What Did Your Parents Do?

Question

I'm interested to know what your parents did for a living?

Answer 1

My father was a Baptist minister and my mom was a teacher.

Answer 2

My parents owned and operated a GIANT (to me...I was little at the time) Dry Cleaners and Laundry. (NOT laundrymat!..the kind where they had the BIG flatwork ironers..big machines and several people running them.) And the dry cleaning part had the big "dummies" that "blew up" when you put a shirt..coat..etc on it.They even dry cleaned hats..and there was a hat shaping machine. Before I was born..they used to live upstairs above it...then they bought a 2 story house. I still remember the smell of the steam. Of course it was before air conditioning...so it was like a sauna in the summertime. The best part...I was "the boss's daughter"! lol (I used to get in the cash register and take out money and leave a note for Daddy how much I got)

Answer 3

Well my mom was a stay at home, homemaker all her life,
exept for a stint as a telephone switchboard operator before
I was born. And my dad was severely burned in an Air Force
plane, and went into government work when he was well to
work. He went from the postal dept. to the Forestry Dept by
the time of his early retirement, due to health failing. He was
compensated by a government pension for full disability.
Something rarely given out.

Answer 4

Mother:
1. Worked as an "assistant" on a guest farm in the Catskills
2. Worked as beautician at Lord & Taylor's in NYC.
3. Clerk at Epsteins Department Store
4. Worked for school cafeteria
5. worked for pharmeceutical company
6. Secretary for town's Road Department

But through it all, she was primarily our mother, and still is a wonderful Mom!

Father:
1. Worked as a farmhand
2. worked as lineman for electric company
3. Served in WWII as Marine
4. Wrote & Edited an investment journal
5. Worked for Standard & Poors
6. Worked as an inspector for the New York Stock Exchange
7. Partner in an investment firm.
8. Managed an investment portfolio for top 15 insurance company
9. Worked as handyman

And, throughout, was the best "Daddy" a child could ever have.

Answer 5

My biological father was in the Air Force. He was in WWII and in Korea. My parents divorced when I was 4.

My mom was a switchboard operator for a large company where she met my stepfather who adopted me when they married/

My stepfather was vice president and general manager of Kellogg's of Battle Creek Michigan.

He then went on to be the president and CEO of a very large corporation in Chicago with plants throughout the United States. Originally the company made lightening arrestors, then telephone equipment and systems both here and abroad , the government division made the missile recovery systems for the original space program.

When he retired, he went on as a consultant to the aerospace community and was assistant to the chief of police in the city we lived in in South Florida

He was also an inventor and was credited for his participation in developing the atom bomb, extracted caffeine from coffee beans ans sold it to coca cola plus a few other things that I cannot remember

Answer 6

When my grandparents lived in England, my grandfather was a miner and my grandmother a velvet weaver. They emigrated to Canada with my dad who was an infant. My dad had polio when he was a small child and couldn't do strenuous work so they opened a confectionary store where he worked until he died. My mom worked in a munitions factory during WWll ,a movie theater, a deparment store, a carpet mill and the first aid of a large steel co.

Answer 7

After been in the 14th Bomber Squadron in North Africa in WW11, my father went into the Stock Market. Later he and two of his friends built up a large timber company. And then later in life, sold out and went back to the Stock Exchange. He was also a very gifted pianist.

My mother, owned Florist Shops, but was also a brilliant painter, and won awards, although she never exhibited. She was very creative, sewing, icing wedding cakes.

Answer 8

Daddy was career Navy man - did 20 years active and was supposed to do 10 more in the reserves. i guess he didn't plan on dying 6 years after he retired. after he "retired" he still had 4 kids at home - the oldest was 10 and the youngest was
6 months. he went to work for an insurance company inspecting boilers. he had retired at the rank of BTCM (boiler technician chief master) and was on the first crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
mom was a housewife and a runaround. to this day i wonder if my one sister is really his - she doesn't look like anyone in our family at all - my grandma always wondered too (his mom)

Answer 9

My dad drove tractor trailer until his truck was sabotaged by someone who didn't want the union in the company, then when he couldn't drive anymore, he finished his time as a 'rate clerk' for the company. When he 'retired', he got a job as a painter in a pre-fab home company until his heart attack and medically retired.
Mom was a stay at home mom for the most part. When things got tight, she took a couple of jobs.....deli asst manager and then worked in a wooden spoon factory (made spoons for the dixie cup ice creams).

Answer 10

my father left when i was 6, so my mom was left to raise 5 kids (i am the oldest) alone. she worked in at the fragrance counter and the coffee shop of a dept store. when i graduated high school, she managed a fabric store. when i finally caught up with my father 3 years ago, after not having ANY communication with him for 42 years, it was discovered that he joined the carnival and then operated a tattoo parlor in san antonio,,that lasted 25 years and then he retired.

Answer 11

My mother's parents were (my grandparents) were farm owners (they lived on a family farm). My other grandparents were a combination of a factory worker and a homemaker and it was difficult for them to raise over 10 children. My mother is a church employee (for over 20 years); and my father is an retired security guard who works for our county's garbage/recycling stations.