Poll: What percentage of your life have you ... ?

Thanks to Nutty Bunny in this thread for the idea.

What percentage of your life have you… been married?

Been a parent? (and a grandparent!)

Been in your current profession?

Calculating by months (or days, I suppose) would give a more precise answer but it’s not necessary.

Mine:
married . . 25% (added up 3 different times, might be off)
parental … 46.8% (no grands here, yet)
professional … 46.8 % (started when I had my first kid, can ya tell? :stuck_out_tongue: )

Married 11% of my life.
Parent 42% of my life (wow – that’s a shock. I had my daughter when I was 20, not that young, but, I guess so!)
In my current profession, that’s harder to define. My current profession is basically customer service/sales and I’ve done that since I was 14, so – 60% of my life. If we’re talking just specifically this company, it is 6%, if specifically just call center work, then it becomes 11%.

Not married, but partnered - 19.63%
been a parent - 0% (and likely will be that forever)
current profession - Roughly 31%, in my current job - 8.78%

Married: 43.6%, but the final number will be about 46.1%
Parent: 0%, unless you count pets
Current profession: 30.8%

Married: 20.2%
Parent: 0.7% (we have a 2-month-old)
Current profession is hard to pin down, but my current job: 4.2%

Married: 11.88%
Parent: 55.61%
Current profession: 18.83%

0.00%
0.00%
0.05%

63%
40%
40%

Strictly speaking, this is 0%, 0%, 0% for me.

However, I’ve effectively been a semi-professional poker player since college.

Also, I don’t have any children of my own, but I do have two little brothers who are much younger than me (first was born when I was 13, the other when I was 15), and I’ve been living at home while mom and step-dad both have full time jobs. So, I’ve done a lot of de faco parenting.

So you could say that, in spirit, my answers are:

Married: 0%
Parent: 49%
Job: 17.7%
Fun Fact: The only “real” job I’ve ever had was a delivery boy for a video rental place on 1st Avenue when I was 16. I quit after two weeks. So, total percentage of life spent employed: 0.14%.

0%, 0%, 10% – if you consider “customer service” a career.

0, 0, and 55.

32%
0%
50%

48%
23% (we took our time on the kid thing)
48% (still in the same profession I took up when we got married / graduated from college)

Jammer

Married 18%
Parent 16%
Profession 36%

Married: 24%, includes 4 marriages and 4 divorces. I’m 68
Parenting: Thats hard to answer due to circumstances. I’m still a parent to my second wife’s children, even though we were divorced and she died almost 22 years ago. Can’t reall give a percentage.
Professions: I’m retired, but I did 23 years in the Navy and operated my own truck, in intersye commerce, for 24 years.

What percentage of your life have you… been married? (36-27)/36 = 9/36 = 25%.

Been a parent? (36-28)/36 = 8/36 = 22.22%.

Been in your current profession? (36-21)/36 = 41.67%. If you mean industry sector specific, then (36-24)/36 = 33.33%.

Married, 12.5%; including legal common law status, 25.1%.

Parent, 5.7%.

Current profession, 16.3%.

I did it down to the day. :slight_smile:

Married: 35%

Parent: 17.5%

Profession: 32.5%

Married = 26.9%
Parent = 0%
Current job = 28.1%

I should really have added a ‘pet owner’ category. :confused:

Aes, aww, you only gots a nickel!

A R Cane, I’d consider you as having spent 69% in your profession.

And well, folks, since this is a human-interest type question, count ‘industry sector specific’ if you feel it’s more proper. Or don’t, if you don’t!

I almost typed ‘industry specter’. Heh. Ghosties on the brain!