Doctor or lawyer?
I'm 40 and haven't used it since high school. Went the tech route before years later switching to legal studies and getting into insurance. The only people I see using cursive are doctors and lawyers and both are almost always illegible.
Engineer and scientist. I'm 57. My wife (will turn 51yo soon) is the same. We still keep lab notebooks, although less frequently filled than in the past. I use cursive every day, even though 90% is keyboard. I write fast and neatly, was necessary in HS & college. Correspondence with family and girlfriends, etc., in that era was via letter, and persisted with aunts and uncles and others of that vintage until their passing. Ironically, my 96yo uncle (last one living) was an early-adoptee of computers, so with his macular degeneration, is now typically keyboard only. Although I've slackened over the years in "perfection", it's often been said my handwriting looks like my mom's. My dad's was pretty good too. He was left-handed, but forced to write right-handed by nuns in Catholic school.
I spend enough time in front of a computer for work, HFboards, etc., that I have never been interested in video games or other computer distractions*, and actually welcome the respite which comes from hand-writing, cursive, etc.
*Although I do want to learn a CAD freeware package. Several false starts in the past. Need to commit one of these days.
Addendum: I have a 64yo colleague. HS education. We just honored him with a career excellence distinction - could have been done a decade ago, but he's an unassuming guy. He has kept a lab notebook since he started. Has stacks of them. Writes what he did every day in there. Sometimes it's only a couple lines. Sometimes there is detail. I and other colleagues have gone to him numerous times with "Bill, remember when we did "X", I think it was May-June of 2012, do remember how we did the equipment setup and whether we did both product A and B, or just A?" And 9 times out of 10, he'll have the notes. Handwritten lab notebooks aren't subject to IT archival policies or storage platform migrations.
