what do your parents do?

[Nuzzolese]

I'm just curious
What do your parents do, as jobs? Or what what do they do now if not employed? Or what did they do?

My dad teaches art and design to college students. And he likes beer and the outdoors.

My mom is the assistant dean of students at a medical school. And she likes handbags and Florida (she grew up there)

[TAL]

My dad teaches electronics and computers at a vocational school.
My mom teaches Swedish at the same school.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

My dad is senior design engineer for a rail company. He also plays bass in a Shadows tribute band.

My mum is a secretary for a company that makes sheds and summer houses. She is also my dad's groupie. :)

[Qdrop]

My mother is the assistant to the Dean of Biology/Biotech Research at Rochester Institute of Technology.

she's also on the Administation board.


I don't have a father.

[Nuzzolese]

My dad is senior design engineer for a rail company.

That's what my grandfather did! He designed railroad cars. We had all these glossy framed pictures of train cars hanging up in our house for years because they were promotional pictures from my grandfather's company - I don't know if they were ones that he designed all by himself. And I never knew that's what he did until I was about 14 or 15. I just thought my parents liked the train motif. Like how some people are into Lighthouses.

[voltanapricot]

I only posted this last week but what the hell. They're publicans.

[Calimero jr.]

My father is a retired teacher. He was one of the last of the "generalists" teachers generation in high school here, he has been teaching french, history, geography, maths, natural sciences and german.

My mother is a medical secretary at the town's hospital.

[Nuzzolese]

I only posted this last week but what the hell. They're publicans.

I remember that, but I didn't know what it meant. I thought you were being cute and saying they hung out in pubs frequently.

[Junker]

My dad watches tv all day long and he likes football (the world football), western movies, discovery chanel programs. He has a job but he only works when the company he works for call him. And he's already retired.

My mom is a pedagogue (morning) and a teacher (afternoon)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

That's what my grandfather did! He designed railroad cars. We had all these glossy framed pictures of train cars hanging up in our house for years because they were promotional pictures from my grandfather's company - I don't know if they were ones that he designed all by himself. And I never knew that's what he did until I was about 14 or 15. I just thought my parents liked the train motif. Like how some people are into Lighthouses.

(y) My dad is really into trains too...not in some saddo train spotting way but he really enjoys his job.

[fucktopgirl]

my father is a artistpainter,he read a lot and play guitar

my mother was a mother at home and ceramist

[na§tee]

i remember an interview with mike myers who said that his parents, who had emigrated from scotland/uk/wherever, were really shocked when they came to canada when people would ask about what your parents did for a living. they thought it was frightfully rude! i dunno. i guess you do make judgements.

my mum is a pharmaceutical technician.
my dad is a motherfucking SOLDIER! no. not really. well. he was in the army for 20+ years - an engineer. he helped design the warrior tank (http://www.nato.int/sfor/indexinf/94/tanks/b000814w.jpg). i was allowed to go in one before, outta the manhole type-thing! my mum was driving tho! yikes! it was rad. [i'm not lying - they had sort of family day out things for the army kids in germany and they would do stuff like this. of course a soldier dude would be in there with you!]
he had to go and visit a sick tank wherever it got poorly and like, er, advise and stuff. like when a bunch of squaddies drunkenly drove one into a muddy lake and having to decide how to take it out! lolz.
since he left the army he now works as the transport manager for the local council back home on the isle of lewis. comhairle nan eilean siar. he deals with bus drivers a lot. i dunno!

[b i o n i c]

my dad is an ex-poop sweeper, now a criminal and is doing time for murder
my mom is a crack-whore prostitute whose works at mcdonalds by day

[voltanapricot]

I remember that, but I didn't know what it meant. I thought you were being cute and saying they hung out in pubs frequently.
Ha! It's almost the same as my friend who was ashamed of her dad being a postman* and told people he was a Communications Officer.

My parents are managers in the pub trade and are making me work for them next [busy] Bank Holiday weekend. Those bastards. I love them and free Diet Pepsis to bits though.

*Mailman?

[roosta]

CLO OWNS A PUB!

ROUND HER GAFF FOR FREE PINTS AND LOCK IN! SWEEEET!!!!!

