[Closed] How old are you and what do you do? RESULTS

you must be really sick

now wash your hands.

credit to you for having the patience to trawl through all those replies.
GWS

I'd like a breakdown of profession cross-referenced to industry, skill level and importance please.

Samuri supplemental request - can you do a pie chart?

Sounds like you need a pivot table to me

What are the top 10 professions?

I guessed the average age was about 38 last week (I didn't post this, mrsDezB asked me). Might've saved you a bit of work 🙂

What are the top 10 professions?

A few like me in maintenance. My proper title is maint tech, just means fitter 🙄

Quite a few with titles that may not actually mean what you read into them

Do you think we're all growing old together? I mean I know we are but with the exception of the odd young whippersnapper and old gimmer, do you think there's this bubble of middle aged people gradually drifting through time linked only by their STW login's? The average age will gradually get older and older (and presumably more refined as more of us die off), until the average age of those that can still type and remember who they are is 75?

Obviously I'll still be able to ride 200 miles in a day and there will be questions about what 9 inch forks for 16 foot high dropoffs. Jedi will still be pottering about amongst the treetops, sfb will be posting pictures of pensioners bums and everything will still be Thatchers fault, I don't see why any of that should change.

In an ideal world samuri 🙂

37.3 years old

That makes me very average indeed - I knew it all along 🙂

get help chap quickly before its too late

Ah Kimbers, are you a man or a woman?

Getting Old Together

Yes I certainly think so. There seems to be a 'group' of people across the uk (i travel round a lot all over so meet loads of new people) who were 'in' to MTBing at the turn of the 80's & into the 90's. Those people are now aged 30 to 45 ish, and remember the heady days of the NEMBAs, JMC, when MBUK was good etc. There is a 'different' clan of enthusiasts now who have found the DH thrill personified by Peaty, and think that anything less than a foot of travel is well jey...

But yes, this 'group' are aging together and have IMHO found their home in STW.

Christ that's a bit deep for a tuesday lunchtime...

I'm off sick so thought I would amuse myself by working out the average age...

That's well and good but what was the average job?

I'm guessing "ITeachousengineeretiredoctoresearchippy"

Samuri supplemental request - can you do a pie chart?

if you're off sick can you just make me some pies ?

sfb will be posting pictures of pensioners bums

I try not to discriminate on age grounds :o)

Ah Kimbers, are you a man or a woman?

i cant decide

A wide spectrum of jobs, I didn't write them down, but more or less:

IT
the medical profession
science-based
cops
teachers
self-employed/small business owners
armed forces

Distressingly middle-aged, middle-class and "normal" isn't it? 😉

kimbers - Member

Ah Kimbers, are you a man or a woman?

i cant decide

ROFL !

i'm off sick too, but i've had to do a 1500 word essay on "Health and Safety and Pregnant Women"

i think yours was easier

and im above average age 🙁

and i'm one of those from the 80's/90's who is still lingering

Where it was not obvious or stated that the poster was female, I guessed male from the name or job.

by job?

😯

I started in 1984. I had a rubbish bike and went in the bike shop and said I wanted to ride along the canal towpath (whoa! e x t r e m e) and have good brakes. They showed me a Saracen Conquest. I fell in love and haven't been solvent since...

Wish you better soon RocketDog

profession is going to be skewed heavily by the fact that we while away worktime on the forum - I mean does anyone actually bother with this place out of office hours? Thats riding time that is 🙂

mrmichaelwright - Member

Where it was not obvious or stated that the poster was female, I guessed male from the name or job.

by job?

"Full time Dad" etc was easy, for the others I had to rely on good old-fashioned stereotyping I'm afraid eg
flooring instalation technician and builder of bright lights

- probably male

Not an exact science, I realise

 

If you are still ill tomorrow can you work out what percentage would be on the B Ark?

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🙂

there'll always be the same crowd on here, discussion has grown older as the core members have.

talk of washable nappies, twin buggies, investments and washing machine repairs were not the staples of gofar or the old stw.

the only constant has been the music and drugs threads, they've just changed form 'i do' to 'i used to'

i thought this thread was going to state a financial amount gained through identity theft.

i thought this thread was going to state a financial amount gained through identity theft.

I wish someone would steal mine and relieve me of my debts...

"It was him wot done it"

kimbers - Member
you must be really sick

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO # REPORT-POST

I would say it must be terminal.

DaRC_L - Member
Samuri supplemental request - can you do a pie chart?

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there's a fair few out here in our 20's!

whats the standard deviation? is it fairly tight in the upper 30's or is there more of a range? d10 and d90 to please.............

I said i was an RBS banker but technically i earned so much i was able to retire at forty, and spend too much time on here, and various other forums.

Oh and go riding 😉

So the average age has gone up by a few years since the official survey a few years ago, incredible.

Did you find many UNIX administrators?

If so, can you get them to answer my UNIX question.

i'll be riding bikes forever 🙂

"[i]i'll be riding bikes forever[/i]"

Either you are immortal or they have bikes in heaven ?.

🙂

L.

what will be interesting would be to get everyones salary, and see what the average income is !

ok

based on a sample comprising the first 250 valid replies:

Averag 37.46774194
Std Dev 8.555544154
min 17
max 64

can you tell how bored i am

i can supply the excel sheet if anyone wants to do the remaining 7 pages or so

(i don't know how to do FREQ formula so can't supply pie charts)

there'll always be the same crowd on here, discussion has grown older as the core members have

It seems that way. I've always been 5 years or so younger than the average. Ten years ago, I was 22 and had just graduated and got married and always felt a lot younger than most other people, but the 5 year ago gap feels less as the years go on.

At 32, married for a decade, two kids aged 6 and 4, etc. I feel much more like the average.

[i]can you tell how bored i am[/i]

Yeap, but keep going 🙂

its helping with my boredom, ta.

L.

i am immortal = fact

knock yourselves out data monkeys

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I'm still holding up the top end of that list. No wonder none of my "old friends" want to ride with me.

Sorry Charlie - but I trumped you - I was 64 last month 🙂