Stick?

[Vuk]

there is nothing, in my book, quite as deserving of respect, as a hard days work to feed the family.

we never had things quite as hard as you vuk but my sister has a degenerative muscle disease and just achieving a basic standard of living for her is quite expensive for my dad.

My early childhood was pretty hard on my family, because I have 5 siblings, and it is quite hard to support a family that size. When we started getting old enough to hold our own jobs and when my dad found better paying work things got a lot better for us. Not say that we ever became even "well off", things aren't bad.
Kudos to your dad. Is that anything that she can recover from?

EDIT: What does he do?

[miotas]

My early childhood was pretty hard on my family, because I have 5 siblings, and it is quite hard to support a family that size. When we started getting old enough to hold our own jobs and when my dad found better paying work things got a lot better for us. Not say that we ever became even "well off", things aren't bad.
Kudos to your dad. Is that anything that she can recover from?

EDIT: What does he do?

Unfortunately not.

What doesn't he do might be a simpler question, but the majority has been truck driving, recently he got a job out west trucking water for oil rigs(trucking oil was better money but if something happened we would have up **** creek) and now he's kind of a supervisor/plane refuler. That's about half of his working life but about a 10th of his resume , he even raced cars for a bit before i came along, guess that's where the car lovin thing comes from.

[Vuk]

Unfortunately not.

What doesn't he do might be a simpler question, but the majority has been truck driving, recently he got a job out west trucking water for oil rigs(trucking oil was better money but if something happened we would have up **** creek) and now he's kind of a supervisor/plane refuler. That's about half of his working life but about a 10th of his resume , he even raced cars for a bit before i came along, guess that's where the car lovin thing comes from.

LMAO! Boy that sounds like my dad! My dad was a professional driver for most of his life. He worked for the Post Office, a gas company, and trucked for Del Monte to name a few. He did tons of other things in his life though. He was a marksmanship trainer for the police, an avionics technician for the Marine Corps, and even a janitor once. :P lol Work comes and goes in life though I guess.

[miotas]

LMAO! Boy that sounds like my dad! My dad was a professional driver for most of his life. He worked for the Post Office, a gas company, and trucked for Del Monte to name a few. He did tons of other things in his life though. He was a marksmanship trainer for the police, an avionics technician for the Marine Corps, and even a janitor once. :P lol Work comes and goes in life though I guess.

i guess a good bloke's a good bloke no matter where he's from