>48 and going strong. I plan ("plan") on being here 20 years if I >can stand it that long! > >Paul Hi Paul At 48, you count as a young tuner compared to so many of my colleagues, who are pushing, at, or just past retirement. Just this morning, I thought about being 63 -- how long will I keep on? Ten years, till I'm 73? But heck, ten years! You just blink and ten years have gone by! I certainly don't want to hang up the tuning hammer in just ten years -- and what would I do with my time? But 73 -- I'd better work out some health problems if I'm even to be able to work at 73, let alone 78? If arthritis spreads from knees to shoulders and elbows and hands ...... Baby boomers -- we crowded obstetrics wards, nurseries, kindergartens, grade schools, colleges, and grad schools. Then we crowded job markets, so that new Ph.D.'s in physics ended up pumping gas for awhile. At this point, we're stressing out pension funds and preparing to bankrupt Social Security. No doubt old folks homes and mortuaries will be filled to bursting in due course. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the generation (yours) just following us. On the one hand, all that capacity built up - the new schools, etc. - on the other hand, getting caught in our "rain shadow" when looking for work, and finding everything picked clean by us. But then, once we're out of the way, you're likely to be overworked and in great demand ... I'm cutting back gradually, because I think I'll be able to work on pianos a lot longer if I don't do more than I really have the energy for. Besides, unhurried jobs are more fun. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091028/797527f7/attachment.htm>
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