What do you/parents do for work

[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.

[Sigurd]

I am currently a system consultant in the oil business.

My father is a contractor/construction site manager (which is a great help when you are building a house).
My late mother was an accountant.

Can we put our next of kin into this? My wife is studying to become a pharmaceutical chemist.

Both my father and my grandfather were sailors when they were young, I stayed a landlubber even though being employed by His Majesty’s Royal Navy a couple of years.

[Voigtkampf]

The entire family runs a growing construction enterprise, employing currently more than 60 people.

Dad – cappo di cappi.

Mom – holds all the accounting department and IRS off our back.

I – I do everything that needs being done; run constructions sites on different locations, up to 700 kilometers from each other, organize workforce, negotiate new business, material supply, coordination with the supervisors, obtaining new work, buying property, design building projects, sell apartments, doing vast array of paperwork, from simple correspondence to arranging so called construction books and architectural designs. And yes, I iron my shirts, cook and clean my own house, because I’m still single.

Aside to that, I write for two computer magazines and attempting to bring to an end my law faculty. Getting there soon, hopefully.

[Geoffrey S]

Dad: runs a software company.
Mum: translates, and at the moment part-time secretary at dad's company.
Me: student, and I work at a local gym hall (setting things up for matches, cleaning up etc.) and give maths tuition to struggling younger students.

[The_Doctor]

The blonde aint bad at all.

I agree.

Billie Piper is her name.

[SwordsMaster]

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.

Yeah, I did mean COBOL. The spelling was kinda odd...

Anyway, my mum has been outof business for over 20 years so I don't think there is redemption for her......

But here in Europe, COBOL has been superceeded a VERY long time ago, except in old banks, and large companies but they have their own staff that has been there for ages....

[Divinus Arma]

I'm a military cop.

U.S. Marine Sergeant.

[Redleg]

Oh I forgot one of my father's professions for a time. For about 4 years he was a professional Game Cock fighter. Man the trouble and time it took for me to get my security clearance when I went into the military.

It might be because during this time period (1974-1978) he traveled to most if not all Centeral America nations - and several in South America.

[Duke Malcolm]

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

Huzzah! A fello prospective applicant to Her Majesty's Armed Forces! Might I ask which service, corps, et cetera?

[The_Doctor]

My dad is retired. He has worked as a docker, owned a betting shops with his brother and for Barclays Bank, I can't remember the name of the job something to with selling things.

The new Doctor dresses like he used to (only different colours):

He claims they copied him.

My mum works in an office for the local council as an admin officer.

I have never had a job (I am 20), I am at college and on the dole. I am looking for a part-time job.

[Craterus]

My parents are pharmacists. They deal with legalities of drugs, and what needs to be in adverts. Stuff like that.

[Mouzafphaerre]

My dad is retired. He has worked as a docker, owned a betting shops with his brother and for Barclays Bank, I can't remember the name of the job something to with selling things.

The new Doctor dresses like he used to (only different colours):

He claims they copied him.

My mum works in an office for the local council as an admin officer.

I have never had a job (I am 20), I am at college and on the dole. I am looking for a part-time job.

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The blonde aint bad at all.
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[edyzmedieval]

My dad has a big car parts company, with over 4000 clients...
My mum works as an accountant at the company.

And I am more like a secretary. I check my dad's email every day, and report him the important ones.

[Somebody Else]

Huzzah! A fello prospective applicant to Her Majesty's Armed Forces! Might I ask which service, corps, et cetera?

Not sure yet - infantry of some sort - something interesting though. So, ghurkas or guards or something. Maybe the RM if I feel tough enough.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

My mother teaches Biology. My father is retired.

[Lemur]

My dad died in '03, but at various times he was a Marine Corps officer, a C.I.A. recruiter, a novelist and a columnist for a national mag. I think he was permanently scarred by his time as an altar boy. My mom is a business consultant, a job which makes her an ungodly sum of money, since she is supposed to be very good at it.

My wife is a pro chef, although she's taking a break to raise our brood. I'm a computer dude who has been forced into management. I also write articles and the occasional book when the money is right. If it sounds schitzophrenic, that's cause it is.