What does your dad do?
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- kelpie0
my dad's a cabinet maker by trade, ended up a teacher for a long long time. Now retired after heart attack x2, stroke and cancer.
Fit as a butcher's, just built an extension onto their house :D
- skt0
a fair amount of being dead.
used to be an art teacher (and modestly successful artist) though.
- ItTango0
wanted to be a screen writer. became a cop. eventually mom couldn't handle the cop thing so he went to work for Ford... became a line manager. retired early. now he retrieves the newspaper from the front porch in his barely closed boxers.
- haha - 'barely closed' - i have a problem with that too - if you don't get the one's with buttons on the front - everyone gets an eyefullbulletfactory
- eyefullbulletfactory
- he's quite proud of what "da lord done gave him" down there.ItTango
- lol.Corvo
- emecks0
drinks whisky.
used to be a fundraiser for Barnardos. (children's charity)
- bulletfactory0
My dad is a General Contractor who is a professionally licensed
carpenter, plumber, electrician, and locksmith - he also holds a real-estate broker's license (he doesn't really do anything with it, but owns an office that his wife runs).My wife's dad is a mathematician.
- like charlie in numb3rs, the dad of yo wife.digdre
- haven't seen Numb3rs yet - anyone know the website where you can watch new movies free?bulletfactory
- kult0
My dad's a head salesman at a printer... I have a shitload of these HBO promotional posters all over the place. Tony Soprano eyeballing me all the time.
- digdre0
my dad is in army
- anzelina0
Worked as a carpenter for a while, then factory supervision, now is a nurse. Just went back to school for it.
- 7point340
draftsman and cad designer
- 7point340
also my dad likes to break into department stores and steal mannequins... for charity
- stoplying0
Jack sold cardboard packaging (aka 6-pack holders) to breweries back in the 60s. All the breweries that used to be in Brooklyn, Baltimore, St. Louis and Pennsylvania. He was kind of friendly with Dick Yuengling, actually.
Now he's retired at the beach where he's a summer tag nag. He also enjoys golf, gin and tonics, and local politics.- haha dick yuengling... sounds like frank chevrolet or bob pontiac7point34
- e-pill0
my father is a structural engineer and specializes in bridge designs.
he was mainly responsible for designing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - http://www.mta.info/bandt/html/v… making sure the structure and specs could support the vibration and weight of the vehicles that passed over it daily. he also worked on a lot of the tunnels and sewer systems thru-out most of NYC.he is currently retired and enjoying his time with his grandchildren and friends and family.
i love you dad!!! you rock!!!
:)
- 7point340
my grandfather was an engineer.... designed the birdcage at the dc national zoo as well as the dc metro subway tunnels...
was in time magazine
- neue75_bold0
to clarify, he's not a full-time taxidermist, it's just a hobby that occupies his time now that he's hung up his sniper rifle...
- so he was shooting animals to get more business... clever...7point34
- I want to be a taxidermist. Or at least own some taxidermed animals.anzelina
- it's a dying art form... no pun intended...neue75_bold
- YAYPaul0
My dad was and aerospace engineer (heli/plane engines), now he's an electronics engineer. Apparently he got bored of moving parts.
- 23kon0
my dad is a graphic designer.
him and some others started their own agency in the late 70s which became one of scotlands best in the 80s with big print and tv advertising clients, he retired a few years ago from the company but still does freelance stuff and he teaches design too a few days a week.