What jobs did the last generations of your family do?

[Feminmister]

Just watching an episode of Who Do You Think You Are and it got me thinking how family fortunes change and it can be seen by the jobs each generation does. How does your family pattern of jobs change? For me it’s:

Me: lawyer, DH: lawyer
Mother: teacher, Father: doctor
Maternal grandfather: fireman, Maternal grandmother: lady’s maid until married.
Paternal grandfather: doctor, maternal grandmother: nurse until married
Maternal great grandfather: merchant sailor, Paternal great grandfather: baptist preacher

[Valkadin]

Me: Librarian
DH: Professor
Mother : Ballerina, high wire circus performer, manager of a social club when performing days were over
Father: Finance Director
Stepfather : Manager of a large transport system
Grandparents on maternal side both in the Military
Grandfather on paternal side businessman, entrepreneur
Grandmother on paternal side a SAHP.

One Gt x3 Grandfather on maternal side was a blacksmith.
DH Grandfather was a top civil servant offered a knighthood.

[OfTheNight]

Me: Teacher
Ma: Teacher, Dad: Electrical Engineer
GD (Ma’s side): Civil Engineer GM (Ma’s side): Nowt
GD (Dad’s side): Soldier (died when dad was two)
GM (Dad’s side): Escort/prostitute. Provided for her 2 kids, dad said they had a very happy childhood.

[TravellingSpoon]

Dinner

[TravellingSpoon]

I work in health and social care for adults with LD. I am also studying for a degree in psychology.

Mum worked in a preschool, now she works in a bakery, dad has always worked in a supermarket.

MGM was a dinner lady, MGD worked for the local council as a HO. PGM was a sinner lady too, PGD was a postman.

I was the first in my family to go to university on my Dads side, albeit as a mature student, but now my oldest DS is at Uni.

[movingonup20]

Me event planner (currently unemployed) father painter mother sahm grandparents gas board, sahm, bus conductor and sahm. First in my family to go to university. Exh parents were a labourer and a cleaner his job is outing but needless to say, rather prestigious!

[readingismycardio]

Me: legal field, DH: software engineer
DM: european social funds expert, DF: IT
Grandparents both teachers

[monkeytennis97]

Me: Teacher
DH: Teacher

DM- Secretary
DD- Surveyor

MIL- school and hospital cook/seamstress.
FIL- electrician

My Grandparents- sahm, telephone exchange, factory owner.

[Juanbablo]

Me: early years teacher
Dh: engineer
Dad: logistics
Mum: bookkeeper
Maternal GM: primary school teacher
Maternal GF: engineer
Paternal GM: worked for family business doing admin
Paternal GF: car salesman
MIL: cleaner
FIL: mechanic

On paternal side there's a history of Royal Navy/merchant navy/army.

[Gooseybby]

Me: agriculture

Mum: teacher
Dad: gardener

MGD: vicar
MGM: nurse/secretary until married

PGD: shopkeeper
PGM: shopkeeper

Great grandparents - miners, engineers

[pollyglot]

Me: teacher
DF - civil engineer, "D"M - lady who lunches
paternal grandparents: farmers (grandma had her own bullock team!)
maternal gps : farmers (started life rich, met during WWI, she a volunteer nurse, he a wounded soldier, went to the colonies for adventure)
paternal ggps - farmers (though doctor first)
maternal ggps - "gentleman", mistress of 14 servants
Generations before that included: mad Oxford classicist who shot the butler, gunner on the "Temeraire" at Trafalgar, Cambridge MA/clergyman, Scots millwright and Celtic scholar, workhouse inmate, more farmers.

[Audreyseyebrows]

I broke the trend by not being a housewife and by going to uni. My nana was disgusted with me! Fancy leaving your children to nurse the sick! Disgusting!

DH is in the same industry as his dad was. His mother was a journalist. Not sure what his grandparents did tbh! I think his grandfather had his own business possibly in carpentry.

[Serena1977]

Me: housewife
Dh: bus driver
Parents: Miner/checkout operator
Pils: Newspaper printer/office admin
Grandparents:Bus conductor/postwoman and Fitter/Sewing machinist
Gpils: Engineer/housewife and Factory labourer/housewife

Me and dh are the first in our families to get degrees (and masters in my dh's case) but we still havent be able to escape our blue collar past.

