Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
Posts: 35656

I only know what my family did for a living about 4 or 5 generations back, and not all of them then. Here's a partial list (nothing very exciting, I am afraid):

Teacher
IT project manager
Window cleaner
Sales manager
Mechanic
Police officer (CI)
Civil Servant
Traindriver (steam trains in the UK and Africa)
Tailor
Clerk (x3 at least)
Milliner
Electrical Engineer
BBC manager-type
Life Insurance manager-type
Merchant Navy

WW2:
Sapper
Naval gunner (DEMS, on Merchant Ships)
Commando

WW1:
Artillery spotter
Artilleryman
Merchant Navy
?

It's sort of interesting to me to see what they did, how many different things. I was the first person in my family to get a degree, but they did relatively OK for themselves; one side of my family are what would be called 'blue collar' and the others were artisans (like my great-grandfather the tailor); not sure if that's Lower Middle Class or Upper Lower Class. So, what'd your family do?

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My grandmother went from well-to-do kept woman to delivering ice after the commies came. Ouch.

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-Teacher(science and math)
-Flight Instructor
-State Trooper
-Store/District Manager
-Navy(not sure what he did)
-Vaudeville Performer
-Owner of a Cosmetics Studio
-Nurse(*lots* of nurses and medical related professions)
-Real Estate Agent
-Owner of a Petroleum Equipment Service
-Prison warden
-Financial Aid Advisor @ William & Mary College
-Scalloper
-Construction
-Horse Breeder(I think)
-X-ray technician
-Various IT related stuff
-Football coach


That's all I can think of at the moment. I don't know very many people in my family.

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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I forgot, I have a brother:

Netmonkey

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: in colorado somewhere!
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Intensive Hab Specialist and Host Home Provider ~ ME!
Lunch Lady ~ Wife!
Pastor ~ Bro!
Butcher ~ Bro!
AT&T Rep ~ Bro!
Retired International Harvester Parts Man ~ Dad!
Private Duty/Registered Nurse ~ Mom and Aunties!
Retired Pilot for TWA ~ Uncle!
Liver Doctor ~ Cousin!
X-Ray Tech ~ Cousin!
Nurse ~ More Cousins!
Dance Teacher ~ Daughter!
Between Jobs ~ Son!
Gardener ~ Grandpa!
My In Laws are Mechanics,Construction workers and secretaries or something.
My Ancestors were all Gardeners.

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Most of my family is as boring as all of yours. I do have a great grandfather who was a bootlegger by profession. That's about as good as it gets.

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I had envisioned 'crazy mormon' going back for 5 Cruise generations.

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Surveyor/ tax collector-my great, great, great grandfather
farmer
coal miners
plumbers
teachers
nurses
civil engineer
lumber/mill operator
construction workers/equipment operators
chief of police/bootlegger, during prohibition--great, great grandfather
housekeeper/maid
artists
musicians
truck drivers
mechanics
inventor

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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One member of my family was a carnie for a while.

Going back further, some portion of my ancestors were allegedly thieving gypsy bastards.

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Location: Near Chicago
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(my adopted family)
physicist
research scientist of biotechnology
lawyers
house wives
and a large part owned/worked for a winery in NZ a hella long time ago and then they sold it, I'm not sure when.
The rest just work in their gardens or do crafts and such, they also study alot on their spirituality. Some go for school in something or other and don't work, that doesn't make sense to me.

(my bio. family)
coal workers
oil workers
owners of some home care comp.
lived off of unemployment
thats all I know of them

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Oh, yes, I had a cousin who was with the carnival and was killed in an auto accident while traveling with the carnie. Forgot about her.

No gypsies, though.

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Location: Near Chicago
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It would be fun working with the carnival and always be travaling. But I'm sure it would get tired after awhile. I hate traveling as much as I do now. But it would be neat to see all the people having fun. We don't get any carnivals around here.

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Location: is futile
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Both my Mother and father come from groups of 8-10 siblings, as did my grandparents. I have no way in hell of keeping track of all that (I have more than 60 cousins). All I can say for sure that before my generation everyone was either a farmer, fisherman, craftsman of some ilk or a pauping backroom musician. My parents generation was the first to break free of the proletariat/lower middle class... but only a couple (including my pa) has hit the top income bracket. My generation has quite the socioeconomic spread from semi-skilled laborer to corporate top management. I suspect I will become a disgruntled burger-flipping academic, but who knows.

Cheers
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I had envisioned 'crazy mormon' going back for 5 Cruise generations.

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Trainee mechanical and electrical engineer - me.
Master Bricklayer and The Armed Services - Father
Short Bus Driver - Mother
Housewife - Sister
Drunken Crazy Woman - Sister
I have a few brothers that do something. I just don't know what.
Company Director - Nan
Company Chairman - Step-Grandfather
Royal Navy - Grandfather
Bar Owner - Uncle
Bar Owner - Cousin
Car Dealership Manager - Cousin
Former Head of Hackney Social Services and Head Mistress of Two Primary School - Cousin
Construction Company Director - Great Uncle

Most of my mothers side of the family were in the print buisness for decades, before the war. Most of my fathers was in the military.

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my family is pretty much blue collar all the way. farmers, ranchhands, sawmill workers, janitors, electricians, that sort of thing. an airline pilot here and there. one member of the waffen-ss.

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this generation: college professor, dental hygienist, social worker
previous:
engineer
hospital administrator
bowling-alley and dry clean shop owners
doctor
salesman/company CEO
secretary
(that's all I can think of, and before that, bricklayers, stonemasons, and, outrageous confabulation has it, physician to a czar)

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farmers. lots of them.
homemakers. lots of them.
captain during the Civil War
lawyer
nurse
vice-principal
regional sales -- book publisher
executive for cable company
washing machine repair
retail and catering
priests and nuns. Lots of them.
construction, masonry, windows and carpentry, etc.
railroad builders
FBI Agent
teacher
bartender
optometrist's assistant
parking garage person (?)
operations manager for a chain of stores
one careerist, re: the marriage market (a great great great aunt trotted over here from Ireland, married the richest man she could find, and had him pay passage for her brothers and get them jobs. heh)

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my family is pretty much blue collar all the way. farmers, ranchhands, sawmill workers, janitors, electricians, that sort of thing. an airline pilot here and there. one member of the waffen-ss.

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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Mountains
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My mother's side, the dirty mexicans:

Bookkeeper, interior designer, homemaker – my mom.
Homemakers - all of the women. Only my mother and one aunt made out really well.
In jail for manslaughter - my mother's twin brother. I don't even remember what he did before this. The man he killed was apparently related to someone important, and this will likely be his profession for the rest of his life.
Construction company manager or something - uncle.
Laborer, pro pool player, drunk - My abuelo.
Undercover agent for the Border Patrol - My mom's cousin, my “uncle” Joe.

My father’s side, the dirty french:

CPA – my father.
Builder, terrible author – my grandfather.
Homemakers – the women.
Businessman – uncle. No idea what he does specifically, but he’s been successful at it.
Pilot – cousin
Makes wedding cake toppers – my cousins’ wife.
Works for the Library of Congress – cousin. She also worked down in Chile for a few years, teaching I believe.

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My relatives were and are pirates, each and every one.

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That explains your interior decorating skills.

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Avast, ye wench!

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Surveyor/ tax collector-my great, great, great grandfather

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