Did your parents’ occupations have any impact on your own?

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As in, if they were in the medical profession, did that give you the impetus to study and have a career in the same or similar field?

I know families who come from a long line of teachers, and another who seem to specialise in finance related jobs.

It wasn’t the case in my own family, who all seem to have a retail background but I work in tech.

My parents were (still are) foster carers and I became a children’s social worker. My sisters and brother also have careers working with children. As does my niece.

My mum was an accountant for a big multinational corporation. The one thing I took away from her was never to go into a corporate job. She worked there 35 years and pretty much hated every day, but it was good money for someone from her background and actually with quite minimal qualifications compared to now. I think it had a big impact on me in the sense that I grew up believing strongly that I wanted to do something I loved and was passionate about, and I have.

Definitely not. Df was in the RAF, dm in the civil service until she married. They wanted me to be a filing clerk. 🙄

I applied for uni with the help of a school teacher, forged df's signature on the grant application ( he didn't approve of wasting education on women), and told them I was going to university about two hours before I left.

Never went home, and generally did the opposite of what they would have wanted.
That was 43 years ago. Df never spoke to me again. I wasn't sad. 🙂

Not really but I recall being 11 and my uncle going to university and remembering that I too want to be like him and I did. Studied different things but both within the field of science

No, I'm the only accountant and working in the private sector.

A lot of my family were career public sector and all retired at the earliest opportunity having hated their working lives.

Yes and no ... my parents were teachers, I knew I didn't want to do that. But DFs subject was chemistry, which I loved, knew that's what I wanted to do at uni even though I was fairly clueless what chemists might do in the 'real world'.
As it turned out, my chemistry job (scientific software) didn't really exist yet when I was at school. There are lots of jobs now (inc many 'tech') which our parents couldn't have done!

My career is slightly liked to but not influenced by my dad. Mums career couldn't be further apart!

Spent most of my working life for the same (public sector) employer as my Ddad.
Nepotism was alive and well and was definitely a major factor in me getting the job (early 80's when unemployment was high) but luckily I was good at it and soon proved my worth.
Stayed at the same company until I (early) retired.

Dsis is a teacher, same as my Dmum (similar subject as well).

No not at all but my aunts, paternal grandmother and great aunts all work with children like me!. I don’t think I was influenced by that though but who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

My parents both left school at 14 with no qualifications other than a typing course (DM) , it gave me the impetus to go to university, gain multiple degrees and professional qualifications and make sure I have a stable career with progression opportunities.
They both worked bloody hard though and I hope I inherited that.

I’m from a family of academics and teachers - parents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Although it did influence my life as I did a lot of study and qualifications over the years, I didnt go into academia as a career.

No. Nor any of their other kids.

No impact whatsoever. DM was a typist at the council before becoming a sahm, and Dad's job was something to do with electrical engineering.

Sort of.

I knew I didn't want to be a single parent to five kids, living on benefits and constantly angry at the world. Or, her version of improvement, which was getting a job at the gas board, then buying her council house for her when I could get a mortgage at 18.

No.Both Fleet Street journalists: I decided I wanted a normal life (!).

my mum passed away when i was 16 and was disabled, i believe in her younger years she was a dispensing chemist (thats how she knew which drugs worked best on us).. my dad was also disabled and i never knew him to work.. i believe he had been a drayman for the local brewery and then a farm hand?

i always wanted to join the police and wanted to stay on at 6th form to join fastrack at 18.. mum made me leave school at 16.... and then she died!

i do now work for the police but not in the capacity i had wanted.. so no!

Not at all - dad was a maintenance man, mum did clerical work.
I've worked in IT since 1988.

In a way that I was encouraged to go into a certain field instead of what I thought I would do.

I actually love my job and my dreams are more my hobby now.

No. Much as I respect my parents and how they both did well in their respective careers, I'm very different from them in personality and interests, so I found my own professional path.

My parents were self-employed and watching them struggle at times of economical uncertainty made me determined to go as far as to not have to struggle. As such got a public service job, paid every fortnight reliably with great options for career progression. My career couldn’t be further from what my parents have worked at.

Yes my father was a pimp (and a paedophile) and I ended up on the game as a child

No. My mum was a secretary, my dad was a salesman and then a manager in a big tech company. I decided age 12 that I wanted to be a teacher, and still am now (in my 50s).

My DDad was a broadcast engineer and sometimes hung out with him at work. I was always fascinated by TV, so did my degree in it, started off in the production side of it and ended up in the technical side. When he died I went back to work quickly as I was leading a major project and didn't want to let my team mates down. I think he would've approved and I felt close to that part of him as I finished off the project on time.

No, my parents had various jobs at different times like retail, delivery, tailoring, hairdressing. I am a photographer and my financial security has come from investing as a side income.

My parents were self employed and it seemed stressful ( holiday cover was a never ending saga) so i decided to be a corporate whore with a guaranteed pay cheque and 6 weeks holiday. . Worked out well tbh. My mum did retrain as a teacher later in life and my sister then became a teacher as well so there’s thrust continuity.