[Varjakpaw]

Me marketing manager DH marketing consultant
My family - crofters forever
DH family Millworkers then teachers and doctors

[housemdwaswrong]

Me, teacher
Mum: accountant dad: factory worker
Mgm: in service mgf: carpenter
Pgm: housewife pgf: Baker


Mggm: housewife mggf: coal miner
Pggm: heiress pggf: Baker

My dad's mum was cut off from her family for marrying beneath her.

[ShopTattsyrup]

Me: Nurse DP: photographer

DM - producer DF - actor
Maternal gparents - secretary & teacher
Maternal ggparents - seamstress & factory worker/mechanic

MIL - office administrator FIL - accountant
Not sure about paternal gparents, but maternal gparents: soldier then police when "retired" & factory worker and then housewife when married

[Kettlingur]

Me: IT
DH: Research Scientist
Mum: Librarian
Dad: Musician
MIL: Secretary
FIL: Miner
Maternal Grandpa: Factory worker
Maternal Grandma: Law office clerk
Paternal Grandpa: Typesetter
Paternal Grandma: Hairdresser
Great Grandparents on mum's side: All farmers
Great Grandparents on dad's side: Taxi driver, Grocer, domestic staff.

[Breadandroses1]

Me- civil service
DP- librarian

Mother- nurse at first, later retrained in education related role
Father- factory work, delivery driving

Maternal GM- author, housewife, some secretarial work at points
Maternal Gf- copywriter, general advertising shenanigans

GGM-housewife, GGF- butcher
GGM- worked for BT GGF- shipbuilders

Paternal side-
GM- hairdresser, housewife
GF- Artist, owned small factory

Not sure about GGPs on that side, someone had a shop for sure and there was involvement in boat building.

One side of my family has definitely been a lot more socially mobile than the other, but we are the first consistent generation to go to university (I come from a long line of bright women who were prevented from taking up their grammar school places, as was my dad actually). We did do the family tree on the maternal side and there are some awesome jobs in the 1800s including 'umbrella tipper' and some vaudeville acts.

[persheptions]

Mother's side- doctors, nurses, teachers, soldiers, miners, writers, farmers.

Father's side: farmers, doctors, nurses, solicitors.

[InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud]

Me : lecturer DH - lorry driver
My parents
Dad - professor ( first in family to go uni) mum - nurse
His parents
Dad- engineer Mum - housewife
My grandparents - all mill workers
His grandparents - GD miner GM potter
GD and GM - bargees ( they lived on a barge Carrying coal etc)

[Pyewhacket]

Me : Nurse
DH: Aviator
Mother : musician
father : Dairy Farmer
MIL : Teacher
FIL : Aviator
Grandad : Diary Farmer
Grandma : Vet
Great grandfather: Dairy Farmer
Great grandmother : Domestic servant /Farmers wife

[MrsBungle]

Me - HR director DH HOD in a national charity

My mum: woollen mill invoice clerk dad: labourer

Dh mum: sahm dh dad: joiner for the council

My granny - home help - my papa - quarry worker

My gt granny - farm worker my gt papa - shepherd

[Whatisthisfuckery]

Mother was an NHS receptionist, before that worked in the supermarket. Dad was an engineer.

Maternal nan ran a canteen and maternal grandad did various things, painted lines on roads latterly I think.

Paternal nan worked in a factory making car parts and paternal grandad was a die caster.

[remaininshroud]

My parents were both teachers, my paternal grandmother was also a teacher, paternal grandfather was a pepper farmer, maternal grandmother was a SAHM and maternal grandfather a cabinetmaker and watercolour painter. I'm not sure about my great-grandparents, except my paternal great-grandfather, who was an undertaker.

[Ginfilledcats]

Me: NHS
DH: NHS

Mum: NHS
Dad: Armed forces

Maternal Gma: pools
Maternal Gdad: navy

Paternal gma: shop worker
Paternal gdad: ship write

Maternal great gma: home maker
Maternal great gdad: bricky

No idea on paternal greats but this thread has inspired me to ask

[speakout]

Too uninteresting to list.

My father was an engineer, my mother a housewife.

Beyond that miners, labourers, agricultural workers. All very poor and illiterate.