<HTML>Whatever the actual median age is, people (customers) 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 piano technicians they have really met to hold such expectations.   I think it works against me to a certain degree.  I get the sense sometimes that when I make recomendations, I am not taken as seriously because of my perceieved lack of experience.  Oh well, maybe I should gain 20 pounds and grow a beard...                                                                                  Jim Rickson</HTML>