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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Better to be over the hill than under
it!!!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG<BR>Santa =
Clara,
California<BR><A href="mailto:cmpiano@attbi.com">cmpiano@attbi.com</A> =
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href="mailto:jkanter@rollingball.com">Jason
Kanter</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 30, =
2002 5:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Median age</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I became RPT when I was 23 and felt the same way - I =
was the
youngest guy at the PTG convention in 1972. But one day I was tuning a =
piano
and the client's 16-year-old son sat down to watch. We started to =
talk. During
the conversation he told me that I was "over the hill." <BR><BR>Little =
did he
know how many more hills there were to come...<BR><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>From: </B>JARickson@AOL.COM<BR><B>Reply-To:
</B>pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Date: </B>Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:10:23
EST<BR><B>To: </B>pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: Median
age<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2>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.
<BR> 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...
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bsp; Jim
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