Age and occupation (old & new)

[Colin]

64 and the head of Fender

 

[Dizzy]

Originally Posted by Arjan
44 years old. Land Surveyor / CAD Manager

Ahhh, a fellow Surveyor

33 y.o.
Run my own Surveying & Consultancy Company.
Played since 7 - Gigged mid teens through early 20's.
Stopped playing regularly a good while ago (sport, work, wife )

Wife thinks this recent playing revival is the beginning of a mid-life crisis !

She could be right - I now spend a lot of time playing with my Balls......
OK, time for a Ferrari and a mistress !!

 

[DONALD D LAIRD]

Age and Occupation

Hi,
I'm 53 and work as a Biomedical Scientist specialising in Stem Cell Treatment. I am also a semi-professional musician (since the age of 15). I play in a theatre pit band and do sessions as well as gigging with the Conundrum Showband.
Life is never dull though!
Donald

 

[jappy]

Hi everyone,

I'm 22 and I'm an accountant.

 

[TonyEVH5150]

I'm 30, and I'm an ultrasound tech. I've been in the medical field for 10 years, and I've worked all over the south. Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama.

I've been playing guitar for 14 years. I own a EBMM Axis, a couple of Kramer and Charvel replicas. I have one acoustic, a Washburn Cumberland. I'm also a drummer, been playing since 5th grade. (most would think I still play drums at a 5th grade level anyways)

 

[candid_x]

Thanks, Foggy, for bumping this thread to current time. Fascinating reading about backgrounds of forumites.

I thought I won the oldies medal, but I guess Colin’s got me there.

My name’s Bruce, and I’m 61. In my heyday I toured as a solo singer/songwriter opener for John Prine, Leon Redbone, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, and Tim Weisberg’s band, plus session production work at Bearsville Studio in NY. After that I got into radio marketing and management for 25 years, then TV and cable. Now I do consulting, business and personal, semi-retired.

Nice to meet you all!

 

[jamminjim]

Im 55, going on 56 and I sell utah watermellons on the side of the road in the 4 corners area

 

[Astrofreq]

34 and I play guitar for a living. I play weekly at two church services as well as several other worship teams sporatically. I teach lessons to about 22 people. I play gigs occasionally with friends and sometimes weddings (not my cup 'o tea).

All of this is to support me while my rock band, The New Absolutes (see below), rises to world domination!

 

[olorin]

32 years old, Spacecraft mission controller for this company..

http://www.geoeye.com/

Been flying satellites since 1999, former Air Force space command veteran. Been playing guitar/bass since 1991.

 

[robguitar]

36 / General Manager for www.theperfectbass.com

I'm a guitarist even though I work in a bass shop. We're opening The Perfect Guitar in Jan. 07.

I play guitar in Dorothy Jane (www.myspace.com/dorothyjane), I'm also finishing my degree at LSU.

Damn glad to be here.

 

[fogman]

robguitar!

Welcome.

Great stuff guys!
Keep it coming.

 

[67tele]

Hello I'm 52, A Construction Production Manager.Been playing on and off for 35 years.No band stuff right now as I'm getting over some health Issues. Building a Recording studio right now. Nothing too fancy but a good Quality studio.Have alot of Fender Teles and Strats but Am really in Love with my Axis SS Rosewood. Have'nt touched any other Guitars for a couple months. I Have an AL on order should be here late November. Waiting very patiently........ NOT! I Think the Music man stuff is fantastic ,very happy with mine. Love seeing all the cool guitars on this site. And enjoy reading and talking with all

 

[Greg Jones]

I'm 40. I work as a Quality Assurance Engineer for PGP Corporation. We make encryption software. It's a cool gig but very demanding. I'm an ex bass player of nearly fifteen years who put it down for nearly 10. When I came back to music I decided to go the six string route, which is what I had started with in HS. I'm a husband and father. My daughter is 3. Work and family consumes most of my time. I am currently in 'woodshed' mode but am having a blast just playing again. I currently have a couple PRSi. Got a Silo and Luke on layaway though and can't wait to get 'em home.

When I stopped playing bass many, many years ago my Sterling was my number one. Best bass I'd ever played!!! So of course checking out EBMM guitars was a natural choice.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Maybe I should do and update?!

I am now 32, and work for a local council doing desktop IT support. All the users are Win 2K/XP though there are some Mac's on the network. I currently do an average of 3 gigs a week with various bands I play with, my favourite being Rough Justice! www.roughjusticerock.com

I have a fantastic girlfriend who sadly lives in Virginia, though it means a good excuse to cross the Atlantic whenever I can! (Been to the USA 3 times this year!)

 

[Bud]

Hi Folks, Great thread!
I'm 45 (just...3rdOct) and play guitar full time in a club/functions band. My wife is Liza from the Philippines who I met whilst working in Dubai and we have one son called Thomas.

 

[w34payton]

33

Billing and Payroll manager in the Elevator Industry in a one-story building which I think is ironic. It has its ups and downs. If one of these Elevator union guys doesn't get paid correctly I could end up burried under the next stadium being built. Hopefully I'll get my new axis and play it once before that happens.

 

[robelinda2]

33

Billing and Payroll manager in the Elevator Industry in a one-story building which I think is ironic. It has its ups and downs.

love it

 

[Lucidology]

Guissippi Dominic Lucido... Fulltime guitarist located in Monterey CA...

Gig 4 to 9 times a week depending on the Season...
(often 3 back to back gigs on any given Saturday during the Summer season...)

Play in 3 bands.... On call hired-gun...
Play with a multi-cultural dance troupe...
Work as a solo and/or duet 'Smooth Jazz' act ...

Also 'On Call' studio musician for more then a few studios
& have clients up & down the Central Coast...

Have played in every state but two (the two you can't get to by car...?) numerous times... (was on the road touring for almost 12 years of my life..)

Here's my Myspace page if you're at all curious:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=42887238

 

[Elmer Imperial]

OK, I'll bite.

I'm 41 (but have been accused of behaving like I'm 21 ) and work as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. Woohoo! Not exactly my dream job, but they pay me way more than I'm worth, which allows me to buy.... more guitars!

I live out my rock-n-roll guitar hero fantasies a couple of weekends a month playing in a cover band with guys that are WAY better musicians than I am, and I absolutely love it.

 

[surrealforreal]

36 years old and I'm bogged down by two jobs. One is a commercial air system salesman/engineer and the other is a theoretical physicist with the Fitz-Gibbon group.
The Big Bang is wrong.