Who is your daddy and what does he do?

I'm the Daddy now!

Hmm...he's a few things, though I guess I would place him under "professional politician and business owner." He's the chairman on a community bank board and the local community college board, built and owns a self storage facility, does substitute teaching and teaches a leadership class for air force reserves all over the country. Before that though, he used to be a consultant for a housing/business developer, and before that he was the county supervisor...

I'm currently studying computer science, working at the IT department at my university.

My father only knows two things, and one of them is open-wheel racing...

46 years ago my dad used to be an aspiring pitcher for a farm league of some MLB team before he was forced into the draft for Vietnam. He was barely there for a month until he was shot in the head and partially paralyzed on the left side of his body. Ever since suffering some brain damage he's had issues with lashing out at others verbally, and controlling his raging temper. He lives at home and tries to maintain a normal everyday life by walking around without the use of a wheelchair, drives the family to and from places, and tries to keep his diet balanced cause of his diabetes. He loves watching his action movies, sports, and any type of show that's educational.

Meanwhile I'm in my mid-twenties going to college to earn the education, and opportunity at a better future that my father was cheated out of so long ago. I already have an AAS-T degree for multimedia communications and I'm currently going after my Associates of Arts and a Medical Assistant degree since I want to get a job in the medical field some how.

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Is the other one Wario?

He is a prosecutor and I'm a game programmer. I guess the correlation is that games make you a violent criminal?

My old man is a retired equipment manager from the State DoT, I work for a Utility Services Corp. as an over-glorified tree trimmer.

Well, in our inclusive trans/cis world those basics are no long true. Some boys have vaginas and some girls have penises.

Dad is a master mechanic. I'm a programmer.

My dad is the greatest man I will ever know. As for a job he is the manager of the factory that produces all the Pepsi products for our city. I'm just wrapping up my freshman year of college but I'm planning on becoming a Psychologist.

Dad's a mechanic and I'm going to be a journalist. Definite correlation.

My father is a doctor, and I'm finishing up med school. We went into it for different reasons though.

Vice President of our families manufacturing business. We mostly make hydraulic cylinders. Started as a Mechanical Engineer though.

My dad works at a videogame website. "Giant Explosion" or something like that.

My dad runs the finance division and a few other things at a local company. I was also going to go into accounting or finance but I hated business school so now I am in Computer Science.

My dad is a consultant for many companies. He is very successful, works only a couple of hours a day, and owns a dream house.

We always had an odd relationship. He was always working, and he probably never told me he cared about me. But he did taught me one thing. He taught me how to defy expectations. How to reach insurmountable goals. How to be happy.

And now, I am a 26 years old writer. I write fantasy and sci-fi novels and live of my own writing. I'm currently writing my eight published book. And he's the first in line to buy my books.

Wow thought I was going to be the first to say something like this.

Haven't seen him in years, not as hostile toward him as you but he was never really in my life and I don't care too much. He spent his life doing odd jobs here and there ( never went to college, dropped out, etc) and now just lives off of disability and spends his life in and out of hospitals.

I'm trying to get into computers.

Hmm. I think at first glance it would seem like there's no correlation between me and my dad: I've just finished a Master's degree in literature and philosophy, waiting to see if I can start my PhD. He's the COO of a software translation company. There is a link in that we both chose to continue with education beyond undergraduate level, but he's a mathematician (his PhD thesis was something to do with nonlinear programming. I have no idea what that means.) and I'm terrible at maths past trigonometry.

But I feel like we are really similar in a lot of other less overt ways? I went down the humanities route because I love art and literature and all that noise, and that is in large part because of him (and my mum, to be fair) exposing me to that as a kid, and talking about it with me and stuff. I guess there's things I'm really serious about which he is interested in in a laid back, relaxed kind of way.

My dad was a fireman. He's dead now.

I work for the government.

My father's a drug abuse researcher (as in works at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, not hustles for that sweet sweet black tar) and I make music ("musician" sounds like I've wound my head up my ass and through my digestive system several times over) along with reviewing it occasionally, since you can't ACTUALLY make money off making music nowadays. Or I'm just bad at it. One of those though

Wow, Max grew up so fast.

He was an Architect, doing mainly industrial(60's-70's) when he first started, commercial(70-80's) when he was about mid-career and eventually doing residential and or whatever type of work he could find as work started to dry up in the 90's in favor of out sourcing. Rest in Peace.

My dad is a machinist.

My dad is a plain clothes Detective in the electronics dept. He downloads video from crime scenes and puts tracers on cars. I work for an online advertising company.

Carpenter...

My dad went to school to study business and marketing and has sold hair care products since he graduated. He is also very bald. I'm currently studying English, and am not bald. We have similar interests in a lot of ways, but not in jobs.

My father repairs computers and I'm a biologist.

My dad is a welder and works with ship construction. :)

I work as an artist in games development, not really work related, but I did get my artistic skills from him since he does some drawing and painting on his spare time. He again got his art skills from my grandmother, who still today, despite having quite shaky hands can draw some really beautiful pictures! So the art side has been in the family for some time, but I think I'm the first to make a career out of it.