[na§tee]

voltanac: your parents own a motherfucking PUB? that is so rad! [i'm gonna use rad in every post i make today, i think]. or maybe i am assuming that because they are managers they are managing their own establishment. either way doing business in alcohol is like.. awesome.
p.s. can they get me some discount magners? ;)

[Nuzzolese]

I always thought it would be great to have parents who managed a restaurant or a candy store or something where I'd get free treats all the time - but I never considered that they might make me work there. And they probably would. The only helpful thing I had growing up was that my dad was so good at art and design, he'd always help us with our school projects. So my visual aids were usually well appreciated - except for the times when he got TOO artistic and tried to make statements and obscure references with my 2nd grade mobile of household objects. "Dadddd, let's just make it NORMAL!" My brothers had his handiness in the pinewood derby.

[voltanapricot]

I'm wondering if any of you have any interest in what your parents do/did for a living?

Do you enjoy making art Nuzz? na§tee has gone for something completely off from the forces and pharmaceuticals for some media-type degree and I'm guessing Yorkshire~Rose isn't into railroad design?

[B4BY 4NN]

My mom works at a health insurance place as a customer rep. Nothing special. She could have been a lawyer is we had moved, but no.

As for my dad, he probably just chops firewood and feeds the chickens.

[Nuzzolese]

I have always enjoyed art and studied it in school but just as a pasttime. My mother and I both majored in English in college and now we both work for the same medical school. But both of them earned higher degrees - dad a MFA and mom a PHD. I didn't. Of course, my mom didn't get hers until her late 30s but she had a family first.

[Nuzzolese]

As for my dad, he probably just chops firewood and feeds the chickens.

Why, do you think he's...Amish?

[ms.peachy]

My dad is some sort of big computer systems analyst brain guy, and my mom is... I dunno, some sort of real estate development marketing something or other.

I try not to ask too many questions.

[na§tee]

I'm wondering if any of you have any interest in what your parents do/did for a living?

Do you enjoy making art Nuzz? na§tee has gone for something completely off from the forces and pharmaceuticals for some media-type degree and I'm guessing Yorkshire~Rose isn't into railroad design?
interest, hmmm. no.
my mum only started training to do the pharmacist shit after we moved to lewis - when i was about 12. before that she just did random isht. stayed at home. we moved about in germany maybe every 10/15 months or so so she sorta had no choice.
my dad, i had an interest insofar that i was born and raised in germany for 12 years because of his job - the family as a whole had to rotate around it. i wasn't really interested in tanks and engineering and stuff though. neither was my brother. i thought travelling around was pretty RAD though.

[Pres Zount]

my mother works in a department store and my father works a vegetable stall after getting fired from a departmeent store.

[Bob]

my mom's an actuary. it took me about 20 years to figure out exactly what an actuary was. even longer to find out how much money they make. she'd been holding out on me!

my dad's a computer...something. i still don't totally know what he does. i think he's a database technician or something. he doesn't like it anymore though, he wants to learn something else. best of luck i guess.

[mickill]

My dad used to work as a train mechanic/inspector. He retired a couple of years ago at 52. Now he buys properties and rents/leases them out.

I had a stay-at-home mom. She also used to manage the pizza shop my dad owned, watched after a few other kids and had some different part time jobs here and there.

[Rancid_Beasties]

My mum is a social worker and a teacher, my dad is the manager of a alcohol wholesaling company.

[B4BY 4NN]

Why, do you think he's...Amish?

Borderline, yeah.


Oh, and I forgot to mention his 15 cats and 2 daughters he never takes/took care of.

[kll]

My dad was an insurance claims manager who had a video business on the side (as a hobby), now he does insurance on the side and spends most of his time with the videos.

My mom works for The Donald.

[zorra_chiflada]

my mum's a home ec teacher
my dad's a retired bus driver

[alexandra]

my dad's a production technician, and self-employed on the side. my mom's an interpreter and studies to become a teacher of languages. they're also parents (duh). my sister will soon be a doctor, my brother's in jr high, i'm in high school, and our cat does cat stuff. that's the whole family.

[Kid Presentable]

My Dad's dead as a motherfuck, Mum's just chillin.(y)

[mp-seventythree]

My parents are both retired. My dad was an auctioneer and surveyor (he had his own business), and my mum was a secretary for the same company. They sold the business in the late 80's when my dad was 45 and he's pretty much been retired ever since (although he has done work as a sailmaker, marine electrician and computer engineer since, but only really to keep him from being bored).

[SobaViolence]

my mom is a travel agent and piano teacher.
my dad is a freelance corporate advisor, business guru.

she likes puppies and patsy cline, he likes the outdoors and smoking pot recreationally. both are divorced. from each other.

