What did your grandparents do work wise?

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Inspired by a previous thread - if you know that is
GM 1 deputy head of my old high school
GF 1 civil servant (fairly high up)
GM 2 bar maid
GF 2 chauffeur

Maternal GF - engineer
Maternal GM - teacher (primary)

Paternal GF - car salesman
Maternal GM - worked at their car sales business doing the wages and admin.

Maternal grandmother: Stay at home parent
Maternal grandfather: He died when my mum was a teenager and I don't think she knows what he did for work.

Paternal grandmother: Nurse
Paternal grandfather: Professional photographer. He did a lot of work for Littlewoods.

Paternal
GF- Accountant
GM- Did accounts for family business.

Maternal
GF- Navy in war then butcher (own business). Was training as prist pre war but discover women when he signed up.
GM - Teacher.

Grandad #1 was a miner and died in a pit accident in 1939 and so Grandma #1 had to work 3 jobs (dinner lady and two cleaning jobs) to make ends meet as there were no benefits and she missed getting the widows' payout by a day.

Grandad #2 was in the merchant Navy. Also was a fireman during WW2. Grandma#2 was a silver service waitress.

Repaired and serviced peanut frying equipment / worked in hotel
Owned a knicker factory / lady of leisure

In the war they were a Royal Engineer / teacher / RAF navigator / Land Girl.

Later headmaster / teacher / research scientist / artist.

GF Opera singer then head waiter
GM Fine linens saleswoman then SAHM

GM - Taught a kind of buisness skills thing for school leavers
GF - NCO (bandmaster) in the army (died in WW2)

GM: 'housewife' (she should have got a job, she was a terrible housewife )

GF: brickie then (because of emphysema) hospital porter

GF2: ran a photography business

GM2: ran the photography business for my GF

I had quite old grandparents, all born between 1909-1921. I only really knew my grans.

My mum's parents were incredibly poor, dad's parents better off but loads of kids.

Father’s side: GF was a grocer’s shop manager and volunteer fire warden in WW2.
GM worked in the shop next door until they married, then she worked part time “laying out” people for their funeral which involved washing, dressing and sometimes hairdressing or makeup. Wow.

Mother’s side: GF was a factory production manager. Civilian then war effort. After the war he bought and managed a variety of shops.
GM worked in the same factory until the end of the war. Then helped with GF’s work/SAHM.

Miner/housewife/Electrician/housewife.

My grandfather was excused military service during WWII because he worked for National Power Company.

Lorry driver and housewife

Carpentry teacher and sewing teacher (plus was a telephone operator for a bit)

All too young for WW2.

GF 1 London bus driver
GM 1 worked for Freeman's catalogues, office worker, I think

GF2 a French polisher at a firm of undertakers
GM 2 sahm she had 15 children . my dad was the youngest and was known as boy, and still is now even though he's in his 70s

Tinker
Tailor
Soldier
Sailor

(sorry)

In seriousness

RAF fighter pilot
WAF then housewife
Soldier
Housewife

GF1: civil servant
GM2: model then later went back to work as a sales rep after the children were older
GF2: RAF then engineer
GM2: nurse then stayed at home once married

Maternal grandfather civil servant in Ministry of Defence in another country
Maternal grandmother house wife
Paternal grandfather head master
Paternal grandmother housewife

Two grans both worked as cleaners.
One grandad worked in factory, other did different manual jobs, both often unemployed.

GF1: was in the RAF, also worked at Vauxhall
GM1: school teacher

GF2: chauffeur
GM2: JP, office worker, politician, mayor, something else too.

Mother’s side, grandma was a dressmaker.

Everyone else in cotton mills.

GF1: electrician
GM1: nurse, then took in lodgers when GF1 died young

GF2: accountant for a big manufacturer
GM2: SAHM but died young
GSM, the granny I knew: think she was a teacher during the period she was a lone widow

Both grandfathers plus GSM's first husband served in WWII, chalking up army, navy and air force (the electrician was ground crew).

And I too have a groundsman at a lunatic asylum among my ancestors. Clearly a more common occupation than one might think!

GF1 - worked in an automotive parts factory until he died at 46
GM1 - factory work then cleaner after she married GF
GF2 - miner
GM2 - SAHM then cleaner during Miners strike to bring in money

Nurse
Catering assistant
Miner
Merchant seaman/all round bad boy!

GF1: worked in a bank.
GM1: worked in a bank during WW1 (where she met GF when he returned from the war). After they married she never worked out of the house.

GF2: worked in a factory
GM1: primary teacher. Left when she married. When children were grown up she went back to teaching PT and specialised in teaching terminally ill children at home.

All born in the late 19th century.

GM1 worked at the Walls factory
GD1 was in the Navy then a builder
GM1 office worker
GD2 was in the royal tank regiment then a foreman for a construction company.