What did/do your parents do for a living?

[rpryor03]

My parents were both lawyers in the 80s and 90s. My father is retired, and my mother teaches history at Kent State.

How did she get from law to teaching history? Through a PhD or some shortcut?

Yeah, a PhD.

[Cranberry]

Dad:

Civil Servant in the Court of Auditors - 1984-today

Mum:

Secretary - 1989-2003
Accountant - 2003-today
Did not work for about 2-3 years when my sister and me were born

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Mother - 5th grade teacher
Father - Financial Advisor

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Dad - accountant, asset manager, underwriter
Mom - mail carrier USPS

[RFayette]

Mom:  stay-at-home mom, English teacher
Dad:  software engineer

[patrick1]

Mom: Telephone operator at a hospital for 46 years, retired
Dad: Letter carrier with USPS for 46 years, retired

Both worked very hard and I am proud of them. Hat tip to their respective unions.

[Torie]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

Correct.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

Correct.

President of Capitol  Records is no small deal. 

[memphis]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

Correct.

President of Capitol  Records is no small deal. 

Please don't feed the narcissism.

[checkers]

Dad: Electrician.
Mum: Doctor, but she works for the public service in a research position.

[publicunofficial]

Mom - Real Estate Agent
Dad - Former construction worker, current alcoholic

[Ban my account ffs!]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

Correct.

President of Capitol  Records is no small deal. 

Please don't feed the narcissism.

I think this explains a lot.  Or not.

[morgieb]

Dad: Factory worker turned manager of said factory. Not 100% sure what he does now since I don't live with him anymore, I believe though he has a similar position at his current workplace to to the one at his previous workplacing.
Mum: Has traditionally done largely office/clerical work, both in the public and private sectors. Has since moved into management of her current workplace. She didn't work for about 3 years while having me and my sister.

In reality though actually what my parents do is hard to explain.

[Donerail]

My parents were both copy editors at various newspapers, mostly in Florida - the Herald, the Sentinel, etc - before they both got jobs at the Tampa Bay Times shortly before I was born. My dad still works there, while my mom switched to teaching 6th grade English for a year and now teaches at a K-5 gifted program.

[Maxwell]

My father is a college professor in the field of Clinical Psychology and my mom is a entrepreneur in the field of Greeting Cards.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In reality though actually what my parents do is hard to explain.

That means they're spies.

[afleitch]

My dad is a retired housing officer and my mum is a teacher of children with behavioural needs.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My mother was a trophy wife. My Dad was an executive at a record company in Los Angeles during that portion of his career when I was alive (my Dad sired me at 45, and he had a most fascinating - almost novelistic - career prior to me arrival on this planet).

Lloyd Dunn?

Correct.

President of Capitol  Records is no small deal. 

Please don't feed the narcissism.

I think this explains a lot.  Or not.

It does.  But he's too old to change.

[The Other Castro]

I'm the illegitimate son of Brian Sandoval and Kirsten Gillibrand.


(jk they're both lawyers)

[Deus Naturae]

My dad was a risk analyst for a hedge fund. My step-dad was employed in a middle management position at a duct tape company. My mom was originally my dad's secretary and then later a housewife.

[Badger]

Mother: Animal rights activist.
Father: Butcher

Funny story how they met......

[dead0man]

mom=RN
pops=factory worker until his union forced the plant to move and him to "retire" at 50something

[Gustaf]

Mother
Stay-at-Home-Mom (until I was 11)
Elementary Schoolteacher (11 to 14)
Stay-at-Home-Mom/Part-time Student (14 to 17)
College Professor (since I was 17)

Father
Physician (my entire life)

Wait, how do you go from elementary school teacher to college professor just like that?

My dad is an economist who spent most of his professional life as the chief economist of one of the larger banks in Sweden.

My mother spent most of her professional career running the arbitrage unit at a Swedish trading house.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Dad's an electrician and Mum runs a bookshop. In both cases this is since the early/mid 1970s. Dad was also a youth worker for the local council (now there's a job from another - better - era in local government) for a time in the 70s. Dad's sister is a retired nurse, while his brother is a retired blood specialist of some kind (on the technical side). Mum's brother is an artist who has occasionally been employed as an art teacher.

My paternal grandfather worked a bewildering range of jobs, including in a tailors (or was it a drapers shop?) in the East End, as an egg salesman, as an upland smallholder and as an accountant (for a poultry company. He might have done other stuff there, I forget. I do know that he never ate chicken). But he was mostly one of those strange professional-in-all-but-actuality amateur musicians (as a highly skilled church organist and a well-regarded chamber choir conductor). His father was a rockman (i.e. a blaster) in a slate quarry. My paternal grandmother mostly worked in retail, most notably at a wool shop. She also knitted with a frighteningly high level of skill (particularly very complex jumpers. I can't remember whether she ever knitted for sale or not). Her father was gassed in the First World War and as a result worked a desk job for Monmouthshire County Council. My paternal grandfather was a teacher (secondary modern) and horticulturist. He also played football to a decent standard when young (happily deciding against playing professionally) and basically was junior football coaching in Shropshire for a while. His father was a coal miner (and his union paid for his son's teaching qualifications). My paternal grandmother was also a teacher, though of a different sort: she ran a village school for decades, spending most of this time (eventually unsuccessfully, alas) trying to prevent its closure. Her father was a hilariously sketchy grocer with tragicomic delusions of grandeur and her mother a sort of Methodist Granny Weatherwax.