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Poll: What do your parents do?

Just call it research.

Before his accident that left him unable to work, my dad was a customer service manager at Southwestern Bell telephone company.

My mom was a SAHM until I was 16, then worked at the Arkansas State Rehabilitation office as a receptionist up until this year, when she took early retirement after her doctor told her she couldn't work anymore due to her cerebral palsy.

Re: Poll: What do your parents do?

  • My mom is a SAHM.  Before that she was a hs english teacher.

    My step-mom is a photojournalist, she works for CBS.

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  • My mom and my stepdad were both teachers in the Chicago Public School system for 35 years a piece. They taught at the same school (which is where they met, awww); my stepdad was the gym teacher and my mom taught 1-3 grade over her years teaching. They're both retired now.

    My stepmom is an underwriter; she works for a company that looks at all of your information and decides whether or not to approve people/businesses for loans. My dad is a forensic underwriter. He reviews information about loans that default/go bad and tries to fgure out if something was missed that would have alerted the lender to this possibility or if it was an issue of circumstance. It wasn't until I turned about 20 that I had any clue as to what my dad and stepmom did!

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  • My mom is a nurse and works for a company that does pre certifications for health insurance.

    My dad is the general manager for the Courtyard Marriott in Fl and my step mom is also a nurse and works for the Cleveland Clinic in Fl. 

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  • Before my dad died he was the CFO of a packaging company.

    My mom was a school bus driver, then was in the office at a bus company booking charters and managing scheduling and now she's the office manager at Johnson & Wales University's transportation department (I think. That's awful that I don't know more concretely what she does..)

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  • My mom was a SAHM.

    My dad is a construction estimator. He now owns his own consulting business and basically works with owners and general contractors to hook them up with the right people to build their projects.

    My step-mom owns a local art school. 

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  • My Dad owns his own plumbing business. My step mom works for Penn State and is an event planner (she works directly with The football team & Joe Paterno). My mom & step dad are retired.
  • My mom was mostly a stay at home mom when we were kids. Now she works as a Project Assistant at a pharmaceutical company.

    My dad has trained and owned standardbred racehorses his whole life. 

  • When I was born my mom was an operations manager at a bank (she was in charge of ATMs when they FIRST came out). She left there and SAH with me until I was 6 and now she is an instructional aide at an elementary school for special education.

    My dad used to do heating, AC, HVAC repair but now he works for the state and is a supervisor at the plant which runs the whole Capital Complex (water, sewage, AC, heat, electric, etc.). His work week is Wed-Sunday which kinda stinks for my mom sometimes, but when I was younger he would take me with him to work (underground) and let me go on his weekend rounds to the State Museum. I thought I was cool shiit haha.

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  • My dad was the Chief of Police for the town I grew up in. He retired last year. My mom is an Executive Admin for personal trust at US Bank. She has held many similar positions with US Bank over the years.
  • My mom does the bookkeeping for a private golf club. My stepdad is the regional VP for the trash and recycling company that bought his company a few years ago.

    Biodad is a truck driver, last I heard.

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  • My mom works at the gift shop at a hospital. My stepdad is an electrician For a utility company and he fixes street lights. My bio dad was a pizza delivery man.
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  • My Mom is a Nurse and has been for 40 years, all working at the same place

    My Dad  was the owner of a construction company and multiple bars

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  • My mom is a 2nd grade teacher.  But for most of my life, she was a SAHM and only recently (4 years ago) got back into teaching. 

    My dad for the longest time was the food service director at Barnard College and the Juilliard School in NYC.  He decided to change careers when my mom got her teaching job in MD and try teaching but he couldn't get certified for one reason and another... And now is working as a dept head at major home improvement company.  He is now looking to get back into the food service industry.  

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  • Dad is a general contractor/carpenter. We're trying to get him to "retire" to home inspections since he turned 60 this year, but he's not having it. Mom is a SAHM and now my "cleaning lady."
  • Dad is a maintenance supervisor for a well-known hospital chain in NE Ohio.

    Mom is the Regional Vice President of Employee Relations for a big-box retail store, she manages over 220,0000 employees, 

  • My dad was a plant manager when I was young of a food plant for the same employer I am with now. he is also still with the company but he is a retail egg buyer. He is on the board that grades eggs for the country and decides what is free range etc...

    my bio mom was a nurse before she passed.

    my step mom was a SAHM until I was 21 and now she is nursing again. She works in a nursing home in an Alzheimer's unit. She loves it. 

  • My mom just retired, but she was teaching Special Ed kindergarten in a self-contained classroom.

    Hoenstly, these days I have no idea what my dad does, lol.  He's upper management in an electrical sales company.  I know he does a lot of staff training, he's pretty involved in IT stuff these days.  Much beyond that, I don't honestly have a clue. 

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  • My mom was a bank teller and a SAHM for a few years when I was younger. When my sister turned 3 (I think) she got a job as an Executive Assistant at WVU. First she was with the PE Dept, now she is in the College of Creative Arts.

    Since my dad was 16 until 5 years ago, he worked construction (building houses, plumbing, electrical work). For a few years when the construction business was down, he worked at a coal treatment plant. Now he works at a pharmaceutical company making medicine. 

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  • My dad is a chef in Florida. My mom just got a job at our local medical university in their cancer research department.
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  • My mom started as a teacher then became a SAHM once she started to have kids. Then, once my youngest brother was around 5, she started an in-home daycare and has been doing it since.

    My dad was a store manager at a major retail store. Now, he's retired.

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  • My mother taught French out of college, was laid off, worked nights as a telemarketer for the local paper when we were growing up, worked at a bank as an escrow account manager later on, and has been a a real estate paralegal for a small firm for the last 10 years.

    My dad is a senior project manager for the Medical Information Bureau.  He's worked his way up through this company since he was 16.

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