What did your grandfather do for a living? Mine- Real Estate Agent
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Well actually, one grandfather was a bootlegger and the other was a newspaper columnist.
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My grandfather worked on the railroad... I'm not sure exactly what he did though.
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My paternal grandfather owned a fabric store in Palos Verdes, California. My mother's dad was a farmer, then a salesman (an honest-to-God Fuller Brush man!)
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My grandfather was a blacksmith.
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He worked as a government employee for Telecomm, before he retired.
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He converted sinners
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A cop...
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One of my grandfathers was a shoemaker most of his life, the other was a dentist.
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My mom's father worked for the AT&SF railroad in Kansas from 1922-1965. He was a track repairman, and didn't even lose his job during the Depression, but was cut back to 4 days a week. After retiring he worked in a coin laundry and delivered groceries to "old people". He never took a sick day. My dad's father worked in the cargo department for United Airlines for awhile. He lost a lot of jobs because he was an alcoholic. He eventually lived off the state a lot. Quite a contrast!
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Grandpa was a carpenter
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He was a chemist.
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One was a Carpenter, the other one, my mother's father, the one I knew and dealt with owned a Warehouse for small grocery store owners. Something like a small Sams Club or Costco. There were no Sams Club, Walmart, Kmart or Costco in this area when he owned the Warehouse, so he did very well. These days all those businesses are going belly up. It is almost impossible to compete with the monsters mentioned above.
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He was a rag and bone man , here he is having a bath in the sink. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaNTtKchkY
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My grandad was a preacher in Advance Indiana. My other grandpa...... from what I understand the only real job he had was physically abusing and mentally torturing others. He died recently, but I don't know much more than that about him.(Not to speak ill of him, I only met him a few times, I don't know first hand)
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One of my grandfathers worked as a train conductor The other worked as an iron worker, shaping metal into custom objects.
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The grandfather I'm named after worked at Maine Water Works and was a police officer. I never knew what my other grandfather did. He died when I was 2 years old.
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My one grandfather worked in a place called Tubeco in the city for many years. That is where he started up an affair with his secretary Shirley a divorcee. I think he did some type of engineering of sorts with giant metal pipe fabrications. All I know about my other grandfather was a driving instructor at one point and a motorcycle cop in Germany.
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One of the top Physics in the world, If you want to know more just ask me :)
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My grandfather was an engineer.
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my papa was a cotton picker.
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My paternal grandfather worked at the terminal on the Inter coastal waterway in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. My maternal grandfather was a rice farmer in the same parish. A parish is the same as a county in the other 49 states.
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He's an insurance person. He says how much a building is worth.
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He was a major civil engineer. He was a main contributor when making bridges, buildings, both commercial, and residential.
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My grandfather's profession was an engineer.
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One was a mechanic and one was a drunken native american navy pilot.
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My maternal grandfather was a farmer. My paternal grandfather worked at a bowling alley. He set up the bowling pins!!!
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One was actuarial (insurance); the other worked in a power plant (Baltimore Gas and Electric)
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One was electrician and another railroad master.
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My Mother's dad was a Butcher, and my Father's dad owned his own excavating company.
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Paternal grandfather worked for the railroad. Maternal grandfather was an entrepreneur and founded the Ford Motor Company in Richmond, Virginia.
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My British grandfather was a london bus driver and my american grandfather was a gynaecologist in Missouri.
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Both of my grandfathers were Coal Miners. They are both deceased now.
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My paternal grandfather worked in cotton gins and then in the oilfield. My maternal grandfather was a rancher/farmer.
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My paternal grandfather was an iron miner My maternal grandfather worked in Human Resources for Western Electric.
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He worked as a boiler man in a mill in England, his job was to keep the fires stoked up so they could use the steam to power the machinary.
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My paternal grandpa, "Dziadzia" (Polish for Grampa) was a blacksmith. My maternal grandpa, who died before I was born in a friendly bar fight, was a coal miner.
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He was in the military then he just did stuff... not really sure what he did besides file for bankruptcy every seven years...
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He was a carpenter. And a good one at that. He built my Grandma's house, and my best friend's grandma's house, from the bottom up. He was in the war, too.
