👨‍👦 What Does Your Father Do For A Living? 👩‍👦

[sabrosoed18]

Feeding some sense into me. We didn't meet eye to eye when I was younger either, and still don't agree on many things but his advice and wisdom continues to keep me grounded and realize how important his words were back then.

[Godfrd824]

I like how every miscer has these stories where they frame themselves as self-made CEO $10k /day types, then they've got even wilder stories about their parents doing the same shiiiit lol

Not everyone can be a fuking loser like you.

[Samraiwise]

Pops was a farmer and iron worker
Moms was a secretary

My username is literal. My dad is a farmer. I should say was maybe. He's been slowing down for a while but this is the first year he hasn't planted in the spring. He mostly grew potatoes and wheat, with a little alfalfa and occasionally sourghum. We ran some cows, too.

Every summer through my teenage years my job was moving water. We did family vacations and outings, but the time working on the farm is where I really spent a lot of time with my dad. Really good memories.

My grandpa, my father's dad was a rice farmer. I spent a lot of time helping him in my summer vacation when I was a low teen. My best friends were chickens!

Missed him a lot.

Dad is a pediatrician.

Mom ran a preschool for 35 years and is retired.

My granddad was a mailman so they didn't have money and my dad served 8 years in the Army to pay for med school. Proud of that.

I always love Postmen. They are heroes!!

NASA engineer for 35 years. One of his first jobs was ground communicator (CAPCOM) during the Mercury program. We've got a tape of him talking to John Glenn during his orbital flight.

Have you and your dad seen this one?

[SeymourGains]

onlyfans and thirst trap twitch streams

[SPP1]

Or Mother...

My late father had been a soldier for 35 years after HS. A drill sergeant of JGSDF(Japan Ground Self-Defense Force), he was strict and we never saw eye to eye.

When I got married and started my own family, I finally understood my father better. I wish he were still here.

What's yours misc?

[Samraiwise]

He’s the hardest working man I’ve ever known.

Growing up he always had multiple working class jobs at a time. I was born when my parents were about 20 years old and my father raised me as a single dad, so it was a constant struggle. I remember he worked at a factory, a food processing plant, a parking garage, and others usually doing some sort of maintenance work. He is a workaholic in every sense of the word.

At one point in my middle school years he worked 4 jobs at once. Full time janitor, part time forklift operator, part time cleaner at another company and owned his own landscaping business on the side.

It was brutal. He’d come home with deep bags under his eyes and drink himself to sleep before doing it all over again. 7 days a week.

But he NEVER complained.

Currently my pops is still doing janitorial & landscaping work, but is still not getting ahead. I sometimes feel guilty that being born into this world robbed him of success, because I truly believe the burden of raising a child did exactly that. My dream is to one day become a millionaire so I can pay off his house (srs).

I think he was able to do that because of you. You are the best thing that happened to you. Happiness depends on a person and his/her principles so it might not be applied to others but in your case, I really think his life has been a happy one because of you.

The proof is the love and affection you feel towards him.

I wish someday my daughter feels the same way you do. *bow*

Just one thing I want to ask you about.

You say both "my parents" and "a single dad" in the same sentence, what happened to your mom?

Who did prepare your meals and take care of things at home when you were a kid?

You don't have to answer that question if you don't want to.

Either way, I hope your dream comes true someday.

[notbradnotdavid]

He sells feet pics on Twitch. I'm so proud of him.

[PrimarisIn]

Heavy duty mechanic lol, pretty buff dude

I remember him bragging to my mom that he did 50 pushups at work and he didn't lift weights lol

Last 5-7 years now he is a plumber , made 100 cash for like 30 minutes of work yesterday lol

[Ausaric]

He works at Starbucks

[Jaydawg08]

My dad was some sort of chemist. Idk how he got that job, never got a degree in it.. or frankly any college for that matter. my mom said she kinda stretched the truth on his resume and with his military experience they hired him lol.

He was super well liked in his area, eventually rose the ranks and made some really good $$.. had his choice between 5 different locations where he wanted to take over a team and chose the wrong one in the end.

Lots of backstabbing, different corporate environment than the one in Texas where we previously were and he was pretty miserable. Eventually got into it with his boss and decided he didn't wanna stay there anymore, and quit

I'll always respect him for continuing to go to a job that he really didn't like in order to provide for us. Looking back he would try and tell us about his day and whatever machine/team he was overseeing and some new innovation and we kinda blew him off. It's come full circle cause I wanna tell people about random things about my job and I remember how when I was a kid I didn't give AF so I know my girl and family don't care either when I have a story I wanna tell. 😂

RIP pops. Wish he would have chose something that made him happy

[FoulSmell]

WW2 Navy vet
Union Laborer after that

[roosky11]

Father is a Nephrologist. So he deals with the kidneys and those who need Dialysis. He has been practicing for well over 50 years. Mother is a retired ICU Critical Care Nurse Specialist of over 25 years. She dealt with specialized care such as wound vacs, balloon pumps, and other stuff like that. Towards the end of her career she helped in creating the Electronic Medical Records system that the local county hospital uses when everyone was switching from paper to electronic records. Shame the county wanted to do things their own way and basically shat on her. Makes my blood boil that 99% of those in charge of making decisions for various fields typically no longer practice in those fields anymore. They make all of the decisions without having a clue WTF is actually happening. The world would operate a lot smoother if people on boards or bosses still actually did the same work their employees do instead of being halfway in the door.

[roosky11]

My dad was some sort of chemist. Idk how he got that job, never got a degree in it.. or frankly any college for that matter. my mom said she kinda stretched the truth on his resume and with his military experience they hired him lol.