[Randetica]

mum: wannabe housewife
wannabe dad: cop

[Lindsey_1535]

My daddy is a cop and he loves cars!
My mom is some sort of sales lady, sells steel and other metal products?

[Sarky Devotchka]

my mom was a clothing buyer for a department store, then a hairdresser, then an asethetician (facials, waxing, etc.), then she worked for clinique, then estee lauder, then just in the ladies clothing department at Dillards, then she was a teacher's aide who also worked with austistic kids on the side. Now she teaches asthetics and makeup at a cosmetology school and gives free haircuts at an orphanage.

my dad had a contracting business when I was growing up, I used to hang out on construction sites with him sometimes. He sold that company to my half-brother, so he could focus on running the family cattle ranch in New Mexico after my grandpa died. I don't really know what he does now, but I know my brother was running the company into the ground, so he was thinking of going back to it. Some of the time he was a drug dealer too. Mostly coccaine.

[Chicka B]

My mom is a "stay at home" mom, she never had a real job. But she can't get one because she has mental problems or something.

My dad had a lot of jobs, and keeps changing them. First he worked at a factory, then he had some computer fixing job, then worked at a nursing home, then he was a nurse's aid, then he worked at some thing called "labor ready", then he was a truck driver that went to different states and stuff, then switched to a local truck driver, and he recently quit so now he's doing nothing. But he gambles at party poker.

[g-mile7]

Pops:College Mathmatics Teacher(from the dumb-Arthimatic to the WTF-Diffrential Equations), also holds a master's in Enginering (which he hopes to teach soon). Also cleans/washes clothes like a mad man (does the majority of it)
Moms: Mother thats a job with 6 kids (I count my pops too haha)

[jabumbo]

my dad teaches international business/law or something at a local university and does some consulting on the side. he is pretty crazy, and knows just about everyone in this area...

my mom is a sub/aide at my old elementary school

[kleptomaniac]

my dad teaches business...does contractor stuff....he does a lot. :)
and my mom's job is to stay home, and put up with me and my dog all day. ahaahahaha! :D

i drive her so crazy, you'd think that i should be giving her an allowance each week.

[marsdaddy]

My mom works in hospital administration. She's done that for about 15 years. Before that she counciled people on state disability. Before that she was an administrative assistant -- secretary.

My step-dad is a restaurant equipment salesperson.

My real dad is dead.

[DroppinScience]

My dad is a dentist

My mom is a substitute teacher

[cosmo105]

my mom's a superhero.

oh and she's a pretty high-level sales manager or something or other at a copper, brass, and aluminum distributor.


and she's an events coordinator and hike leader for the Sierra Club.



and a superhero.

[ms.peachy]

My mom is a "stay at home" mom, she never had a real job.

:eek: I do hope she'd slap you if she heard you say that!

[Randetica]

rich ass bastard families

[Chicka B]

:eek: I do hope she'd slap you if she heard you say that!

Haha! She don't do anything, I clean and all that shit. Seriously, she just sleeps all day.

[Freebasser]

They help me kidnap and murder children.

I probably shouldn't have said that.

*opens blinds with barrel of rifle*

[QueenAdrock]

My dad's retired now, but he was a forensic chemist for the government for 30 years. Now everyone wants his job because they watch too much CSI. Interesting side note: CSI called my dad to find out if it was possible to get DNA from a smoked cigarette butt, to use in an episode.

My mom is quitting her job soon (they're moving), but she's a pathology assistant in a lab.

[Yeti]

Lately, it seems that they only read the obituaries in the paper. Every time I talk with them someone has died. Last week Merly died. I wish I had met Merly's mom so I could ask her why she named her son Merly.

[kaiser soze]

My dad's retired, but he used to work for the Erie Canal as a supervisor

My mom took care of 8 kids (remarriage), but also babysat, wallpapered, cooked for a daycare, antique dealer...now she's a grandma and makes nice afghans/quilts

good people!

[DandyFop]

Dad is a lawyer. Insurance-type stuff, not criminal.

Mom is an artist. She paints oils and watercolors mostly. She got a teaching degree a few years ago but hasn't used it because she is ill and the schedule was too demanding.

[burbboi]

My dad is a Sytems Analyst at Xerox

My mom is a librarian at an elementary school.

[Beckalina]

Alot of people have teachers for parents.

Dad tests railway tracks for cracks, also known as an ultrasound technician :D

Mum doesn't do paid work anymore, she volunteers at a horse stable, she loves dem horses.

