What do/did your parents do?

Dad - Electronic Engineer
Mum - Bookkeeper, admin assistant/payroll etc etc, you get the jist ;)

My dad has certainly had an influence on me, i'm fascinated by anything remotely engineering related - I'm a bar manager though :p
 
Ballerina and later actress for mom, accomplished architect and WW2 Danish air force spitfire pilot for my pop. Rest in peace dad.

I'm pretty sure I got my combination of technical ability and artistry from the two.
 
My Dad works for Stannah Stairlifts and my Mum......... :p

My Dad is retired but was a school lab technician followed by IT technician.

My Mum is a typist.

Neither have influenced me at all. I am an entrepreneur and my main business interest is wholesale and mail order retail.
 
Dad: Farmer
Mum: Farmers wife

Me: Bugger the getting up at 5 am, working 7 days a week and never having a holiday every year, I'm going to become an accountant.
 
Dad: Sales/Small business owner/Manager
Mom: Variety of unskilled jobs

Me: CS Student with IT ambitions

Their influence on me from a career perspective was/is to have a good education, it makes life a little easier and a tad more meaningful.
 
Old Man = head accountant for international company that makes car lights

My Ma = senior microbiologist early retirement due to a varicose vein that got infected and half of leg had to be amputated. (that was an aweful/painful 10 years being bed ridden until something could be done)

Eldest Brother = CEO of Knysna Tourism in South Africa (died last year - rest in peace boet)

Middle Brother = Owns his own Guest lodge just outside of Plettenberg Bay South Africa

Sister = loving housewife living in Australia

Me = IT Support

Both parents retired as in their 70's now

They taught me that working for other people gets you nowhere and that sacrifice for family is paramount. They suffered to provide everything they could for their family. I may not ever want kids as I saw what they went through for us. Call me selfish. I love and respect my parents and miss them terribly as they live half the world away. My greatest fear is a call from SA saying something has happened to them :(
 
My father was a Museum Curator/Director (now retired), my mother was an assistant curator/Archaeologist (now deceased).

I haven't gone into the same industry as them at all. I think the main way my dad affected me career wise was that:

1) He (along with my tutor) talked me out of changing my degree course after my first semester - I suspect I might have got a higher classification had I switched, and hence got on a graduate scheme.
2) He instilled in me the importance of getting a job (any job) rather than holding out for something I really wanted.

The above may sound slightly bitter but I don't resent him for it, at the end of the day as an adult I make my own choices in life.
 
Both parents work in/for the RAF.
My dad is a Warrant Office and my mum is a civil servant in the RAF.
Has been this way for many years. It meant that I got to grow up and live in different place's, something a lot of other people don't get to do.
 
Father 25 years in the Royal Signals. Ended up a Major and got a M.B.E for his efforts in the first Gulf War. Then he was taken by cancer in 2006. I was very proud of him though.

Mother was a housewife all her life.
 
My Mum is a housewife now who works part time round the local farm/garden centre. She suffered an illness in the late 80s and never went back to her proper job which was a secretay at Kodak.

My Dad works for GE and is an X-Ray field service engineer so he maintains, mends and services all the X-ray/scan units in the NHS hospitals in the south.
 
Dad's a lawyer, mum's a physio, although both are semi-retired now.

Law's definately something that I'd be interested at getting into in the future, although if anything dad's been putting me off it rather than interesting me in it! :D
 
Mum : House wife.

Dad : Last venture he was into was running an escort agency called 'Bonkers' lol, was quite interesting actually, we got shut down in the end though as one of the girls working for us was an undercover journo that was working with the police, ended up front page on the local newspapers, my boss loved that, nearly cost me my job at the time, what really annoyed me was that the local council said they didn't want that kind of business in our town then 2 years later they gave permission for a strip club to open :rolleyes:.
 
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Father is a programmer and mother is an arts director. Both went to cambridge as well as my brother but have never been pushed into anything. I feel I want to follow In my uncles foot steps and become a chairman of the stock exchange
 
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