I'm 32....I went to Piano Technology school at Western Iowa Tech fresh out of high school. I think the odds of having SS by the time I hit retirement age are slim and will have to try to build up my retirement fund as much as possible so I'll probably end up working for as long as I physically can. -- Tony Graves RPT Piano Technician School of Music Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 (765) 285-0053 On 10/28/09 4:18 PM, "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> wrote: >Everyone is getting fatter... True enough! But maybe the demographic problem is with the benches, not the students and profs. Were most of them bought at around the same time? Maybe they all are getting decrepit and senile at once? Come to that, aren't most of the piano techs getting decrepit and (hopefully not) senile in lockstep with each other? Who is going to replace us in ten or twenty more years? Shall we do a little informal CAUT survey --- how old is everybody? Retirements imminent? Plans for how long to keep working? (only if you feel like telling us, of course.) I consider myself just passing through the outer fringe of semi-retirement. I've cut back general work about 30%, but still do all the concerts. I've started turning down (or trying to pass on) work involving tilting pianos, upright players still containing player actions, and square grands. I do lots of small repairs, some repinning and rebushing now and then, but full stringing and parts replacement I pass on to someone who does it full time. Susan Kline, 63
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