What trades and occupations have been in your family?

[Myth]

Lame desk job, lame high paying desk job at a bank, bull teasing w/ moonshine sale on the side, maintenance work for a school, and historically farriers

nothing wrong with farmers, they are hard working people and put food on our tables. A lot of the traditional farmers are disappearing which is a shame.

[portusaus]

nothing wrong with farmers, they are hard working people and put food on our tables. A lot of the traditional farmers are disappearing which is a shame.

I do have farmers as well, but before I wrote farriers. A farrier is a sort of blend between blacksmith and vet- they manufacture horseshoes, fit them to horses hooves, and in general take care of horses.

[Leadchucker]

Father's side including me up to the point I got laid off (1974) were all railroad men back at least 6 generations. Gramps was killed on railroad. Grams worked for the railroad too. Add Operating Engineer (me now),Mum was housewife and a part time reception in a doctors office.
Mother's maternal side was first generation Welsh in US and I have no idea, Mum's father was a bridge operator and I don't know any farther back in that line.

[Black Wolf]

Paternal side: Machinist, truck driver (hauled slag), and various other jobs in the steel industry. Do not know this side that far back though really. Also some loggers on my paternal grandmother's side.

Maternal side: Farmers and mechanic.

[1stLightHorse]

Paternal: soldiers, police chief, farmers, rail workers

Maternal: dental radiology professor, facial reconstructive surgeon, town mayor, theology professor, portfolio manager/ equities trader, small time private lender

[rhiannon]

Oh yeah....there are loggers in the family as well....mom's Canadian side.

[Celxon]

My dad went from coal-miner to businessman, from poverty to wealth. Both of my grandfathers were coal-miners. All of my great-grandfathers were too, as were some of my cousins and uncles. Before that, there were farmers, hunters, preachers, teachers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, sailors, soldiers, masons, railroad workers, sawmill operators, etc. The railroad worker was a huge man with roots in Norfolk, England. He worked with the Chinese and Irish workers in the building of the railroads. He witnessed the driving of the Golden Spike. That story always stuck with me.

[Celxon]

Oh yeah....there are loggers in the family as well....mom's Canadian side.

Thanks for reminding me. Add this to the list.

[Styrian Mujo]

One of my ancestors (on my fathers side) who was a Hungarian convert was a market inspector of some kind in the Ottoman empire.

[Celxon]

LOL. No. I'm in healthcare My mom and stepmom have both done massage work though.

Oh and adding my husband's family to the fray......both he and his father are airline pilots.

Thank you once again! I have a few cousins who are pilots, Air Force and commercial. Others fly planes for hobbies. I refuse to fly with them.