average age?, previous profession?

[pianolover 88]

<<For those who became techs after a first career, what did this first 
career
consist in? What was your job?
I'm just curious about this! This is interesting.
Quentin>>


At 16 I was a shoe salesman. Since then I've been a disc jockey (radio & 
clubs), actor, ventriloquist (appeared on several TV shows and made a few 
commercials) and then "discovered" this profession, which I LOVE and only 
wish I had started 20 years earlier!
Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: &quot;Doug Renz Piano Tuning&quot; &lt;pianotuner@frontiernet.net&gt;
Reply-To: Pianotech &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;
To: &quot;'Pianotech'&quot; &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;
Subject: RE: average age?, previous profession?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:53:19 -0500

Hi Quentin,



Good question.  I started as a piano tech after my &quot;first&quot; career 
went south
or east/west, LOL.  I was a computer tech and most of the jobs went outside
of the US, so the job pool of available positions in my field were few and
there were many high paid out of work computer techs like myself out of work
for long periods of time.  A good friend encouraged me to look into piano
tuning and the rest is history.  I found that I love this profession better
than what I was doing before.  I'm glad that I am changing careers from
Information Technology to &quot;Piano Technology&quot;.  I guess you could 
say from
the survey I'm the 2nd youngest guy here at 35, I'm glad I started when I
did.  I have 4 young boys, who are interested in what I am doing and want to
learn the profession to. So I hope to bring my sons into the field as they
grow older.



Doug Renz

Associate PTG

Rochester, New York

pianotuner@frontiernet.net







   _____

From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Quentin Codevelle
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:10 PM
To: pianotech
Subject: average age?



Hi,



So, according to all the replies you've sent, I can deduce that I'm the
youngest tech of the list !



So I was not wrong when I said I was a young tech, don't you think ;-) ??



BTW, at what age did each of you began learning this profession? It looks
like some people have started in this business after stopping another
activity.

For those who became techs after a first career, what did this first career
consist in? What was your job?



I'm just curious about this! This is interesting.



Quentin