60 year old here, I grow up in Fresno California and never did very well in school, I have dyslexia and it wasn't really very will understood back then, so my education is very lacking. I got married at 19, it lasted almost 6 years, but not long after our daughter was born she left us for her best friends husband. About 4 years later I married my second wife, we are still together. Our daughter (my second) is due to have her 3rd child (her second lived a little over a day after she was born) which will be my 4th grandchild. I have always worked for a living; I was a welder, but became a machinist and had my own shop for 13 years before I sold it to move to PA. I worked back east as a welder/fabricator in shops and doing mobile repairs etc. Came back to CA about 11 years ago and am now thinking about retiring before I start to feel as old as I look. Now I do mostly prototype work, write CNC programs (SINUMERIK 840D) for a large scale milling machine, and try to be a pain in my bosses asses. I do a little artwork now and then, I was even in a gallery for a couple of years. I like to spend time with people, my family most of all. I have had issues with the same things so many people seem to, depression hit me hard a few years ago, I almost didn't pull out of it, but things changed and I got a bit better, it never really goes away though. All and all I am doing okay, I am very healthy and most likely will live another 20 to 30 years (one never know though, this may be the last thing I ever write), though I don't like the idea of ever being 90, it is a possibility, and I would like to see how my grand-kids turn out.