AGE/DEMOGRAPHICS/CAREER

Old enough to know better, but young enough to do it again...

 

48 yrs. Male Plumber/Pipefitter by trade.

A few more years and you can say you lived it twice

 

40 yo Male. Was an electrician, now in college to become a Nurse. What a twisted world we live in.

 

Old enough to know what's right but young enough not to choose it. I'm a New World Man. Ok, I may have stolen that one from Rush.

Actually that sounds about right, 29 and an Investment Adviser. If we are to truly prepare, we must also be prepared for things to not go kablooie. So I save and invest just the same as I keep weeks of food in the house. I enjoy life with my wife and child, company trips, save for retirement, stuff like that. Always up my sleeve or in my back pocket or the back of my mind though, lies an exit strategy.

 

40, male, Database Developer -Looking for something new, just don't know what yet.

 

That's a good point. We can prep all day long but we need to continue planning for the future and eventual retirement.

On the bright side we can live of preps for a while after we retire if needed, LOL.

 

Just because you retire doesn't mean you don't need your preps any more.

We've been "fully" retired for about 13 years now and still keep up with the rotation of LTS food and even accumulation of things we didn't think of over the 20 years before that...and things that we didn't have a need for then (like medications).

We spent most of our working lives prepping for either SHTF or a comfortable retirement.

Neither my wife or I have much chance of surviving much more than 6 mos after SHTF these days...but the kids and grandkids deserve a shot at a full life.

 

I was referring to someone that has a ton of preps and never bothered to plan for retirement. You know, if your dirt poor when you retire you can at least survive off of your preps.

 

Just turned 62, IT supervisor/retired (3 years now)

 

Okay, late 40s (I'm not ashamed of my age), female, bookstore manager.

 

32, male, (another) pipefitter, married, 2 kids (so far), and a small farm of animals.

 

I'll see your 'old enough to have used AOL', and raise you 'old enough to remember before hard drives on PCs', old man.

 

Remember them!? I used to work on them.

 

39.5 and holding, I drive roadgrader's....and i like midget's.

 

Do you like really small race cars too?

 

I think they are cute and awesome at the same time with all those pony's under the hood.

 

50 yo married male. Mechanic moonlighting as a sound technician. My children are older than some in this thread

 

53 years young going on 75; Professional divorcee (Trice married ); plumber; Special Ed. school Teacher; bouncer; college prof; Dish washer; world traveler; Solider of fortune; Carpenter; Computer repair Hack; wanna-a-be farmer; hand gun instructor to the rich and dumb. 2 boys of my own, One daughter; One old neutered cat that is blind; one useless pound save hound that is so lazy it won't scratch its own fleas; and that is just the list of stuff the statue of limitations is out on....

Do you remember FORTRAN and COBOL....? back in the late 70's iirc.
Been Hell of a ride..