Yeah. What happened was that once CAD became widely used, it was the older crowd that got out of the field whether due to forced retirement (shitcanned 'cause they didn't like the new technology/refused to adapt) or willingly dropped out because they realized that it was too late in life to start to learn "how to do everything" again. Of course, there are exceptions to this, but overall I think that's pretty much a good interpretation.
Big loss for the worldwide piping design community.
Let's see some of the people from IME join this list, assuming they're not too feeble to press keys on a keyboard.
Paul
> Pul,
>
> We joke around here that the Christmas party venue has to change because
so
> many old lags cant get their wheelchairs and Zimmer frames through the
doors or
> up ramps of the current venue. Engineering in Australia, when it comes to
> piping, is positively geriatric. OK we have the CAD wizards (let's not
open
> that debate again) but the diehards are all over 50. I am not old but
have
> been young for a very long time. At a meeting last night of the
Institution of
> Mechanical Engineers (the Australian branch of the Pommie one) the
chairman
> advised that the average age of the branch members here was 70! These guys
have
> been young for a very long time.
Received on Thu Oct 17 22:50:00 2002
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