world coins, die varieties, I do my own coin imaging and I'm familiar selling online in a number of different ways. I'm trustworthy, I show up early and I work hard and hate taking breaks...</p><p><br /></p><p>...and yet I'm not directly related to anyone who owns a coin shop, and my political leanings (even though I refuse to bring stuff like that and religion up when I'm at work unless forced into the conversation) differ from most coin shop owners. So I'm completely unhirable. LCS back home would rather hire a high school kid with zero knowledge over me, as long as they align with their political views.</p><p><br /></p><p>(<i>Just to be clear, I'm not stating what my political views are, or that mine are any better than others - just that mine differ from most coin shop owners and that's a problem for them.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>That's the reality of it (from my perspective.) So I gave up even trying to get hired to do an honest day's work and resign myself to cherrypicking and sorting through junk bins and boxes of nothing for something that I on which can make a little money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 7922383, member: 13307"]I have TRIED and TRIED and TRIED to get hired at any coin shop. The best I've gotten was being given occasional worthwhile consignments (short term) and usually really, really terrible consignments (the coin shop owner literally saying to me "There's nothing valuable in here, get what you can get for it." And I still made them money. No, I specialize in world coins, die varieties, I do my own coin imaging and I'm familiar selling online in a number of different ways. I'm trustworthy, I show up early and I work hard and hate taking breaks... ...and yet I'm not directly related to anyone who owns a coin shop, and my political leanings (even though I refuse to bring stuff like that and religion up when I'm at work unless forced into the conversation) differ from most coin shop owners. So I'm completely unhirable. LCS back home would rather hire a high school kid with zero knowledge over me, as long as they align with their political views. ([I]Just to be clear, I'm not stating what my political views are, or that mine are any better than others - just that mine differ from most coin shop owners and that's a problem for them.[/I]) That's the reality of it (from my perspective.) So I gave up even trying to get hired to do an honest day's work and resign myself to cherrypicking and sorting through junk bins and boxes of nothing for something that I on which can make a little money.[/QUOTE]
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