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Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
 
Where will you be in regards to your career???

What turns do you think the industry will have taken???
 
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
 
Frank, your pics aren't showing up. [Rolling On The Floor]
 
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
 
well hopefully in 20 years i'll be retired.

things will be so different in 20 years it will blow your mind!
 
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
 
In twenty years, my face lift show be just about completely healed. And I'll be one of them persons who has two residents. One south and one north. And I wil still be doing vehicle signage.
Wow, by that time I'll be a real legend!
 
Posted by Harris Kohen (Member # 2139) on :
 
I hope to be filthy rich by then [Smile]
 
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
 
It seems like the last 20 years has fast forwarded. In twenty years I will be 72. I suspect that I won't bee too worried about trends in the sign industry although I hope to be still at it in some form... but not nearly as frantic as I am now.

I suspect my shop won't be equipped much different than it is now except for a MUCH faster computer which will undoubtably do things we can't even imagine now.

It will be an interesting ride!

-grampa dan
 
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
 
Well, at 80, I'll be working a little less than we do now. Hell, we only average 10-15 hours a week now so cutting back won't be too hard [Smile]

I imagine I'll be spending more time on here reading about the good old days when everyting was done in vinyl.
 
Posted by Bill Preston (Member # 1314) on :
 
Fast forward 20 years---age almost 90----probably dead---and past caring.

bill preston
 
Posted by Teresa Bostic (Member # 6214) on :
 
If I'm alive hope I'm still consulting or designing. I don't plan to live that long, though.

I think that by then the industry will have come up with digital display 4'X8' signs that storeowners just plug a microchip into to display their business cards. They will probabaly be self-installing, too.
 
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
 
20 years from now?

49 years old and 4 months away from my planned retirement then I'll just dabble and dink around with stuff.. basically like I already do. [Smile]
 
Posted by Bruce Williams (Member # 691) on :
 
The industry will be all-digital in 20 years. Outdoor advertising that is not electrical will be rare, because most people will not get outside long enough to see it. This will be the result of 3 trends: the next crisis in motor fuel, overpopulation and advances in digital imagery.

If alternatives to petroleum fuel are developed, the traffic will be gridlocked constantly. Nobody will follow a sign, if it entails a left turn. Most people don't really need to go anywhere anyway. Whatever they do for "work" can already be done from home, and the inconvenience and pressure of driving around will eventually force this.

Everybody will have "virtual" access to anything they want. They'll have goggles, gloves and other sensory inputs for media like the "feelies" described by Huxley in _Brave New World_. The clientele will be in a state called Solipcism. Reality and fantasy will not matter. For graphics designers, it will be Hog's Heaven.
 
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
 
...In 20 years I will (still ) enjoy watching the paint come off of the end of my brush. But by then, I don't know if it will end up where I aim it though!
 
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
 
I have no clue what I'll be doing in 20 years much like I could not predict where I am now 20 years ago. It's not the destination that counts but the journey along the way.
 
Posted by Ed Gregorowicz (Member # 1842) on :
 
In 20 years I'd like to be living in a lodge on a lake somewhere in rural Montana, Idaho, New England or anywhere in the mountains with an incredibly rich supermodel, enjoying life......Motorcycling, snowmobiling, hunting.....


Matter of fact, I'd like to be doing that right now.
Never mind.
 
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
 
Still lettering with a brush, with lots of panels and gold work out there for the young'uns to Marvel at!!! :rofl:but will Big Top still be on the road? Is there a road to be on???

John
 
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
It's a pretty interesting question . . . hard to imagine where the focus of the industry will be then . . . we still grappling over it now . . . but I still hang with the idea that the more technicle stuff gets, the more some people will pay extra to have it 'done by hand'.

I will only be 63 and even if I were to be 93, I have no plans to retire from whatever I may be doing.
 
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
 
I'll be 63 too!
And hopefully still slingin' paint.
And I also hope my wrists, hips, and knees hold out.
Love....Jill
 
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
 
There is already a 'vicious circle' in place: money is tight for the sign customer, so they choose the lowest cost option, which brings the overall quality of signs/graphics in an area lower, and when that standard is accepted, then somebody will opt to lower the bar a little more...


And within 10 years spray painted signs done by 'taggers' will be acceptable business image. You think I'm nuts, and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm already seeing it. If it remains isolated, then well, but in this society, I don't know. I went to a mini truck site, and the poor grammar was shocking (not foul language).

As for me, I might still be doing obscure work that others don't.
 
Posted by thom miller (Member # 1845) on :
 
Twenty years from now everyone will have figured out that computers made our lives a total mess not to mention made most folks brain dead 'cause they lost all reason to think for themselves.
Mechanics will diagnose cars by how the engine sounds, engineers will use slide rules, and signs will be hand lettered with lead based paints on one type of substrate, MDO.
 
Posted by jake snow (Member # 5889) on :
 
Jimmy D. said
quote:
As for me, I might still be doing obscure work that others don't
That about sums it up for me too.
 
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by James Donahue:
I went to a mini truck site, and the poor grammar was shocking (not foul language).

Yeah, it is around here at times too. [Rolling On The Floor] Sorry, couldn't resist.

Don't know where I'll be in 20 years. I work on 5 year plans. [Smile]
 
Posted by DianeBalch (Member # 1301) on :
 
I think the bullboard will be filled with old geezers (oops, I mean seniors)

.... there will be lots of youngsters making wonderful signs.

The sign laws will be outrageous.

Movie type OLED signs will be banned from vehicles.

Our future grandkids will be in college.

I'll be spending my days on the boat fishing and snoozing.

ernie
 
Posted by Ryan E Young (Member # 2325) on :
 
I for one hope I become Joey Madden
 
Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :
 
20 years from now!??!?! Heck, I'm still working on my 3 year plan [Smile]
One thing for sure, I'll be that the old school gang will be bashing the new technology.

Havin' fun,

Checkers
 
Posted by Carl Wood (Member # 1223) on :
 
Hopefully retired to Gulf Coast - Seaside/Destin Area - -enjoying grandkids
 
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
 
In 20 years I will be 98 if still alive, but if not I will be looking down(I hope)and watching all of you make the world a little bit better with your work.
 
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
 
My day 20 years from now:

ahhhhh, I wake up without an alarm clock, and listen to the birds chirping outside. I snuggle up to my hubby of then almost 40 years. I can't believe how fast the time has flown and I take a minute to give thanks for the many blessings in my life. I smell the coffee brewing (it will definately be brewing itself in 20 years, won't it?) and put my pink fuzzy housecoat on. I take a cup of coffee out onto the deck, and overlook the lake and the beautiful view.
Today is going to be another great day.

We have breakfast on the deck, do we read the newspaper or is everything on line? I do a few chores and then decide what I'm going to do for the day. Do I finish that great book I'm reading, do I work on the picture I'm painting in the art room? Maybe I'll head out to the shop and work on stripping that dresser I bought at that auction sale. I definately need to tidy up out there!
I stop to pick a few weeds out of my garden as I walk around the yard with my coffee. Don is getting ready to head out in the boat. Maybe I'll pack a lunch and we'll spend the day fishing.
We'll have our friends over for supper tonight, we always enjoy getting together with friends. Later, I'll phone the grandkids to see how their day went, and invite them to spend their summer with us.
I'm really glad I worked hard in my younger days, and that we put some money away 20 years ago!! Thank god for oil stocks! It is really so nice to be retired at 55!

[Smile]
 


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