There were several weird printers & laminators, & I didn’t have the necessary experience to easily know what was what.
When people question me what I do for a living I tell them I am an opportunist, because in reality I don’t have a job title, and I am self employed. I basically engage in a style of making money that can most favorably be described as “catch as catch can.” I do a ton of freelancing, some salvage work, but mostly I just look for potential investment opportunities to make a quick profit. I freely admit this kind of work has a lot of down time & is rife with worry over where your next check will come from. It also leads to a whole lot of rewards, such as when the commercial printer business went out of business & left behind a huge warehouse full of valuable stuff. The owner was trying to unload it all & just get out of town, so she called me to take a look at the sizable inventory of commercial printing products she had to get rid of. There were several weird printers & laminators, & I didn’t have the necessary experience to easily know what was what. I called a good buddy of mine who used to have contacts with government & military PR departments for label production & the like. When I explained to him there were a half dozen unused Gerber label printers there, he told me to just purchase everything & he would help me resell it for a hefty profit. I didn’t end up selling everything I purchased that day, but most of those commercial printers sold a lot like hotcakes & I made a pretty decent profit.