Our Age.Some results.

Looks like the oldest is 87. the youngest is 16. There 3 teenagers.4(ithink) in their 80s.Lots in their 50s and 70s.Will try to get an average soon. Unless someone beats me to it! LOL WOW what a llloooonnnnggg thread that turned to be. Must be some kind of a record!Thanks for all the responces. Steve

You can add me in too if you want. I'm 64.

Me too. 67

Just added mine to the original thread.

Was going to throw them into Excel and auto-average... but whew, there are A LOT of replies.

Still 60, but feeling a lot older. Was thinking about replying to the post last night, but I got all tired out reading it!

Yeah, I'm 27.

60

If you want to,go for it! Save me a lot of paper and pencil work. My brain will be on overload....

I consider my age as one of those personal facts that no one really should be asking about. If I were at a party I would not even consider polling the room about age. Don't see why the pseudo-anonymity of of the internet should make a difference in that regard. This is a personal opinion and not an attack on you or any other participant so, please...

Anyway, I am not sure your sample is large enough to draw any accurate conclusions, but I predict you will end up with a bell shaped curve (of course, duh!). Curious what the mean and mode are in comparison to the US population as a whole? Statistics was one of my favorite subjects in college!

The one I REALLY hate is "how many acres do you work". Well, I must be working at least a million acres, but I hire it all done. Do I count now? I'd much sooner talk about my age. That's pretty obvious to any observer. I think the average here will be a reflection of the average farmer. We're mostly senior citizens!

I woke up this morning wondering about this. Haha. Sweetfeet I was actually thinking the same thing. Put it into excel as a pie graph showing percentage or something. I'll let someone else handle it though!

Glad you started that thread, i was always curious about who got on here.

I'm not there yet. But fast approching!

hi folks, 72 and still buying old tractors. MJ

I believe the goal was to see the ave. age of people to tinker with tractors.
In ( our ) world we seeing a turn down on older machines not many people are
looking for or repairing, the value of many are falling off... We respect your
views & each others as well. To each his own.

Age is 77 and still Collecting the Deeres.

It tired me out too!!! went to bed last night and it is still stringing along. I may as well add to the list. 68, working on 69. Hope I get over the problems that year 68 brought me.
Loren, the Acg.

Take a look at the pie chart below.





The data was taken from the original post by Steve yesterday.

The youngest age is 16.

The oldest age is 86.

The average is 58.

The median age is 60.

How about that? I'm no longer average,I'm "median". lol

Thank you James!!!I was going to TRY to work it out this evening with paper and pencil. Saved me a BUNCH of work. Steve

James H.---I'm always impressed at your ability to

"perform" on your computer. Have you had considerable
training, or is it what you have "just picked up" in
self-training?

I am quite limited, so I appreciate someone else's
expertise.

AARP already considers you a senior citizen.

I'm glad you volunteered. It's not polite to ask a woman her age.

77 now, hopefully will get to 78 and beyond.

70, hope to keep waking up on the green side of the sod.

Thanks for the compliment.

Over 30 years ago, I was given a small Apple desktop computer and instruction manual.

Read the manual, practiced, and learned how to use it.

Bought a textbook on DOS (disk operating system) and learned the commands and started writing batch files to "automate" the computer.

Bought a textbook on BASIC programming language and started writing small programs to use on the computer.

Learned COBOL and the early versions of Lotus 123 and dBase III.

Started writing macros and and creating database management systems with both.

Learned EXCEL and ACCESS and created desktop applications with both.

No "formal" training, so enrolled in the local community college and took all of the computer courses they offered.

Somehow managed to maintain a 4.0 grade average for all the courses.

One of my instructors encouraged me to become an instructor, so I put in my application and was hired as an adjunct computer instructor.

At one time was teaching at four different colleges within the Dallas County Community College District.

Taught computer courses and did spreadsheet and database consulting for about nine years.

Got an opportunity to become the program director for computer courses at Eastfield College in 2001.

Always enjoyed working with computers and helping students learn how to use them.

