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Title: Average age of screen printers
Post by: rmonks on December 29, 2011, 07:06:20 AM
I was wondering what the average age was of the screen printer population. Could someone start a poll. I am 58
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Post by: Denis Kolar on December 29, 2011, 07:17:05 AM
35 and learning
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Post by: GraphicDisorder on December 29, 2011, 07:42:36 AM
32. 
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Post by: Binkspot on December 29, 2011, 07:59:08 AM
41 but I feel like 21
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Post by: inkman996 on December 29, 2011, 08:00:26 AM
32.

32? Wow I thought you were 22 ;D

Me 38
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Post by: GraphicDisorder on December 29, 2011, 08:13:40 AM
32.

32? Wow I thought you were 22 ;D

Me 38

Negative Ghost rider.  LOL 

I feel like im 40 though.  LOL
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Post by: theSignShop on December 29, 2011, 08:23:43 AM
63...only 3 clicks to R&R (retirement & recreation)
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Post by: Frog on December 29, 2011, 08:30:03 AM
So, add your votes to the poll people!  Don't make monks do all of the work!  ;D
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Post by: theSignShop on December 29, 2011, 08:58:00 AM
Looks like the youngsters and the oldsters are neck-in-neck.
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Post by: blue moon on December 29, 2011, 09:16:50 AM
43
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Post by: alan802 on December 29, 2011, 09:25:03 AM
34 with a very used up 50 year old body.  I should have taken better care of myself, I'm falling apart.
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Post by: Frog on December 29, 2011, 09:33:03 AM
63, and I'm a stud!  ;)
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Post by: Nation03 on December 29, 2011, 09:36:09 AM
I'm 22. Feel 42. Started printing when I was 17.
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Post by: Catnhat on December 29, 2011, 09:36:50 AM
40
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Post by: GraphicDisorder on December 29, 2011, 09:45:56 AM
I'm 22. Feel 42. Started printing when I was 17.

Wish I started printing seriously by that age, you have the potential to become great early in life!
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Post by: Nation03 on December 29, 2011, 09:49:30 AM
Thanks, I hope so! lol If I can fully retire in my 40's that would be ideal.
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Post by: GraphicDisorder on December 29, 2011, 10:06:18 AM
Thanks, I hope so! lol If I can fully retire in my 40's that would be ideal.

It's not that unrealistic if you make the right moves. 

I personally hope by my late 40's or early 50's I will be around, but mostly just to collect money from my shop.  LOL
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Post by: sweetts on December 29, 2011, 10:20:50 AM
38 started 2 years ago part time but getting slowly bigger.

Sent  from samsung gem(the worst smart phone ever)
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Post by: 3Deep on December 29, 2011, 11:07:56 AM
I,m 46 and feel like 26 some days but most days I feel my age
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Post by: Prosperi-Tees on December 29, 2011, 12:02:06 PM
Im 36 and looking forward to the next 20 years.
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Post by: nobrainsd on December 29, 2011, 12:47:56 PM
52, I dress like I'm still in the seventh grade (t shirt, shorts and slaps), drink like I'm in college  and wake up feeling like my Dad.

Once I get sliced for the bone spur in my hand and get a new set of glasses I'll be good for at least a year?

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Post by: tpitman on December 29, 2011, 01:20:59 PM
61. . .  It ain't pretty.
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Post by: Shawn (EIP) on December 29, 2011, 01:39:09 PM
31-35 seems to be the middle finger of chart   8)
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Post by: Sbrem on December 29, 2011, 01:46:11 PM
59, the big 60 in April. Just how did that happen? You younger guys just wait, you blink and you're old...

Steve
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Post by: Homer on December 29, 2011, 02:01:09 PM
just turned 30, my plan has always been to retire in me early 40's. I'm ready now though.
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Post by: screenxpress on December 29, 2011, 02:36:25 PM
67 and coasting a little.....
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Post by: Donnie on December 29, 2011, 02:39:42 PM
Just hit 56. Didn't start printing till I was 40 and still haven't grown up according to my wife.
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Post by: Big Frank Sports on December 29, 2011, 02:51:30 PM
45 and feeling like 80....

Frank
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Post by: ftembroidery on December 29, 2011, 02:53:03 PM
63.
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Post by: Gabe on December 29, 2011, 04:37:37 PM
40 going to party for the new year`s like 1999
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Post by: Dottonedan on December 29, 2011, 04:56:06 PM
45.   I swear I was 30 just last year.  I feel like 55 but think like I'm 20...so my wife says. :)
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Post by: Mr Tees!! on December 29, 2011, 05:34:37 PM
...Forty-one, in real time. From the neck up, maybe thirteen. From the neck down, equivalent to eighty-something.
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Post by: royster13 on December 29, 2011, 07:44:15 PM
I am 54 but the last squeegee I pulled was in my 20s.....Did not take me long to figure out all the money was in selling, not in production....
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Post by: squeegee on December 29, 2011, 08:18:13 PM
I am 54 but the last squeegee I pulled was in my 20s.....Did not take me long to figure out all the money was in selling, not in production....

