What do you/parents do for work

[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.