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How long have you been in the Sign Business?
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econolinesigns
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29+ years in the business
Dave Drane
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60 years. I was born into it as was my father from his father. I have enough stuff here to start my own sign museum... Unfortunately I have nobody to take over from me.
SignosaurusRex
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32 years ago I started my own sign co. at age 18. Started my apprenticeship at age 12. Prior to that I started learning from my grandfather how to handle a brush and mix paint.
SignosaurusRex
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Ya know Steve, I kind of envy that. Maybe because I did not get to do as much of that as I would have liked to early on.
Just Me
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started lettering my families race cars with a brush in 1988, did a few friends race cars over the years. Bought a used plotter in 1995 (hot tip) cant remember the name of it, and some old cad system i am sure lol
Went full time in 1996, sold my business in 1999 in Wisconsin and moved to Georgia and re-opened under my current name. Have been full time since '96 except my 3 year stint as a police officer(kept the business going part time) I dont think i could ever work for anyone again....
Went full time in 1996, sold my business in 1999 in Wisconsin and moved to Georgia and re-opened under my current name. Have been full time since '96 except my 3 year stint as a police officer(kept the business going part time) I dont think i could ever work for anyone again....
OldPaint
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well, i was introduced to sign painting in 1956-58, so i was 11-13. local guy was a hell of an artist, started paintin signs, i got involved because he used our dance hall(was below the grocery store...to make pounce patterns. i got to help him paint a couple billboards, he cut in and let me fill........then "wizard haynes" showed up at the bar, year or so later. he saw i had an interest......gave me my 1st set of quills. painted off and on, for years. 1986........i got FIRED from a job.........1ST TIME IN MY LIFE!!!! and i swore i would never work for someone who was dumber then me...............so 86 i went full time................got into computer/plotter in 93..............
CrabbyOldGuy
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I have been screen printing since 1974. It seems like a lot longer when you put a number to the years. Started as an "instead of" job or until I could find something else. Guess I never found something else. Still find something new or interesting all the time.
mariessigns
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20 plus years at the same shop , but when I was real young 5 or so I learned to shoot the middle finger and peace sign
iSign
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who's that 35 yr old in your avatar then?
These posts are a trip when we find out how much we don't know about people we thought we knew...
20 years for me... almost to the day
