What do your parents/family/you do for a living?

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  1. Cate8

    Cate8 Senior Member

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    well? :)
     
  2. pink floyd

    pink floyd carousing&ransacking

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    my parents are both psychologists..they have their phDs..but my dad is going back to school to be a naturalist/park ranger, hehe
     
  3. Aristartle

    Aristartle Snow Falling on Cedars Lifetime Supporter

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    Mom is a Spanish teacher at the Catholic Highschool that I attended. Was handy to get access to the photocopy machine, the treasures in the lost and found, and a cool ride to school and back. Dad works in geo-technical design at the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario. He knows a lot about dirt, numbers and how to talk to engineers.
     
  4. KJohns24029

    KJohns24029 Member

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    My dad is a truck driver and my mom works for Fred Meyer. What's funny is their rich.
     
  5. YankNBurn

    YankNBurn Owner

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    My dad is a retired Mechanical Estimator from NBBJ and The Austin Company and my mother is a retired Large Winder from Eldec Corp. They are oldies, lol but I love em dearly.
     
  6. YankNBurn

    YankNBurn Owner

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    Freddy Meyers, aint heard that name in a long time. As a kid we loved to go there, guess its like that for Wally Worlds in the south.
     
  7. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    My dad is a retired mechanical engineer who worked for Kodak. My mom is a dialysis nurse, as well as a clinician and nurse educator.
     
  8. seamonster66

    seamonster66 discount dracula

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    my mom writes software direction manuals and teaches classes on software, used to be a newspaper writer

    my dad is ex air force, aerospace engineer, project mgmt consultant, and is now a physicians assistant at a heart hospital for retirement
     
  9. DancerAnnie

    DancerAnnie Resident Beach Bum

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    My dad is a janitor at the school in my hometown, as well as a carpenter.

    My mother, before she died, was a relief operator at Ford.

    How much more blue collar can you get????
     
  10. Penny

    Penny Supermoderaginaire

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    my dad is an industrial director.. like he's the vice-president of this salad-packaging company.. and a consultant..

    my mom doesn't work, but she paints..
     
  11. Death

    Death Grim Reaper Lifetime Supporter

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    my mom works on the top floor of City Hall. public works/civil engineering. whatever that means. i know it has something to do with sidewalks.

    me and my brother both work for the same pizza place. different locations, though.
     
  12. NightRose

    NightRose idiosynractic rose

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    My mother is a stay at home mum, while my dad work's in mining.
     
  13. LetLovinTakeHold

    LetLovinTakeHold Cuz it will if you let it

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    My Dad runs a printing press......he actually helped me get a job at the shop he works at. I fix the equipment he works on. My mom used to be a painter, and worked in a paint store in Denver for years. She designed and mixed a lot of the paint around the city, including Coors Field. Now she stays at home but she makes hemp jewelry, quilts, and grows enough food to feed our extended family.
     
  14. KozmicBlue

    KozmicBlue Senior Member

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    My parents used to be lawyers, then they retired and now my mum is studying and teaching archaeology in the university, and my dad is doing some property development stuff.

    I work for a development organization, focusing on human rights.
     
  15. AquaLight

    AquaLight Senior Member

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    My dad was a pediatrician , and my mother is a pharmacist
     
  16. Zoomie

    Zoomie My mom is dead, ok?

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    My dad is in a box in Rochester, NY. Has been since 1965. Mom moved in next door to him in 2001. He was a NYC cop, later owned a nightclub. She was a beautician and later, a factory foreman for Harris Semiconductor. I am the last.
     
  17. fitzy21

    fitzy21 Worst RT Mod EVAH!!!!

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    my dad is the Equipment Manager for Boston Public School Athletics

    my mom works for the science dept for the same school dept.

    my sister is a mother and a full time lifeguard
     
  18. redyelruc

    redyelruc The Yard Man

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    My Dad was a bricklayer when he could find work. My mum was a cleaner/housekeeper.
     
  19. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    we're currently 'riders of the purple wage'. my mom gets my dad's retirement. half of what they gave him when he retired from more then 30 years of working for the railroad and telegrapher/towerman/clerk. i've done a number of different things in my life, but right now, i'm not gettting anything. my wife gets dissability and does a bit of tayloring on the side. although i think she spends more on it as a hobby then she actually gets from doing so.

    at any rate i wash her dishes and floors and clothing and cook most of what both of us eat, and her check pays the rent and buys the groceries.

    the only thing we own really, that's of any 'asset' value, is this computer, and that's not really above low middle of the line when it was new.

    my dad had a pretty good income toward the end of his working, but when i was in school we pretty much just bearly got by.

    things i have done myself include heavy equipment apprentice on the railroad myself, also driller's helper on mineral exploration rigs, a lot of dishwashing and general help restaraunt jobs, a few other things involving geology and tecnology and that sort of thing. what i did in the airforce to get out of being drafted was fix radar jamming equipment. nothing particularly glamourous. but mostly odd bits like that. i've sorted fruit and stacked boxes too. worked for harry and david/jackson and perkins/bear creek (different names associated with different products, of the same company really, in southern oregon)

    never really been social enough nor gutsy enough to really get some of the kinds of jobs i probably could have if i had been.

    so now all i have is a wife who gets a nut check and a mom, who is almost 90 who gets half of what was dad's retirement.

    i'd love to be working somewhere by wifie can't seem to understand that someone needs to be allowed to get enough sleep to be able to do so. or at least i would and always have.

    creating and exploring are what i live for, but since i have close to zero tollarance for any kind of stress, espcially social stressess, i've never been able to do anything as closely related to ether as i would have prefered, for a living.

    =^^=
    .../\...
     
  20. mystical_shroom

    mystical_shroom acerbic

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    My parents are in the circus...
     
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