He's an engineer, and I'm a hobo.

Nope, don't see the connection.

My dad was a day trader. (He traded stocks.) And I'm a hobo. I don't see the connection either.

He own's and works at his bookstore. And I'm studying to become a journalist. He actually applied for the journalism education but didn't make It through the drawing.

My god.

My father is a sportswriter and photographer for a local newspaper. He also used to be involved with banking.

As for me, I'm a student-to-be at Rice University who plans on majoring in statistics and psychology. I also plan on pursuing my interests in music and voice acting.

Dad's a store company executive. His company's core business is groceries. He usually handles marketing, and is part of the company board and does managerial tasks. The company is wholly owned by consumers, which is a pretty cool concept. My dad rapidly worked his way up the chain due to innovation and good people skills. At some point, he was also a butcher and a travelling salesman. He loves speaking to people, and convincing them of this or the other thing. It's a good skill to have when you're an executive. I believe he would be a really good motivational speaker. His people skills were somehow luckily passed along to me, as I've used that to my advantage in all kinds of situations.

I'm unemployed, but I'm becoming a video game artist - something I want to go to school for. And if there's anything my dad ever taught me, it's that nothing can stop me from doing whatever it is I want to do. I've been a computer and tech salesman - I quit from this job, because I never could sleep well knowing I'd rip people off their money for products I knew were usually shit or not what the person even wanted. I've also been a furniture deliverer (which involved driving a truck that I promptly fucked up - other than that the job was amazing compared to being a salesman. I was happy every day I went to work in the morning), painter, office worker, and done a few other things. I don't think his job has influenced my life all that much, except for teaching me some good lessons about management and just skills in general. I've also learned how to cook and how to draw from my dad. He's a resourceful guy, he's got alot of talent in alot of different fields.

He works for a scrap yard, runs the crane and cuts up metal. Shitty work.

I'v done a bunch of random ass work, from factory stuff to construction, whatever i can find to get by. I just have bad luck as nothing seems to last for me.

When my father was alive he sold and maintained IBM AS400 Systems.

I am a Database analyst, and I work at a company that still uses an IBM AS400.

Before my Dad became disabled he was a mailman for the postal service. Really laborious job but with a polisci degree he didn't have too many options. Since I'm an English major it looks like I'll be following in his footsteps just fine.

He is the Associate Director of Emergency Measures & Fire Prevention at McGill University here in Montreal.

I'm an artist going into game development, currently in the independent side of things.

My dad worked in the Navy as a ship mechanic during 'Nam, but he was honorably discharged after he lost two fingers. After he met my mother and they got married, he worked at The Motor Shop over on 5th St. Eventually, he became an apprentice carpenter by trade under my grandfather (my mom's dad), even lost a third finger (that's three fingers missing on one hand) to a table saw. He started at Donahue Cabinets (now Southern Cabinets) on 77, then moved over to CM Trautschold (now Trautschold Millworks). He then landed a gig doing airplane cabinet fabrication at Chyrsler Technologies over on TSTC Airport, which then turned to Raytheon...which then turned to L3 Communications. He eventually was laid off, which led him to contracting work for Gulfstream. After they did rounds of layoffs (which included him), he worked a couple of odd jobs (Connally ISD as a groundskeeper, some other place doing small engine repairs). He's now at Lochridge-Priest doing sheet metal, but he's got a job offer from a new local airplane cabinet fabrication shop. If he takes that, I think he'll end up being much happier.

In his off-time, he works on cars and does woodwork for his church.

So what does my father do?

He's a jack of all trades. He's a blue-collared working American that's busted his ass his whole life to put food on the table, roof over heads, and clothes on backs. That man is one of the hardest working people I'll ever know in my life.

When he was alive, he worked on computers for the school district. Repairing them and things like that.

My dad worked on a car assembly line, where he was exposed to asbestos, and was later diagnosed with mesothelioma after he retired.

I'm a software developer.

My dad is a retired banker/government finance guy (I don't remembner his exact title).

And I'm an Art Director/Designer.

Mental Health Nurse. I wanna be a Psychotherapist.

@thevigilanteoflove: Or level of baldness!

My pops is an electric engineer. I'm finishing up my BA in history. I get where he comes from (tinkering with stuff is cool) but idk if i could handle the math he went through to get there.

He bounces around various blue collar jobs (mechanic type stuff mostly). Right now he works for an equipment rental company.

Me? I work at a grocery store. I have actually purposely avoided trades because of my dad =/

He's a sith and I'm a jedi. Holidays are the Worst/Best.

My dad was a farmer originally, then lightning struck the house and there were insurance issues(he took the farm over from his dad) so we ended up moving off the farm. He then went on to be a cross country truck driver, eventually getting his own truck and hauling cars. Then he retired and had a summer of fishing every day before getting sick and ended up dying of pneumonia in 2009.

My father is a biochemist and I'm teaching high school. Career, I actually have far more in common with my mother and my maternal grandfather. One was a high school teacher as well and the other was a principal.