What do you/parents do for work

**yesdachi** · 11-22-2005, 20:37

Mom’s a project manager at a factory and my bio dad owns his own machining company. My step dad was a pro gambler but cashed in his chips a few years ago.

Edit: I forgot to mention what I do… marketing, advertising and design.

Hey STF and any of you other youngsters out there, please allow me to offer a bit of advice when choosing a part time after school or during college job. FedEx. I was there for 3 years during college and it was great. They have a lot of 8 to midnight shifts at the airports or “ramp” locations (that’s where you want to be, the ramps are way more fun (Planes are cool!

)then the “stations” or distribution places and being a driver is no fun, you don’t get to talk with anyone.) They also have a great tuition reimbursement plan and the pay and bennies are nice (plus no union dues

). And the best part… drum roll please… I lost the 30 pounds I put on while working at a restaurant in high school!

Stop into a location and they can tell you how to apply.

**dgfred** · 11-22-2005, 21:18

I work for my father's independent insurance agency

- my mother works as an accountant/office mgr at a trucking/lanscape/grading company.

**Sjakihata** · 11-22-2005, 21:22

Me - student
Mother - project manager for Equal Opportunity projects, funded by the EU
Father - dead

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 11-22-2005, 21:24

I am a student and clean an office, I worked at a college (cleaning again) over the summer full-time as well.

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is a psychotherapist.

**SwordsMaster** · 11-22-2005, 21:39

I'm a student/part time webdesigner/translator/programmer of sorts/fitness instructor/sailing instructor/diet advisor. Yes, I'm a busy guy.

My dad is a railroad engineer and my mum is a kobold/fortran programmer. They are both dead languages, pretty much like phoenician, so she kinda takes care of my lil bro at home.

**Marcellus** · 11-22-2005, 22:03

My Mum works in the library service of Haringey Council. My Dad also works for Haringey council, but in the school finance department.

I'm a student.

**doc_bean** · 11-22-2005, 22:39

I'm a student, both my parents are retired.

Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

my mum is a kobold/fortran programmer. They are both dead languages, pretty much like phoenician, so she kinda takes care of my lil bro at home.

I thought they were still used quite a bit in certain sectors (aerospace mostly) ?

Originally Posted by yesdachi

My step dad was a pro gambler but cashed in his chips a few years ago.

He actually made money gambling ? One of the best jobs ever then !

**Togakure** · 11-22-2005, 23:32

Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

I'm a student/part time webdesigner/translator/programmer of sorts/fitness instructor/sailing instructor/diet advisor. Yes, I'm a busy guy.

My dad is a railroad engineer and my mum is a kobold/fortran programmer. They are both dead languages, pretty much like phoenician, so she kinda takes care of my lil bro at home.

By "kobold," do you mean COBOL?

I sincerely wish it was a dead language, but it is most definitely not. A very large number of mission-critical applications (ALL of California's unemployment insurance benefit check generating systems, for example) in US state and federal government systems are written in MVS/COBOL. Originally coded back in the late 60s and early 70s, layer upon layer of functionality has been added over the decades, poorly documented, with the original programmers long gone. Now, the cost of deciphering these systems to simply understand the data and process flows is prohibitive, before even considering the migration path to up-to-date delivery platforms and programming languages. These severely antiquated systems cost a fortune to maintain, and keep a large number of COBOL programmers employed. As a tax payer I have been mortified about this for years now.

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My late mother was a housemaker and nurturer of two fine sons. Dad is a retired engineer for the California Department of Transportation. Incidentally, my grandfather was the Chief of Northern California transportation under Reagan (then California's governor) back in the day.

I am an information technologist, having functioned as programmer (started with COBOL and Natural/ADABAS, lol), business analyst, network support analyst (remember Novell?), lead applications developer (traditional client-server and early web), technical project leader (data warehousing and business intelligence), IT business consultant, and enterprise IT architect.

In my twenties I earned a living (barely) as a professional musician, playing keyboards in various rock and soul bands, several of which toured the western US nightclub circuit. I did this for about five years before I finally got a clue. It was mucho fun though. I'm glad I did it.