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

My maternal grandmother was also a spaewife, born in 1890, she would assist in chilbirth, dress the dead and scry for money. She was a witch.

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GF1 Marine engineer in the merchant navy
GM1 nurse

I'm NC with the other side but
GF2 scrap metal merchant as far as I'm aware
GM2 no idea

Farmer and potato merchant and Farmers wife looking after the house and labourers

Gm 1, secretary then till lady
Gd 1 captain in merchant navy

Gm 2 sahm to six children
Gd 2 owner/manager of haulage firm

One set of grandparents worked in cotton mills first then GF joined the army, went to war and finished his 22yrs as a WO1, then worked in a factory, GM left the cotton mills behind and worked in a munitions factory and then became a SAHM.

Other set of grandparents, GF was in the merchant navy and then became a lorry driver, GM was a factory worker and then SAHM

Printer
Worked in a toothbrush factory

SAHM
Scoundrel

Don't ask. One side of the family is full of dark secrets in that generation.

PGF London taxi driver
PGM owned a fruit shop

MGF no idea
MGM worked in London theatres

GF 1 not sure before ww2, was RAMC, shot on June 6th 1944 D-day landings, died 13th June 1944,buried near Caen.

GF 2 merchant navy.

GM 1 worked in a greengrocer after the war.

GM 2 housewife.

Paternal grandparents: photographer and teacher.
Maternal grandparents: farmer and farmer’s wife.

Mothers side :

Lawyer
Fireman

Fathers side

Nurse
Engineering/plumber/builder (handy man)

Worked at the British Aluminium factory
Was a nurse before marriage

Electrician then gardener
Worked in a cafe before children, was a dinner lady later on

Mothers side
Gm was a nurse
Gf was a railway worker

Fathers side
Gm was a caterer/cook
Gf worked in a pressed steel factory

Station master
SAHM
Carpenter
Nurse

MGF: horsedealer
MGM: house to house insurance agent.

PGF: aeronautical design engineer
PGM: secretary

Nan : seamstress/cleaner
Grandad: carpenter/caretaker

Granny: secretary/sham
Grandpa: paper salesman

All born between 1902 and 1914

Paternal grandmother - Worked in the mills until marriage, then mental health problems (possibly bipolar today) meant she was in and out of asylums for many years, DF brought up by extended family.
Paternal Grandfather - Cable Jointer working on pylons. Exempt from war as needed at home to keep the electricity supply going.

Maternal grandmother - died of rheumatic carditis age 27 leaving 2 children age 4 (DM) and 7
Maternal grandfather - worked with cocoa at Terry's chocolate factory in York, then sent to war in Burma before returning, remarrying and opening a café in Blackpool.

GM1-pharmacist
GF1-accountant
GM2-housewife(5 kids)
GF2-in the army then a translator

Gf1 - painter and decorator, which he hated. Then worked in a factory which he preferred.
Gm1 - sahm until her fifties when she worked pt in a shop.
Gf2 - Vicar
Gm2 - nurse. As well as being Mrs vicar which was considered a full time role itself.

On my mum's side, she worked as a cleaner and he was a miner.

On my Dad's side, he sold furniture and she was a Doctors secretary.

Paternal Grandparents: House wife & Train driver after the war, farmer before.
Maternal Grandparents: Nurse & Russian Teacher.

Paternal-farmers
Maternal-gf worked in factories, on building sites, school caretaker, bit of gardening after he retired.

GF1: made tennis rackets in a factory
GM1: cleaner
GF2: chemical engineer
GM2: post office worker

Sorry forgot to add maternal gm-cleaner.

GF 1 and GM 1 - ran a toy and bike shop

GF 2 - electrical engineer in telephone system; and GM2 didn't work, to my knowledge.

Army
Shop worker and similar
Test pilot
Bank