What do you/parents do for work

**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 !

**ichi** · 11-22-2005, 22:56

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** · 11-22-2005, 23:03

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** · 11-22-2005, 23:09

Originally Posted by doc_bean

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** · 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.

**ajaxfetish** · 11-22-2005, 23:41

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

Ajax

**ah_dut** · 11-22-2005, 23:46

me-pupil at school
parents-dentists

**LeftEyeNine** · 11-23-2005, 00:25

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** · 11-23-2005, 02:08

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.