What do you/parents do for work

[Strike For The South]

well I will probaly start working at wendys in a couple of weeks and my dad maneges a HEB (gorcery store) My mum tries to keep teh 6 of us in line. EXciting eh

[Duke Malcolm]

I work with the ball and chain of Her Majesty's Government and the Scottish Executive as a school pupil under the Department of Education of Dundee City Council, and have no intentions of getting a job soon. And if my parents earned less then the Government would give me between £10 and £30 a week for merely attending school!

My mother works for the same, but as a teacher in a primary school elsewhere in the city.

My father works for NCR as a consultant engineer and designs bits for cash mashines, and has a variety of plaques on the wall affording his name to a variety of U.S. patents.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Dad is a computing engineer for some big chemical plant (i think Syngenta) while my mum is a Mental Health Nurse with the NHS.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well my dads 79 and he owns a mulitplex theatre and is has been a projectionist for over 50 years.

[Brutus]

My late father used to be a tax official, and my mother is a administrative worker at a wholesale dealer in parts of household appliances and the likes. I myself work as a mailman (postman?) alongside my study.

[yesdachi]

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]

I work for my father's independent insurance agency - my mother works as an accountant/office mgr at a trucking/lanscape/grading company.

[Sjakihata]

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

[Uesugi Kenshin]

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]

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]

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]

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

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) ?

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 !

[ichi]

For about half of each year I start fires, the other half I put them out.

This is one we put out. This was quite the nasty place for about 3 hours, the pic is from the day after it burned




and this is one we started, a training exercise


ichi

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I can't imagine that guy on these forums!

EDIT: Oh yeah, jobs...

My dad is an optomitrist and my mom is a food research scientist. I will probably be an intern in one of those two places or Dell (uncle manager of Austin plant)

[yesdachi]

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

He did better than I thought he would, no millionaire but plenty to live on (thanks Indian casinos). We were all a little shocked when he said he was going to give up his regular job and start gambling more.
The conversation went like this…
Mom: how do you expect to gamble more without a job?
Dad: shrugs and shows mom his saving account balance.
Me: picks mom up off the floor.
From then on he went to a few local casinos during the week and about every other weekend he would go to Canada.

[Togakure]

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.

[ajaxfetish]

Me--student, RA, writing tutor
Dad--retired, career with the Boy Scouts of America
Mom--professional mom

Ajax

[ah_dut]

me-pupil at school
parents-dentists

[LeftEyeNine]

I'm a Business Administration dept. graduate from university.. Dedicated to be a graphics designer though.. You should not live a "taught" life..

Mom is a retired embroidery teacher while dad has another working year left with being arts teacher.

[Redleg]

Me - I make checks before that - most alreadly know that answer.
Father - Used to build roads and bridges - if you drive in New Mexico, and Oklahoma - you have a good chance of driving on a road he helped to build or repair. But that was his last job for over 15 years - before that he worked in the Oil Fields in South Texas - building pads for the rigs, and before that he built roads in New Mexico. Currently he is semi-retired at my urging - at 65 he still works construction - but instead of supervising he just does the task of running dozers scrappers and blades in fixing roads around Santa Fe. So no pressures and he no longer works more then 40 hours.

Mom - before she died - she was a working for the IRS doing audits for the Criminal Investigation Department.

[Papewaio]

Me - Used to be in Gold Exploration... out in the Indonesian jungle and the Outback of Aus... now I am bound to a keyboard as I am a Telephony Engineer.

Dad - Farmer and Engineer... earns about 3 times I do and pays half the tax... oh the benefits of owning a business. The hardest working person I know.

Mum - Used to be a secretary (Scotland Yard was one of her more interesting job locations) and real estate agent... nowadays looks after the house, pets and Dad.

[master of the puppets]

i work at dominoes pizza YAY!!!!!

my dad works as instrument manager of Imclone systems in NJ.

[Beirut]

My parents are both deceased for a living.

When alive, my father was a tank commander in WWII, played pro football after the war, and later was a civil engineer. My mother spent her last twenty years doing volunteer work; translating books into braille, braille term papers into text, reading books onto tape for blind college students, and working at a suicide prevention hotline.

Moi? I kill trees, build log homes, and write for a regional newspaper.

[Redleg]

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My mother spent her last twenty years doing volunteer work; translating books into braille, braille term papers into text, reading books onto tape for blind college students, and working at a suicide prevention hotline.

My mother also did volunteer work for the Blind - she did the initial training and socialization for guide dogs.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Wow Ichi and Beruit need to get togther. Their almost in the same field. Bye the way you can both keep your tree huggin jobs. Im too old for such shennanigans. Didnt anyone ever tell you guys to stay outa the woods. Especially when its burning Ichi. Reminds me Of John Wayne in that movie where he fights the oil well fires. Go get em Duke

[KukriKhan]

Ma & Pa push up daisies these days.

Before that, Dad welded frames on Mustang autos, after leaving his Ontario, Canada farm.

Mom (after 20 years raising kids) kept books for Burroughs/UNISYS, first in Detroit, then in California.

I've been getting a gov't paycheck since age 16 (39 years now). I've been: lifeguard, recreation director, mailman, infantryman, military policeman, personnel sergeant, sysadmin, and various 'flunky' positions I would just as soon skip describing...:)

Currently doing time as mailman again, in a mid-sized southern California town of 130K people. Could retire next year, but won't (can't afford it yet).

Heh. Had aspirations of journalism and law, but fate had other plans.

[Muska Burnt]

i have a job at the a cafe at my school i work at lunch or mornings i used to work after school but im doing wrestling but my mom is a nurse and my dad is with afordable housing but since bush my dad makes 3/4 pay so he is a consultant too

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I'm a composer, lacking regular training, waiting for things to get into way before attempting to -have to- take it abroad. We also have a quasi-group with friends, which never managed to get professional and isn't likely to. I quit business school.

Father is a retired journalist, founder and forced-to-retirement manager of the drama school of local government, ex-actor and director on stage, and a writer of novels and screenplays for years now. Mother is a housewife, coming from a farmer family.
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[Ser Clegane]

Me:
Analyst for a management consultancy (as I am a chemist I focus on the chemical industry)

Mum & Dad:
Both retired - my mother was manager of a supermarket, my father was driving a roadsweeper for the municipal sanitation department.

[Somebody Else]

My father did once sell weapons systems to China. Now he writes books (as well as still dabbling in the business world).

I'm a student, planning on becoming an officer in Her Majesty's armed forces in a few years.