[CAUT] pin drop

[Paul T Williams]

I don't think a tuner/tech ever really quits.  Look at Richard West!  He 
keeps saying he's retired, but then works a pretty fair amount including 
Aspen every summer!  Even if I won the lottery, I would use my skills as 
long as the good Lord keeps me here, but definately would scale way back! 
:>)

Paul




From:
Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
To:
caut at ptg.org
Date:
10/28/2009 04:31 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] pin drop





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
 


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