What's your profession? Age?

I had a rich wife so never worked after 30 . From 16 to 28 I was a soldier .These days many ex-soldiers work as cops in US .Same job .

Update on my profile, forgot to add in my journey into audiophile.
Began in the 70;s, Small Marantz, Dual turn table, ,, then Philips 2 way speakers,  which i thought were the best fidelity,,,next to my Thors they sounded like crap,,so i sold them off for $50..,,amazing how we thought we had great sound.
Now i am finishing upa  long modification in my system,. new caps, new IC's, havea  old jadis preamp arriving tomorrow, has some issues, but will upgrade all the 30 yr old parts. 
Anyhow sadly audio world has turned downwards, no more retail shops where folks can actuallu hear the components . A good teck geek , not easy to find, making it very risky to buy a  expenisve component. 
Things do not look bright for audio futures,, and that is a shame.
Music is high art, and is the one way we connect with the soul, our minds need good music for health and pleasure. Head phones won't work. Has to be a  speaker set up for the real experience. 
I am into all classical, 20th C is 99% of my collection. 
anyway, glad to read some bios here. I see  many others in the 60's, like myself,  and  still involved  in this wonderful hobby. 
Great to meet you guys. 

I own a Fertilizer & farm chemical co in the mid west.  I'm 66 yrs old & filled my first fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia, tank when I was 12.  My system is around $22K.

An update to my previous post. I seem to have over stated the good stuff, but my body has has slightly less metal in it than my TT platter (10kgs). Virtually every joint and rods and screws up and down my back.

I am having the time of my life. Yes. Living on Oxy at high doses plus more. Pain is 10 every day but it is just normal. My lovely wife fell and snapped the right shoulder humerus from the joint ball. 2 days ago had a plate and numerous screws (8 I think) and will be in a sling for 6 weeks. Night before I was to drive her to the hospital I fell and dislocated my hip, a metal one. Not good for both of us. Then there is cancer...

I have a good system, we love it, and we have diverted our down time to music we love. We live in an nice place and are blessed for it.

I just wanted to show that there is a back story to all of us that we are not aware of.

It’s not how big our stuff is, but how we as people, but appreciate life and get the best out of the time and lives we have left.

Cheers and prayers to everyone. A 🇦🇺

I just turned 71, and am retired from working in architect-engineer consulting for military clients. I got interested in audio stuff in the early 70s, had various systems over the years and then none at all for a while. Oddly enough this guy's web site...

http://www.mother-of-tone.com/index.htm

...got me going again shortly after I retired in 2011, and now I've got a dedicated listening room, all the stuff you can read about on my system page, and have spent quite a bit of time and not too much money on room treatments. I'm in the process of gradually buying again all the vinyl I gave away years ago.