I am 40 years old and have been running Seti@home for about 13 years now. I am into astronomy, computers, learning Mandarin Chinese, and hanging out with my 2 daughters.
Check out my astronomy blog if you like:
http://plateauterrace.blogspot.com/
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The idea of detecting mindful signals from space has always been exciting to me. I don't even need to meet them. Just knowing they are there is good enough.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.