What is your age? poses an interesting question, but the age categories had some room for improvement. So I thought that I would start a new poll with with a better distribution of age groups. As with the other poll, this is a public poll. People can click on the numbers to see who voted and for which option.

December 14, 2006 Update
I plan to keep this poll open after the year changes. So it will morph into a poll something like: "What was your age in 2006?" This will keep all of the votes on a level playing field. That's why I have added the years to the poll.

Perderabo! You're old! And it is absolutely amazing that you keep doing all these new and crazy things with systems (I would call an octuple boot laptop crazy). I wonder how old Jim (McNamara) is? In one old thread I remember him saying that he started his first job back in the sixties...

Hmmmph... I'm just getting started! My first IT job was in the 60's too. But my mom had to drive me because I was too young to get a drivers license. The first system that I got paid to program was the IBM 1130.

It would be interesting to see if we have anyone lying in 91 or older age group And it would also be more interesting if Perderabo throws some light on nature of his first job got in the 60's, when even UNIX was not distributed, maybe as a COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN or even assemgly programmer or as a computer operator, btw computer operator job in those days was not so easy also.

Meanwhile its nice to have someone experieced like Perderabo between us, who still has energy to do crazy things like octuple boot laptop

Cheers,
Tayyab

Someone's first job is going to be more interesting than a a 91+ aged person with nothing better to do than to communicate on a UNIX forum to people, who for the most part are working in IT jobs???

If I'm communicating on this forum when and if I reach 70+ there is something seriously wrong. I hope to be standing in a stream fishing, traveling the US and Europe, teaching and stugying theology, and many other things than to work through shell and awk scripting.

I would want to know more than anything else when someone 70+ surfaces in this forum is why, why, why?

Travelling I'm doing now. Why wait until I'm too old to enjoy it (I tour on a motorcycle).

First job would be picking tomatoes in San Diego. Then Marine Infantryman, then Army Military Police. Then Army Graphics Artist. Then a part time BASIC programmer working on Leading Edge, TRS-80, and Franklin PCs.

My dad was a computer person in the Navy and told me never to get in the computer field. There's no future unless you want to spend your time inside the systems dusting.

Hey, not everyone is Nostradamus

Carl

Why not? If I wanted to travel or teach theology, that is what I would be doing NOW. I would not wait until I'm 70+ to finally enter my chosen field. I entered my chosen field at age 15. I actually would be interested to hear how you selected your path. It seems as odd as the reverse...wanting to be in IT, but spending a few decades studying and teaching theology first.

I take a hiatus every 20 years or so and I'm on one now. But I plan to resume my career next year and work past age 70. And winning the lottery tomorrow would not change that. So I plan to be working at age 71 for sure. I do plan to retire sometime during my 70's, but I will continue to use computers as a user and a hobbyist. And I see no reason that I could not be a contributing member of this forum past age 100 (umm, well, ...assuming the forum survives that long).