What did your parents do?

My mom was a college english teacher.

My dad was telecom worker then became the president of their union.

Dad was a plumber/businessman.

Mom was a pharmacist.

Dad is a retired Mechanical Engineer, who now works at a nursery because he cannot sit home. I enjoys loading cars for people younger than him.

Mom was a Bank Teller, after she retired last year got into running now at 65 is running 5 miles a day when before she probably never ran a mile straight in her whole life.

Dad is a dentist.

Mom has a PhD in physical therapy and is a Professor.

Borzak_sl said:

My dad and I do the same thing. I worked contract with him for 20 years. Now I work for the same small company he retired from. We do structural steel design and shop drawings. I do a good bit more of stuff he never waned to mess with like going to the field, estimating, and programming some of the CNC equipment. My dad had the dream job in my industry, those days are over. He worked at home, got a company car/truck, and mostly went in on Fridays to get his paycheck and eat lunch. He also was allowed to work on the side nearly full time if they didn't have anything to do. He wasn't paid as much as a lot of people but he made just as much if not more on the side most years and got insurance and guaranteed work at a minimum. He still does some work in retirement when we need help or someone has some odd stuff nobody else can do.

My mom worked off and on keepng books and running offices. She did some of it to get away from dad who worked from an office at home.

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I've been trying to find someone to make me a 50 ft long playground slide that mounts on a hillside for like a month. Steel fabricators live scared.

Picasso_sl said:

I've been trying to find someone to make me a 50 ft long playground slide that mounts on a hillside for like a month. Steel fabricators live scared.

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No steel fabricator I know or ever worked with would dick with anything like that. You need to find a dinky welding shop or something similar to dick with it. We normally won't deal with the general public, neither will most I deal with. We don't do commercial either. We build and repair chemical plants and refineries. The one I work out now basically put the Exxon maintenance shop out of business. When Exxon says money is no object, they mean it.

Basically if it's not something I could just give away you need a PO. A lot of stuff we deliver in a 1/2 ton truck on short notice and routinely bill 6 figures for it. Basically it boils down to whatever you need might not be much, but in the meantime the shop could be making real money.

I did do a water slide about years ago at a water park. Never again, I hate commercial work more than I hate the general public.

Most fab shops can't design or engineer. Ours is one of the few, owner is a civil engineer as well as his son and I do most of the design work. Most fab shops want stamped engineering drawings and then have someone produce detail shop drawings from those stamped engineering drawings before they will even make a cut list.

Mother was an office manager, father was a professional grade fuck-up at pretty much every job there is to be had.

Edit: Sorry to those folks in this thread speaking of their parents in the past tense, that is a tough loss that I am not looking forward to, despite the harsh words for my father.

My Dad was a Rocket Scientist (not kidding.. well Missile Guidance :3)

My Mom I have no idea... Data Input or something

I speak in past-tense as they are both retired