He was super well liked in his area, eventually rose the ranks and made some really good $$.. had his choice between 5 different locations where he wanted to take over a team and chose the wrong one in the end.

Lots of backstabbing, different corporate environment than the one in Texas where we previously were and he was pretty miserable. Eventually got into it with his boss and decided he didn't wanna stay there anymore, and quit

I'll always respect him for continuing to go to a job that he really didn't like in order to provide for us. Looking back he would try and tell us about his day and whatever machine/team he was overseeing and some new innovation and we kinda blew him off. It's come full circle cause I wanna tell people about random things about my job and I remember how when I was a kid I didn't give AF so I know my girl and family don't care either when I have a story I wanna tell. ������

RIP pops. Wish he would have chose something that made him happy

The depressing irony of how everything we thought was lame or boring about our parents is exactly how we're slowly turning out or becoming. Really an odd thing.

[Samraiwise]

retired early due to cancer.
was a dental technical for 30+ years, mom & dad ran their own business. very impressive for immigrants who can't speak or read english proficiently.
proves one just needs grit and resilience to make it.

I'm sorry about your father's cancer. *bow*

Some people have guts and diligence and some don't.

We are lucky to have the former as our old men.

You still seeing each other regularly, I mean your parents?

[Immichaelski]

He was a football coach and a superintendent of schools. Lol abx I stayed in trouble growing up. Go figure 😒

[jimbob007]

Sits in an urn rotting.

[ParsleyTea]

Dad is a HOA President, upsetting some neighbors with every little insignificant proposal made.

[isingmodel]

Cardiologist. Did medical school in S. Korea, then moved to the US, and settled in the UK eventually. He's a year or two from retiring most likely.

[Samraiwise]

When my Dad was alive he did many things.

Born in 1927 in Saskatchewan he left home with 2 friends at 15 I think and did farming in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas.

Then they came back and did logging in Northern Ontario in the winter sawing trees by hand.

Then joined the Navy during the Korean War. Was wounded there.

Came home and married my Mom and they moved to BC thank god.

He worked in the mines til our neighbour offered him a job at his trucking company.

Became a heavy duty mechanic and then shop foreman.

Retired in his 50's.

Drove from BC to Sask when he was 82.

Even at 93 before he passed away his memory was sharp as a whip and he could crush my hand in a handshake.

The men of that generation were true alpha males.

The man could fix anything.

My father, a lot younger than yours, would be 91 if he were still alive but he was the same way.

He was all action and no talk.

He hadn't bought anything and he build everything from scratch by himself, tools and even a small cabin with electricity and plumbing.

He was not only a soldier but anyone he could be if he so wanted to be.

Fortunately, he chose to be my mother's husband and my father.

Thanks for sharing, my respect. *bow*

[Samraiwise]

No not anymore. Not since I was in my 20’s. As a kid we’d go on a trip us kids with our dads. I kept the first whitetail on my bedroom wall that he had a taxidermist Mount for me. Kept it above my clock snd that and the clock between my band posters: Slayer, Ozzy when he had curly blonde hair, and a Guns N’ Roses black light poster and a Motley Crue black light poster!

Man did that get a lot of comments and was a conversation piece in my room when I had friends over.

From what I gather, like movies and novels, hunting is one of those things by which a father and sons make a strong bond all over the world except for Japan. (Here, it's much more tightly controlled than it is in the US.)

I wish I had that kind of male bond built by sharing the same experiences in the wild together with my late father.

[Samraiwise]

Retired.

Was a piledriver superintendent and before that a welder.

Mother drug addict.

Cool,

[MacDaddy68]

Was a boilermaker in his early 20's, actually helped build the local powerplant in my area along with my grandfather. Became a fuel equipment operator for said powerplant after that retiring with full pensions from both careers.

[GODself]

Portuguese Special Forces till 27 yo, then became a Police Officer.

[Samraiwise]

My pops was a principal for many years. Moms was a nurse. They escaped coal country and a life of manual labor in exchange for a life of learning and professionalism. 100 kids in their graduating class, 5, of which they were 2, went to college.

Thank you Pops and Moms!

Same boat. My father was a principal, my mom a nurse. Both happily retired now, each the first (and only in my father's case) to obtain post-secondary education. They never pressured me but imbued a lifelong love of learning that contributed mightily to the life I have today, for which I am extremely grateful.

Seriously?

Judging from who you both are, they must be great parents and they succeeded in the most important thing in one's life,

you.

[Samraiwise]

He is a man of many jobs. His early days he was in a police department, I think mostly doing paperwork jobs. Then career switch to doing sales stuff. Eventually got into a mortgage company making big bucks ($200k+ in the 80's) then get blacklisted from the entire industry going through a divorce and having now-ex wife max out the corporate credit cards for vacations and gifts to spite him... he couldn't pay it off and lost that career, IDK if he had alimony.

Next chapter of adulthood involved funeral home services, taxi driving... another divorce comes up but this time with alimony... then eventually became a manager for a grocery store... selling real estate after that... then honestly never finding a "good job" again and doing odd jobs like fast food trucks, fast food restaurants, taxi/cab/limo/uber, and now does support/sales regarding retirement plans and stuff.

He's a hard worker that jumps to what makes the most sense to him at the time. I don't think he stuck to a "career" for longer than 10 years. This is where I hope to be different... wanna stick to my career all through retirement, always accumulating higher income and relevant experience.

My respect. *bow*

All through those years, he's been raising and supporting you.

You do what you believe is the best for you and your beloved ones and your father definitely would approve your decision.

I hope my daughter has learned something from whatever she saw in me.

Thanks for sharing a great story.