[vickista]

I'm just curious
What do your parents do, as jobs? Or what what do they do now if not employed? Or what did they do?

My dad teaches art and design to college students. And he likes beer and the outdoors.

My mom is the assistant dean of students at a medical school. And she likes handbags and Florida (she grew up there)


wow!my parents are florists.but before that my parents were sucessful restraunt owners, they met when my mum applied for a waitressing job, over the summer holidays(she was in her last yr @ uni)

[monkey]

my daddy builds and fixes houses. my mommy likes to try to fix people via herbs and hippie ways. reiki is fun.

[BangkokB]

Alot of people have teachers for parents.

My dad bets on the horse jockeys and my mom rolls drunks




JK

Both are teachers. Dad taught Geography and Mom 2nd Grade. Both are retired but make so much $ from the 30 year plan that Dad teaches fuckups that the judge orders to go to school. BTW the funding for that job has been slashed to the bone~cue the Livin on the Prayer music

[HEIRESS]

my dad is an electrician and owns his own teeny tiny company that doesnt do very well at all because my dad is too nice to be good at managing a business which requires one to be mean to people sometimes, especially if they decide not to pay you

my mom has an art therapy diploma and is a sexual assault/rape counsellor, but she's done it all on a volunteer basis the past 10 years because the gov't likes to give womens programs as little funding as possible

[BangkokB]

Hey Heiress,
I bumped into you with a hardonn sorry*insert embarrassment Smilies if my POS computer could handle that simple task

[HEIRESS]

ahhahaha oh shit sons
!

[SobaViolence]

ps. my parents kick ass.

and most of the time it is hard to admit, but i love them.

[BangkokB]

When I was 18 I thought my Dad a fool, when I was 21 I was amazed at how much he'd learned over the years

or something like that~Mark Twain

[Medellia]

My dad did construction, then he was an electrician, then both of my parents were hap ki do (sp?) instructors, although that was a volunteer thing. Then he was a repo man, a RNA at a nursing home, and now he is an EMT. He also wrote a book.

My mom was a waitress, then worked the front desk at a Holiday Inn, then took a few years off to go back to college, got her bachelor's, worked at Radio Shack, a daycare, and now is an Activities Assistant (I think, can't remember her exact title, she's second in command though) at a nursing home (not the same one my dad worked at though) and occassionally sells artwork.

[Justin]

My dad is a retired coal miner of 27 years.

My mom is a maniac inside the home with the cleaning and arts and crafts.

[zorra_chiflada]

hey everyone, lets play a really fun game. it's called:

THINK OF YOUR PARENTS HAVING SEX

[Medellia]

Ewww. When I was in high school they would tell me so I could keep my sister away from their bedroom. Not like "we're gonna go fuck, watch her." It was more of a "could you watch your sister for awhile?" and then they'd disappear and I'd shudder and turn the TV up loudly to drown out any noise.



:(

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

the first job i can remember my mum having was as a live-in caretaker at the local quaker meeting house. my family are quaker (well WERE as soon as my grandad pops his clogs) so i guess it made sense as she needed a job and a place to live. it seemed like a pretty decent job to me at the time and i used to help out quite a bit. but it didnt pay the bills and she wanted to buy a car, so she got a part time job as a secretary at toiletry distributor. the office was at the company owner's house. they were nice people and i used to go there after school and watch cartoons and get fed chocolate biscuits. the owner's wife had a habit of wearing loose tops & no bra, she used to bend over a lot. at age eleven, this seemed brilliant. they offered her a full time job as office manager and she took it. this meant we moved out of the meeting house and into suburban hell. rubbish! she left that job for some reason and took a few more office manager's jobs. one company made the machines that makes packaging for food products. one company made machines that measure electricity in some form or another. another was a well posh french restaurant and hotel. she briefly worked at a company that made ceilings for offices, but she left that cos they used too much bad language and were a bunch of dicks. BUT about a year and a half ago, her and her manfriend sold up and moved up north with the idea of starting a bed and breakfast. they were both tired of all the traffic jams and stress of living down here. it has taken them a while but they have just had an offer accepted on a nice big house in scarborough, so the dream could well be coming true. she is currently temping.

i have never met my father and have no desire to.

