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  • shawn_10
    shawn_10 Member Posts: 28


    I am 27 years old and look forward to learning alot more.
  • Ragu
    Ragu Member Posts: 138
    Good One!!!!!

    53 the first of March. Started in the trade in 1985 and now in my 11th year on my own. Bald now and just had to break down and buy 36" waist pants. Ooh!!! that hurt; but I couldn't breath in my 34's.

    I like Dave's idea of pictures. Gotta learn more computer expertise so I can send a pic of my ugly mug. Good post!

    P.S. To you guys who posted pictures: you all are way more handsome and trim than I ever imagined!
  • jwade55_2
    jwade55_2 Member Posts: 21
    Well if you ask my wife,

    I'm somewhere between 5-18, depends on the day. But most of the time 31, but just found out that I have to have a knee scoped due to a softball injury, makes me feel 18 again:( Although I know it will take a BIT longer to rehab this time.

    J
  • FredR
    FredR Member Posts: 62


    65 years old. In a/c, HVAC, controls since 1958,loved every minute.
    Come to this site to continue learning.
    I said to (my wife) "I hope that I always have a little boy in me" she replied "You don't have anything to worry about" LOL.
  • Brian (Tankless)
    Brian (Tankless) Member Posts: 340
    Happy belated B-Day

    Plumdog.

    I don't know what 57 is supposed to feel like, but I don't feel like it :O)
    Don't have time to get old, too much to do.

    My Mom is 78, and got a new "boyfreind" at 75. He's a "younger man" at 72 :O)

    Gotta go swim in the Crick with the almost nine yr old.

    Later, fella's.

    Brian.

    Edit: We didn't go crick-swimming on this day, we split some "Rita logs" built a fire and incinerated some yardbird thighs.

    This sweetheart is what keeps me young.
  • Bob Sweet
    Bob Sweet Member Posts: 540
    Wish I knew now, what I thought

    I knew 20 years ago. Coming up on 43, 20 of that busting knuckles.And am pleased to say, I'm still learning, really can't ask for much more than that. If I could find replacement parts for my elbows and knee's, I'd be as good as new.
    Yah I know, "the wiring, the wiring it's a mess".... I took care of it. This was a replacement.

  • Matt J._2
    Matt J._2 Member Posts: 10
    45

    24 years in the plumbing field, 21 years at the same company. Time flys when your having fun, oh it not all fun but for the most part it is. My dad always told me to try and learn something new everyday and for the most part i always have, if not at work I come here and absorb the vase knowledge here! Thanks to everyone for there input here. If someone was to tell me years ago that I would be having as much fun as I'm having everyday at work I would have said that they had a screw loose.


    Its great to be able to put the faces to the names!
    Not a bad looking group!


    Matt J. w/Biggerstaff's

  • Unknown
    Unknown


    31 a few days ago, been working with the wet heat for 13 years now. learning exponentially as the years go on.
  • Unknown
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    31 just a few days ago, about 13 years in the trade and learning exponentially as the years go on!
  • Jeff Lawrence_25
    Jeff Lawrence_25 Member Posts: 746
    Fabio?

    How about Waynio?

    And how about this picture?
  • steve gates
    steve gates Member Posts: 329
    not old enough

    A friend and I are bidding a small commercial project together, he brings over the plans and asks how many days do you think? I figure 15 tops. he says 25. I ask why the diff. says we ain't as fast as we used to be. He's 45, I'll be 55 in june.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Killed 5 wallies....

    with one picture there. I recognize two from past meeting experiences, one from paying attention, and the other two, I'm guessing, but I think #1 is number 3's podnah, so through elimination, I'd guess Rick to be # 2. Was I close?

    ME
  • Glenn Harrison_2
    Glenn Harrison_2 Member Posts: 845
    I'm 34 3/4 right now.

    Knees and back are in their 50's. Brain has been in it's 30's since I was 12 years old.

    Been doing HVAC since January '91 Which is of course why knees and back are in 50's :(

    Here's a pic of me from two years ago. I still look the same, except for hairline is a little farther back. (the young ladies are my oldest daughters).
  • Jim Walsh
    Jim Walsh Member Posts: 8


    42 years old. 23 years in the trade.
  • Al Letellier_9
    Al Letellier_9 Member Posts: 929
    age

    45+ years in the trade, 57 last candle burning, and feeling 85. Going under the knife soon to fix bad wrist and numb fingers, but it's been worth the ride !!!

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Just turned 37

    a few weeks ago . Come April , I'll be in the trade 20 years . Wow does time fly .
  • Maine Doug_30
    Maine Doug_30 Member Posts: 18
    A common thought

    thru the messages is the physical wear and tear this business is taking out of all of you. I would imagine most of us don't really appreciate just how tough this work can be on you guys.
    It would be interesting to be able to add up all the years of experience in this thread.
    Ah, experience.... The young bull and the old bull were on the hill overlooking a meadow full of cows. The young bull said, "Let's run down there and grab one of them cows". The old bull responded, "Let's walk and grab them all".

    I am 60 and still have on my list of to-do's to learn how to weld and to drive a big truck, well at least bigger than the dumper I drove while in school.

    Thanks for all your knowledge and help.

    Maine Doug
  • Leo
    Leo Member Posts: 770
    Same as ME

    I was born 13 days after ME. Be 53 in May and I have been in the field 10 years after a career change.

