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 Grandmother used to work in a sweet shop - this was The Best Job Ever (as far as I was concerned). A woman pre-disposed to spoiling me had access to as many free sweets as she wanted.

Mum’s dad was in the merchant navy.

Mum’s mum was a teacher - was head of maths department

Dad’s dad was some sort of businessman who worked his way up

Dad’s mum - not sure if she had a job outside the house after my dad was born (when she was 22). Not sure what she did before that

Lawyer / Landowner
Dropped out of Medical School to marry /. SAHM
Teacher
Head Teacher

Doctor
Doctor
Secretary
Coal Merchant

GF1 & GM1 - farmers

GF2 - aeronautical engineer (built engines for planes)
GM2 - SAHM

My grandad was a mechanic . When my mum was young he used to run a patrol station with the garage next to their house and my nanna helped out sometimes but I don’t think she had another job ? Not sure what my other grandad did (he died a few years before I was born) but his wife my grandma didn’t work apart from driving someone around for a while .

The men were miners, going back four generations.
The women worked in sewing or housekeeping until they married.
My gran briefly ran a newsagents but that's as interesting as it gets in our family.

School head
School teacher

Office clerk
Sahm

Maternal GM: marriage guidance counsellor, other general advice type jobs like counselling pregnant young women, etc.
Maternal GF: advertising. Not sure what exactly.
Paternal GM: nothing, I think. She may have worked at some point but I don’t know.
Paternal GF: civil service, department of trade.

Fireman then insurance manager
Nurse

Ran own business as a builder
Housewife

Gf- factory, bevan boy (moved from England to Wales in war To Help out down mines), coal miner (despite hating it)
Gm - housewife
Gf - Lorry driver, ambulance driver in war, lorry driver afterwards
Gm - housewife and later cleaner

Maternal: Butcher/slaughterhouse worker
Shop assistant in gentleman’s outfitter/school uniform/kilt type shop

Paternal:
My Granny was a sort of admin person for the local health board, managing chiropody I think, had various typing/admin jobs throughout her life. But she was also an elected Scottish Nationalist local councillor long before the SNP was fashionable, and a Justice of the Peace.

My paternal grandfather died when I was about three. He was talked of as “working in the telephone exchange” but I have just realised I have absolutely no idea what that involved. And my parents are both dead so nobody I can ask, sadly.

Booth grandfathers served In WWII, one in Burma and one in N Africa.

Also enjoying Back in Time for Tea OP!

Farmers on both sides.
My mums family sold the farm when my grandpa had an accident and lost both his legs. After that he never really worked again but he did raise turkeys to sell for Christmas every year.
My dads family farm is now run by my uncle and cousin.

Father's side, I don't know. I don't think they worked to be honest, so I expect they lived mostly on benefits. I know they lived in social housing. But I didn't really know them well.

Mother's side - GM was a housewife and GF worked in an automobile factory.

Carpenter on the ship yards and worker in the singer factory on one side and manager at British steel and domestic servant on the other. Both grandfathers also served in the army during the war.

RAF pilot and housewife.

Tailor and hairdresser.

Farmers both sides and grandad also a Lancaster pilot in WW2

Granny was a dinner lady in a private school. Granddad was a farm labourer. Grampy was a miner and I don't think Nanna worked.

On my mum side

Grandad: made printers on the factory floor, union rep
Grandma: Worked part time in a factory making slippers (was c cleaner as well)

Dads side

Grandad: worked in a factory making slippers
Grandma: cleaner/carer/housekeeper

Very working class, survived off state pension etc (Grandmothers in late 80s/90s now still alive)

Mum and Dad were teachers I am now very middle class its weird to think how different my life is to theirs

GM1 - industrial pharmacist until she had children
GF1 - Electrical engineer

GF2 - Shopkeeper
GM2 - Postmistress (they jointly ran the village shop)

Maternal GF was a farmer/agricultural engineer.
Maternal GM was in service as a ladies maid before she married. After she did cleaning jobs, etc.
Paternal GM was a telephone operator.
Paternal GF was in the Navy.

GF Dentist
GM Publisher
GF Architect
GM Cabinet Maker

Maternal grandfather was odd one out with a medical profession, as rest of his family were artists.

Being an older mumsnetter and the child of older parents, my grandparents were born in the 19th century.

My grandmother was in service and my grandfather worked for the railways. After losing most of his hand in a shunting accident he joined the railway police.