Probably more information than you wanted to know, but like any other skill it comes with some training and a lot of "hands on" practice.

Thanks again for the compliment.

That one hits a nerve with me also. Kinda like asking for your annual income or total assets number. It always surprises me that people do not see a problem with asking such personal questions of a person they just met! BUT...when I look back over the years, before I owned or worked ANY property, I think I was guilty of the same question. I wasn't getting personal, I was actually trying to get a feel for what, say, 40 acres looked like. Now I just consider the source and reply with answers like "a lot".

I guess I would have just answered the OP...but I cannot recall how many years I have been 39!

James, that's quite impressive, the path you took parallels a bit from when I was in high school, chronologically, when I started, there was an actual computer room for computer science, I can't even tell you what that hardware was. By graduation the commodore 64 desktop replaced the room and its outdated equipment. We started with DOS and Basic. We learned basic programming as well, and I followed up in college later but never did as much as you have on that end of it, but certainly recognized the value of it, wishing I did !

I did a stint as an adjunct at NYU, where I graduated from. It was enjoyable to be on the other side, having been a student in the same program. One early morning as I was walking to work to an NYU building project I was working on during the day. It was dark and about 6am or so. One of my students, from the class I taught the night before, who was also an NYU employee, approached me and complimented me on the class I taught the evening before. He said that was a great class. This was all the pay I needed ! That was more rewarding than anything I can think of. Its really nice when someone tells you that you did a good job, you don't hear it very often in this life today. Last time I heard it was after raking hay for the farmer and friend I helped for years long after I left that career. He said you certainly know how to rake hay, (he being a 50+ year dairyman), you have that job anytime you want !

I did some training of some of the older employees at a state agency, where one of the architects had created a data base program in Access, to log in, track and record contractor shop drawing/product data submissions for review and approval. It was critical that the approvals were expedited to meet the deadlines. I helped him with some of the leg work, per his instructions, building some of the tables, data entry and the initial start up of it, so I could in fact instruct the state employees not on board with this yet. Many were not that computer savvy yet. The purpose was multi-facet, to expedite and streamline the process of these submissions start to finish, as it was a $100M fast track project, as well as document the submissions electronically. There was about a tractor trailer load of paper work on the horizon headed our way with an additional $150M project after the first one. What this architect did, who likely had a similar background as yours, was ingenious! It worked perfectly for years. I was not a state employee, so I had that barrier to overcome, as I was placed in their office from the private sector company who was awarded a state contract. When all was said and done, I had the most hesitant of the older employees on board with it, it was not so technical as it was the manner in which it was presented. One of the few that did not, and it was not for any bad reason, still used the rubber stamps and did all the manual paperwork. He was in site design and said I'm not always busy so it gives me work to do, we laughed, I said no that is no problem at all, I can log these in, just know how to do it if needed, which he did. Some found it really interesting and satisfying to learn after all the years of the previous ways. When my tenure was done there, the reward was knowing that this smart aleck, hot shot, still almost a kid, got through to all of them and overcame every barrier in the way, helping expedite this major project to the benefit of the taxpayers, and the state facilities involved, and it never seemed like work the entire time. Its one of the more memorable periods of that career, some I'd like to forget LOL !

That was a really long thread, wonder what the longest thread on here was?

DeltaRed, you will have to get James to redo his pie chart. More are adding to the list in the first post. Its the longest I think I have ever seen. Thanks for getting everyone interested. David

I"ll be 80 next Friday. Still haying and inventing farm stuff.

I started with punch cards, was that a pain, never got that involved with software but did some hardware design on the binary level.

I left Nam in 1970 when I was an old man at 20, Hoss

OK I added mine. Born 1-9-45 (1945)
Makes me 70 plus 8 months. John in AZ

76 and counting!

James Howell is "outstanding in his field", and he has photos to prove it! LOL

Well it looks like you did it . With the post here and the one below you may have 300+ reply's. One easy Question that everyone has an answer to. Congrats.