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He was one of the top Physicist in the world
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Doctor, as was his father and grandfather.
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Carpenter
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He was one of the top Physicist in the world
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He was one of the top Physicist in the world
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I don't know. Both of my grandfather's died before I was born and no one really ever talked about them.
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Coalminer
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He SELLS houses. He's still alive.
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One was a chemist and the other an artist. I guess I got both genes because science has always been one of my best subjects and I'm also an artist.
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I never knew either of them. My dad's dad was not very family oriented and my mom's dad died before I was born, but from what she has said about him...he was a simple farmer who worked hard and died young.
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he used to be a sheriff, until he saw two small children killed by a tornado. then he worked in a factory. until it shut down, and he was laid off. now he is a security gaurd, and he has to work the night shift... and he can't quit or he will lose his benefits.
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My maternal Grandfather worked for AAA Auto Insurance. My paternal Grandfather was the devils little brother.
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Plumber( with the plumber crack and everything)
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On my mother's side, my grandfather worked for the Metropolitan police. On my father's side, my grandfather was the headmaster of a grammar school.
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My maternal grandfather was career Air Force and worked at the Pentagon. My paternal grandfather was an actor and voice-over talent.
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Maternal/Farmer Paternal/Businessman
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One was an infantry colonel, the other was a airplane engineer.
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Me: maternal-oil field paternal-grocery store owner My husband: maternal-farmer/entrepeneaur paternal-agriculture/fish/game
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Paternal was a geologist for the State of New Jersey (he was also in Ripley's Believe it or Not for being the first man to receive a diploma from Bryn Mawr College). Maternal was a Master Mechanic for the B&O Railroad and was eventually in charge of Washington Terminal (the big railyard outside of Washington DC). During WWII he was also responsible for getting foreign heads of state into DC (by train) and into a secret train station under the Mint building. He met Truman, Churchill and Stalin that way.
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Loved reading the answers...interesting question. My mother's father was a butcher for the A & P grocery stores. My father's father was a "shabbos goy" (a non-jew who does work on the Sabbath that Jews cannot do)for the Jewish community of Harrisburg, PA.
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Male stripper.
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Rancher. :) That's what Imma do!
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My Papa was a cotton-picker, and a shoemaker.
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NSA
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Both of them.... skirt chasers.
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He was a Doctor! The other was an buisnessman!
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My maternal Grandfather was a farmer /rancher and entrepreneur. My paternal Grandfather worked as a production supervisor for a major candy company until he retired. Both of them were awesome Grandfathers !
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maternal: farmer paternal: farmer they lived near each other and they shared kids. when they were working on tobaccer they'd send mom and her brothers to dad's and then they'd send dad and his sister to mom's. my mothers brother married dad's sister! then mom and dad married!
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Army Colonel
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Paternal was a police officer and also worked at a water works facility with one of my uncles. Maternal - no idea. He was a drunken Irish bastard who committed adultery and broke my grandmother and mother's hearts.
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One was a migrant farm worker. He was Scandanavian and had 9 kids. He also took turns as an encyclopedia salesman, janitor and other jobs he could pick up as they followed the crops - or his dreams. The other lived under assumed names, jumping trains and occasionally and briefly coming back to family every few years. My grandmother didn't learn his real name until she had been married to him for about a year. He dissappeared during dinner one night. She placed an add in the paper and his mom (several states away) recognized the alias. I never got to meet him, but his son, my father, was seldom home. He worked overseas until he was too old to run around any longer.
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One was an RAF pilot and later a lecturer in something to do with Aerodynamics. The other was a steel worker.
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I only knew of one and he was a fisherman and a cab driver.
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My Grandfather on my dad's side owned and worked in a local North Star gas station, for as long as I knew him. He was a mechanic there, also. He was also a veteran of WWII. He and his wife, my Grandmother, died in 1993. My Grandfather on my Mom's side was a farmer up until he retired about 4 years ago at approximately the age of 80. Now they(my Grandparents) live in a small house in a small town, in Minnesota. They visited last Sunday for my boy's birthday party.