[befsquire]

before my mom died, she worked as an administrator at martin marietta. she had to do all the paperwork associated with an aspect of pershing missles. she loved the beach and she adored children. before i was born (she wanted another baby really bad), she had several foster children, but it upset her to have to give them back.

my stepdad manages a warehouse. he loves doing stuff around his house on weekends. he has 14 acres he and his wife have to mow, and then he works on projects, like totally reoutfitting his pontoon boat (it used to be my grandpa's).

my dad is retired due to poor physical health. however, he would be retirement age now. he hates it. he's very bored. he used to work at a Ford dealership in the parts department. i don't think he loved his job, but he liked most of the people he worked with, and he loved bitching about those he didn't like. my dad loves dogs and likes to make fun of cats. he also loves beer and reading.

my stepmom is a manager at a bank. she doesn't really talk about her job or the people she works with, but she's never complained about it either. she's tired of having dogs right now. she loves reading and sweaters. she has an identical twin, and when i was little, that really confused me.

[zippo]

except for the times when he got TOO artistic and tried to make statements and obscure references with my 2nd grade mobile of household objects. "Dadddd, let's just make it NORMAL!"

HAHA...i identify. and that one exclamation says so much about us. about insecurity and comfort, and being square and already thought out. did you know our lives are already thought out for us? we are capable of going through our lives and not ever, ever, drawing out of the lines.

haha "lets just make it NORMAL!"...ha...that brings back such memories. ha! that desperate cry for fitting in, something we cant live without. hehe. fitting in.hehe. he....l...p.

[zippo]

hey everyone, lets play a really fun game. it's called:

THINK OF YOUR PARENTS HAVING SEX

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[zippo]

my dads a diplomat

my moms a housewife/administrator

they were happy together but have now lost themselves amidst impatience and misunderstanding.

[Chicka B]

I walked in on my parents doing it when I was 4, and it wasn't very funny. I thought he was killing her with a potato so I started crying and tried to pull him off. :(

[hardnox71]

Father-When I last lived with him I was ten. At that time he was a welder in Southern California. He used to put those huge cargo ships together. I have no idea what he does now nor do I care.

Mother-I haven't seen her since I was three. Don't know what she did then.

1st stepmother-Died when I was seven. Don't remember what she did, either.

2nd stepmother-Some kind of secretary in a medical office in Southern Cali.

Grandfather-Retired after 40 years with the Belt Railway in Chicago. Don't know exactly what he did.

Grandmother-Gave me a constant hard time. That was her job. She was quite good at it.

[SobaViolence]

hey everyone, lets play a really fun game. it's called:

THINK OF YOUR PARENTS HAVING SEX

that was every sunday before my dad went to church...kitchen=under master bedroom=(n)

[King of Rock $]

They used to whip me with a strap, when I was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

[yeahwho]

Just because my parents make a living being porn stars doesn't mean you get to belittle me. :mad:

[b-grrrlie]

My parents are both old and retired.

Mum used to work in a glass factory, making glasswool and these thingies up in electric poles to tie the wires around on. The last 30-odd years she's been a bitter housewife tho, until once a couple of years ago when dad was visiting us girls around the world she moved out to her own flat in a new town, just a couple of months before her 70th birthday.

Dad was some kind of wood industry engineer, first with veneer, then in a saw mill. He was very active in voluntary fire department and local theatres, both as a decorator and actor. Just before his retirement he was teaching something to with wood industry and selling smoke detectors and fire extinguishers door to door. Now he runs around the forests with his new girlfriend, collecting berries and mushrooms and selling them dearly to Italians and going to theaters about dozens of times and had a heartattack a couple of weeks ago.



Yeah and I surprised them naked in bed one sunday afternoon when I was about 15.... Was a bit surprised, maybe they tried to patch things up, us kids had wanted for years for them to get a divorce.

[alexandra]

I walked in on my parents doing it when I was 4, and it wasn't very funny. I thought he was killing her with a potato so I started crying and tried to pull him off. :(
*dies*

[Farrah]

my dads a engineer my moms a gynecologist

[hpdrifter]

I read this entire thread in one sitting and quite enjoyed it.

My mom's an admin assistant. My dad's a flying instructor. He teaches people to fly King Airs and stuff.

[beastie girl 1#]

mom: selfemployed
stepdad:works at home
dad: lighting guy ( sells lights)

[avignon]

My Pop was a carpenter until he retired just a few years ago. He's now recovering from a stroke--and doing very well, I'm happy to say.

My mom worked for GM for 30 years most of which she spent on an assembly line building Delco radios. She's retired and moved to Phoenix. My step-dad took an early retirement from Kroger and is currently working part-time at a Barnes and Knoble.