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View Poll Results: How Old Are You?
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20 to 30
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31 to 40
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61.11% |
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41 to 50
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16.67% |
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11.11% |
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07-15-2004, 07:43 PM
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B&B Tree
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: LaGrangeville, N.Y.
USDA Zone 5
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This is a thinly disguised attempt at asking how old you are. There's a thread currently running on years experience, I thought it would be interesting to learn the average age of the business owners here. Just vote on the poll if you prefer to remain anonymous, or feel free to comment.
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07-15-2004, 08:13 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Chicago
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,558
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You really want to know how old we are.......................?????????
I'm 50 probably one of the older ones here.............
It shows my mind is slipping..........................
I don't respond on the plant quizzes...................
I forget all the little tricks that we use on jobs to make them more profitable......................... It's not that we don't use them it I just forget that we use them............................................
I enjoy reading all the post here about pond building, stone work, softscape, hardscape, and business.
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07-15-2004, 08:20 PM
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Gold Oak Network Member
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Join Date: Apr 2003
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,104
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50 going on 29 
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Beer in one hand - Nacho's in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming : Woo Hoo, what a ride!
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07-15-2004, 08:29 PM
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Administrator
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin
USDA Zone 4
Posts: 7,563
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35 going on 100... Not in the wisdom dept, just the broken-down body dept.
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07-15-2004, 08:36 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Chicago
USDA Zone 5
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Your not alone in that department, it's just that yours are mostly external parts while mine are internal..............................
Now if I just could stop, drinking good booze, smoking even better cigars, and eating great food...............................
   Nope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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07-15-2004, 08:36 PM
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B&B Tree
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: LaGrangeville, N.Y.
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The broken down body part is why I posted this thread. I'm 44 now and have started to notice myself slowing down a bit. Just two years ago, I'd have put myself up against anyone 20 years younger and run circles around them. My joints are starting to creak, and that makes me wonder just how long I can stay in this business.
I was just curious how many were in my age bracket. Seems like a few anyway.....
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07-15-2004, 08:48 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Chicago
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It's just making a lifestyle change, but in business.
At some point in life you have to decide whether you want to run the shovel or run the crew. I picked running a crew many moons ago. For me it's paid off.............
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07-15-2004, 09:55 PM
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Gold Oak Network Member
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Join Date: Apr 2003
USDA Zone 5
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When I was 30 I thought I never would get old
When I turned 45 I started slowing down, joints started creaking and I realized one day I will get old.
At 50 I let the young bucks do most of the heavy and hard physical work. I also call for more breaks than I used to. 
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Beer in one hand - Nacho's in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming : Woo Hoo, what a ride!
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07-15-2004, 10:14 PM
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Gold Oak Network Member
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Highland, NY
USDA Zone 4
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I feel all of the above and I'm only 30, go figure.
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"Any husband making shape and color decisions has to show written consent from wife" no exceptions
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07-15-2004, 10:27 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Southwest ct
USDA Zone 6
Posts: 1,742
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I'm 33 and enjoy a hard days work as the rest, but never thought it was macho to injure myself. I've had my own business for 10 years and have just begun to realize that if I don't do something the guys will figure out they should (sometimes a gentle nudge is needed).
I went to a driving range with a freind this week, for the first time in about three years, and quickly realized that my flexibility isn't what it was when I was 20. How do those goes on the senior tour do it?
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As a father I was always aware that I was raising my sons to leave home, marry, establish families, and be men who could stand on their own two feet. We must fulfill our own destiny. I really wasn't concerned about what they might 'do' but I wanted them to 'be' good men.
- David Epps
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07-16-2004, 12:52 AM
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Acorn
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Alexandria, IN
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 40
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1954 Model here. The body is banged up some........ the frames twisted in places......the engines hard to start sometimes........ the headlights seem to be getting dimmer every day.... and I lost track of the mileage a long time ago.
But hey thats OK cause after you reach fifty you relize that every day above ground is a good day.
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Lifes A Hoot!
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07-16-2004, 01:33 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,246
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You guys are gonna make me do the math?!
Ah, uhm, 36, I think...
Physically, I'm still kickin' and keepin' up with the boys (more like setting the pace), but had Lyme disease last Summer and still feel like it took some wind out of my sails...
I think Paul's got the right idea...let's get this party started!!! |
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