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On my mother's side -- engineer, On my father side -- er... alcoholic?
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he was a pilot in the military.
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On my mother's side, he's an auto-mechanic and a vintage racing car driver. On my father's side, he used to work relatively high up in Telecomm, the old name for Telstra.
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Paternal: Industrial Dyer Maternal: Forester, then teacher
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My Grandfather on my Mom's side worked as a salesman for Sears who would also paint Sears' murals/advertisements on the sides of buildings back in the 50s and 60s. On my dad's side..I don't really know what all he did. I know at one point he worked as a table busser in a nice restaurant somewhere in the northeast US where, according to him, Walt Disney found the model (a waitress)for Cinderella (eventhough her actual movements were modelled by Helene Stanley).
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(listed by their age) 1. he ran a small grocery in new orleans, i don't know what he did after that and before a stroke kept him from working anymore. 2. he was a roughneck, he worked on oil rigs from age 13 (falsified his birth certificate) until he was 72. then he mowed lawns for a couple of years because he couldn't stand sitting still. then he was a greeter at wal-mart for a few months. he didn't need money, he just wanted to work. he finally "retired" when he was 76 i think and didn't work for his last 3 years. 3.i don't know, i don't know him. he's still alive, in california i think. 4. he was an electrical engineer. he is retired. he made 82 a couple of weeks ago. he still lives in new orleans. (yes, 4 grandfathers)
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One was a Nuclear Engineer and the other was a College Proffesor...
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I think one of them was a lawyer, and I think the other one was either a manager or owner of a furniture store. From what I hear, they were both great men, and both served in WWII.
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Mine were an electricion, and a drunk
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One was a Tailor, the other died when my father was 6, so I have no idea
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My Grandad was one of two men who was responsible for switching on the electricity to the street lights in Stockwell, London every evening - his partner kept it going during the day and he did the night shift. The other one was a business owner (family concern) - sold furntiure I think. Anyway, he married a girl who was in service and the family were not happy at all. Years later he died from a heart attack which was probably due to years of exposure to chemicals in the factory.
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my paternal granpa was a writer. Don't know much about maternal one
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One worked in the Patent Office and the other had his own insurance agency.
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My father's dad was a carpenter and did construction as well. My mom's step-dad drove 18-wheelers. I am unsure what her biological dad did.
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My mum's dad ran a dental instrument factory, her stepdad was a railroad worker. My dad was orphaned at 5, so I don't know about his real father, but the adoptive one was a baker and candymaker.
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My Mum's Dad drove trucks in the Australian Army in WW2, then ran an appliance store and was a long term member of the Masons. My Dad's Dad was a builder and moved to Australia from Italy in the late 40's to help build a dam near Melbourne, then the family joined him, and to be honest I am not sure what else he did. He and my father were not on the best of terms. I'm proud of both of them.
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One was a potatoe farmer the other was a publican
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Postman and factory worker. They both survived the depression.
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A farmer and teacher
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Well on Mom's side a painter, on Dad's not a freakin' clue, he was LONG dead before I was even a dirty thought.
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my father's father was a postmaster...my other grandfather worked on the railway...
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On mother's side, driller on oil wells On father's side, pumper in the oil patch
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My Grandfather was a dairy farmer...a big one in the state of Arkansas. I used to love to see the cows when I was little.
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On my dad's side: Accountant. On my mom's side: I don't have any idea...
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Southern Baptist Preacher. Which is ironic becuase I have chosen the Pagan Path.
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My Paternal Grandfather worked in the Coal Mines until he finished night school to become a pharmacist. My Maternal Grandfather did some kind of construction, and I know he worked on the Panama Canal for a time.
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My paternal grandfather was a lawyer -- even plead a case before the Supreme Court - and was at one time Secretary (chief legal officer) for ALCOA, US Steel, AJ Heinz, and the Mellon Bank ... yes, he was from Pittsburgh -- and yes, he had money ... but then he died 2 weeks before the Stock Market crashed. So much for the family fortune. My maternal grandfather was a WWI pilot and then worked until retirement as an engineer for Westinghouse.
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Paternal: textile dyer. Maternal: forester then teacher.
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