    Leo
  • Dave Stroman
    Dave Stroman Member Posts: 766


    Seems like a few of us are right around the same age. I will be 53 in Dec. I started plumbing fresh out of high school. That makes 33 years in the trade. 25 of that has been on my own in my own business, doing all the work by myself. Only for the last 7 or 8 years have I had steady employees. I would not dream of doing anything else except the the days when I am digging around in a bunch of fiberglass or spending all day in a crawl space.

    Dave in Denver

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    This was a few years back in Germany


    I'll be 49 this summer. Still not as old as Hunt, I mean just look at his picture :)

    I feel alot older in the Morning when I get up, but the kids make me feel twenty.

    Scott

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  • Supply House Rick
    Supply House Rick Member Posts: 1,399
    Mark you are correct

    Darin, me, Mark, Devan Singh and the legendary Mad Dog. What a time we had! When my 9 year old daughter saw the picture she asked...Tiger Woods went with you? No honey I said, Tiger Singh went with us...

    Rick
  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Ha!

    Thanks for the picture Jeff. WAs that Baltimore? WW

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  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    Scott,

    looking at that table are you two standing on the ceiling?

    That is quite a trick even for you youngsters.

    Jack at 59.
  • Jeff Lawrence_25
    Jeff Lawrence_25 Member Posts: 746
    Well,

    It was in the computer folder for The Last Waltz.

  • Terry H.
    Terry H. Member Posts: 73


    39 and holding at least till november.
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Just turned 58 last month...

    And started in this biz in 1971. Jimmy Buffet says it better than I ever could.

    "I'm growing older but not up!"
  • Eugene Silberstein 3
    Eugene Silberstein 3 Member Posts: 1,380
    Thanks Brad...

    I intend to!
  • George_10
    George_10 Member Posts: 580
    Just think of a picture of Santa

    I will be 69 in June of this year. I have lived several life times during these years. I believe I must be one of the oldest Wallies. But I sure enjoy your company.

    As long as you can get up an enjoy what you are doing each day, you have got it made.

    I tried to retire several times, but I can not do it. I enjoy the business world better than sitting around talking about the good old days.

    I hope you all have as much fun out of your life as I have had with my time here on this wonderful blue marble.
  • Ranger
    Ranger Member Posts: 210
    Right on,Bill!

    41,Started aboard U.S.C.G.Barque Eagle,"A" Gang w/MK1 Harry Dozier & MK2 Les Kaplan (2 Vapor Power down fired water tube steam boilers!)September 1982.I thought Hero's engine was cool back then :-)
  • Jim_65
    Jim_65 Member Posts: 184
    I'm

    only 30 but I really love what I do and who I have the opportunity to learn from. IT's a great pleasure to work with ME, Tom and the guys everyday.

    Here's two pics of my lovely wife Courtney and I in beautiful Estes Park, CO. We are expecting our first in two months...Can't wait!

    The other one is how I feel most mornings...
  • Ike Gatlin
    Ike Gatlin Member Posts: 65
    Figure this one out...

    I have been in the business in one shape or another beginning in 1986. I can still touch a copper pipe and tell you the temperature within 1 degree.

    I am the one with the big ears!

    Ike Gatlin
  • JimGPE_21
    JimGPE_21 Member Posts: 9


    Crossed the 50 yard line last week. I still think I'm a kid.

    I know it is a cliche, but 50 used to be a LOT older when I was 25....

  • eric_2
    eric_2 Member Posts: 148


    37 and counting. 15 years in the biz. no picture, be grateful...........;)
  • eric_2
    eric_2 Member Posts: 148


    37 and counting. 15 years in the biz. no picture, be grateful...........;)
  • Eric_25
    Eric_25 Member Posts: 79
    44

    44 this weekend, started in the trade @16 years, thats 28 years I must be old, in business for myself 20 years this year.
    picture of me and my three sons working hard at NHIS.
    I am the old one
    Eric G.

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  • Cosmo_3
    Cosmo_3 Member Posts: 845


    I'll tell you what happened...we all got gray hair and our knees hurt, I remember being the youngest guy on the job running a trade. long time ago


    Cosmo Valavanis

    Dependable P.H.C. Inc.
  • Cosmo_3
    Cosmo_3 Member Posts: 845
    forgot to add my pic

    Cosmo Valavanis

    Dependable P.H.C. Inc.
  • Cosmo_3
    Cosmo_3 Member Posts: 845
    forgot to add my pic

    The baby in my arms is my Niece 18 months ago... time flies eh?



    Cosmo Valavanis

    Dependable P.H.C. Inc.
  • Gregory Pex
    Gregory Pex Member Posts: 9
    She is the best Jim!

    > only 30 but I really love what I do and who I

    > have the opportunity to learn from. IT's a great

    > pleasure to work with ME, Tom and the guys

    > everyday.

    >

    > Here's two pics of my lovely wife

    > Courtney and I in beautiful Estes Park, CO. We

    > are expecting our first in two months...Can't

    > wait!

    >

    > The other one is how I feel most

    > mornings...



  • Gregory Pex
    Gregory Pex Member Posts: 9
    Jim you are a lucky guy..

    You have your youth, a great Wife, and a little one on the way…You both will be great parents!
    One of these day’s you can be a broken down ‘ol boiler salesman..like me…
    Started w/ Shad Garnett in ’84...What a Great Man!
    I’m really not broken down yet, a young 45 is more like it! -Greg
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