Ya know I think a lot of us are in the printing business to create, or tinker, or play...if I were just selling all day, calls, pushing paper or whatever selling all day means, I think I would find something else to satisfy my love of being part of a creative process.
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Post by: Printficient on December 29, 2011, 08:44:24 PM
Just turned the big 50.  started printing when I was 37
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Post by: jsheridan on December 29, 2011, 10:30:50 PM
Turned 40 this year

Pulled my first squeegee when I was 14, sold my first shirt when I was 15.
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Post by: royster13 on December 30, 2011, 12:38:24 AM
I am 54 but the last squeegee I pulled was in my 20s.....Did not take me long to figure out all the money was in selling, not in production....

Ya know I think a lot of us are in the printing business to create, or tinker, or play...if I were just selling all day, calls, pushing paper or whatever selling all day means, I think I would find something else to satisfy my love of being part of a creative process.

So long as you do not think you are in it for the money!....
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Post by: stitches4815 on December 30, 2011, 08:48:53 AM
Just turned 51.  Been pulling a squeegee for 4yrs (yes, I started late in life).  Had a large order before Christmas and decided to try this new fangled way of printing, I pushed the squeegee.  Worked nice.  You can teach an old dog new tricks.
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Post by: Chadwick on December 30, 2011, 11:55:58 AM
41.
Someone ( who was wise, it seems ) told me to stay away from screenprinting when I was about 16.
I listened, for awhile. Been doing this since I was 30.
Art, well.. If getting paid for what you do on a regular basis makes you a professional  :P, that's been going on since I was about 20.
Come to think of it... I did my first 'paying gig' shirt design when I was about 16.
My lineart didn't suck, but what they did with the rubylith ( or amber or whatever ) wasn't all that.
I think I may still have that shirt in a box someplace..
Maybe it was motivation?
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Post by: Scobey Peterman on December 30, 2011, 12:02:16 PM
I will be 55 in Feb.  Been printing since I was 32,but have seen screen printing since I was about 5.

Happy New Years everyone!
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Post by: squeegee on December 30, 2011, 09:56:45 PM
I am 54 but the last squeegee I pulled was in my 20s.....Did not take me long to figure out all the money was in selling, not in production....

Ya know I think a lot of us are in the printing business to create, or tinker, or play...if I were just selling all day, calls, pushing paper or whatever selling all day means, I think I would find something else to satisfy my love of being part of a creative process.

So long as you do not think you are in it for the money!....

Presumptuous on your part.  Since you're not in production how would you know there is "no" money in it?

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Post by: JayzTeez on December 30, 2011, 10:34:13 PM
33 here started printing at 26
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Post by: David005 on December 30, 2011, 10:59:19 PM
I'm in it for the money , it just happens that I love what I do, I started selling then found money in production especially after first auto, I'm 33 been doing it for 4 years now.
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Post by: Fluid on December 31, 2011, 12:32:04 PM
39 been playing in the industry since 93. @DTD we know how you think LOL
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Post by: Quaddaddy on December 31, 2011, 12:38:20 PM
33, I started when I was 26 and still working a government job.  It's been 3 1/2 years since I went full time.
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Post by: ole jobe on December 31, 2011, 03:12:45 PM
Not sure.
Psychologically 6 (I get along real well with little kids)
Emotionally 16 (you know how up and down teenagers are)
Physically about 40 (I can still outwork most of them)
Chronically (I've heard all my life that the Gregorian calendar is wrong. If so, then who can tell)
Looking forward to my 81st New Year party tonight (with my wife)
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Post by: mk162 on January 02, 2012, 12:19:11 PM
31, been around printing since i was 5.  full time since 1999...owned it since 2008.
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Post by: Tees4U on January 02, 2012, 06:40:51 PM
49
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Post by: rmonks on January 02, 2012, 06:46:33 PM
Looks like the people between 41 and 50 come to their senses and get out of the business.
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Post by: Frog on January 02, 2012, 07:05:43 PM
Looks like the people between 41 and 50 come to their senses and get out of the business.

Then start up again in a few years when they can't pay their bills  ;D
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Post by: sportsshoppe on January 03, 2012, 09:18:44 AM
49 and holding!!! I will not grow any older I refuse toooooo!!!
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Post by: ebscreen on January 03, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Turned 30 in October. First Speedball kit at 14. I'd like to retire this year.
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Post by: ftembroidery on January 06, 2012, 02:56:55 PM
Yesterday we had record high temps (70), and being one of the 8 in the last catagory really had an impact on me....I got complemented on my alligator shoes.....only problem was, I was barefoot at the time.