<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Median age</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I became RPT when I was 23 and felt the same way - I was the youngest guy a= t the PTG convention in 1972. But one day I was tuning a piano and the clien= t's 16-year-old son sat down to watch. We started to talk. During the conver= sation he told me that I was "over the hill." Little did he know how many more hills there were to come... <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| <BLOCKQUOTE>From: JARickson@AOL.COM Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:10:23 EST To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Median age </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>Whatever the actual median age is, people (custo= mers) seem to expect that a Piano technician is a certain age.  I am 24= and I am constantly told that "you are the youngest piano technician I= have ever met..."  This usaully makes me wonder just how many pia= no technicians they have really met to hold such expectations.   I think it works against me to a certain degree.  I get t= he sense sometimes that when I make recomendations, I am not taken as seriou= sly because of my perceieved lack of experience.  Oh well, maybe I shou= ld gain 20 pounds and grow a beard...             &n= bsp;            =             &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;            =             &nbs= p;     Jim Rickson </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>