Just wondering about average age and careers of you riders

[Grey Thumper]

Whoah, what's with all the resurrected threads?

Anyway, I'm 40 and a creative director at (pretentious phrase) an interactive design firm where (non-pretentious phrase) we make websites and stuff. Still still quite a newb at the whole motorcycling thing, having started riding in 2007).



I wonder whatever happened to Ahmad1 (OP). Did he/she ever become a motorcycle-owning (and wheelie-ing) doctor?

[totalmotorcycle]

I'm fifty-bloody-nine (someone will pay for this!) I'm a social housing manager working in local government. I also work occasionally as a shiatsu practioner (all jokes on a postcard please, addressed to the waste-paper bin).

I've previously been: an adminstrator in a nursing home for schizophrenic clients; a community worker; a youth worker; a night shelter worker; a homelessness worker; a learning difficulty support worker; a home tutor; a cook; a kitchen assistant; a self-employed painter and decorator; a carpenter; a labourer; a building site bonus clerk; a toy-maker; a street market researcher; a call-centre worker; a receptionist; a nutritionist; a homoeopathic pharmacist; a marketing manager; a condom and pessary production worker; a mushroom farm worker; a horse products production worker; an ethical investment administrator; a housing officer; a housing advice officer; a typing teacher; a home tutor; a policy officer; an 'alternative' renting agency manager; a plastic-bottles warehouseman (most fun job I ever had); various other kinds of warehouseman; a fork-lift truck driver; a factory production worker (manufacturing grooves in typewriter keys to high tolerances - mine!); a shop assistant; a filing clerk; a collating clerk!; a hospital porter; a hospital store worker; a transport co-ordinator; an editor; a writer; a bookshop owner; a student counsellor; a student (various times) and a bum.

Oh and once in desperation, I tried being a travelling salesman. I lasted five days.

They could use my career trajectory to design an off-roading m/c training circuit somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

I don't kinda settle easily.

Wowzers, that is a lot of occupations! And I thought I was a jack-of-all trades!

BTW - You might be 59, but you don't look it.... and after all you are only as old as you feel you are, thus Motorcycling is a great fountain of youth solution.

Mike

[Gummiente]

I last posted in this thread when I was 44, now I'm about to hit 49. I started off in the military at the tender age of 18, retired at age 34 and bounced around the job market for a couple years as a security guard, life insurance & mutual funds salesman, frozen foods salesman, before settling on the Millwright trade. Was also a Canada Safety Council qualified Motorcycle Safety Course Instructor (part-time), for about five years. That was one of the most fun and rewarding jobs I've ever had, but there just wasn't enough demand to turn it into a full time career. Two years ago I got tired of being laid off and, after taking the summer off, turned my back on Millwrighting and took a training course to become a Professional Transport Operator (a fancy way of saying "trucker"). Got hired on by a trucking company in Mississauga last January and have been roaming the highways of Ontario, Quebec and most of the eastern US ever since in my big jeezus truck...

[sunshine229]

Hahahaha so many laughs on this page!

High_Side said it best in another post:

Holy bringing a thread back from the grave Batman!

I never did reply to this post ever so I guess it's my turn...

I'm a lovely 3-0 or 7 1/2 years old (try to figure that one out) and I'm a GIS professional, which I've been doing since graduating university in 2002.

In my younger years my coolest job was when I worked as a DJ at a local radio station. Wicked!

[lil_squirt]

Far out talk about a huge variety!!
Think you've got just about anyone & everyone riding these days

Im 19 & a personal trainer

[joolz]

Hahahaha so many laughs on this page!

High_Side said it best in another post:

Holy bringing a thread back from the grave Batman!

I never did reply to this post ever so I guess it's my turn...

I'm a lovely 3-0 or 7 1/2 years old (try to figure that one out) and I'm a GIS professional, which I've been doing since graduating university in 2002.

In my younger years my coolest job was when I worked as a DJ at a local radio station. Wicked!

Leap year baby?
I'm 42, drive a delivery van and can't get the Rocket to wheelie

[sv-wolf]

I last posted in this thread when I was 44, now I'm about to hit 49. I started off in the military at the tender age of 18, retired at age 34 and bounced around the job market for a couple years as a security guard, life insurance & mutual funds salesman, frozen foods salesman, before settling on the Millwright trade. Was also a Canada Safety Council qualified Motorcycle Safety Course Instructor (part-time), for about five years. That was one of the most fun and rewarding jobs I've ever had, but there just wasn't enough demand to turn it into a full time career. Two years ago I got tired of being laid off and, after taking the summer off, turned my back on Millwrighting and took a training course to become a Professional Transport Operator (a fancy way of saying "trucker"). Got hired on by a trucking company in Mississauga last January and have been roaming the highways of Ontario, Quebec and most of the eastern US ever since in my big jeezus truck...

Wow Gummi, and I seriously had you down as a backwoods man (with sidecar), not a roamer. Shows how wrong you can be.

[Gummiente]

Wow Gummi, and I seriously had you down as a backwoods man (with sidecar), not a roamer. Shows how wrong you can be.

Yep. "Never judge a book by its cover" and all that. People are always shocked when they find out what I've done and where I've been during my life.

[fireguzzi]

I'm 42, drive a delivery van and can't get the Rocket to wheelie

You need to see this video for some pointers on Wheeling the rocket.

[sapaul]

Nothing suprises me about Gummi

This is a guy who gets on his Ural and rides to the bottle store to get ice for his beers. This is in the middle of a snow storm. Tough buggers the Canadians. No the wonder the Chinese have never invaded.