To think that most families have a common/most popular occupation?

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I am from a large family...over 40 cousins and several aunts and uncles

In my family there's 12 nurses!! The rest are a mix of
3 teachers
4 engineers
1 doctor
1 accountant
2 electricians
1 plumber
1 microbiologist
1 speech therapist
1 hairdresser
1 counselor
3 in IT
The rest are in uni or school

A friend of mine comes from a large family also but the most common occupation in her family is teaching. Does this happen in most families? Is there a popular occupation in your family?

Is this a stealth boast?

I would say no as most families, at least in the UK, are a tiny fraction of that size. Both my mum and dad had one sibling, I have three cousins, they have four grown up children between them. Not much of a sample size to work with!

Hmm. Dunno. My family is much smaller but we have an HR specialist, a translator, a charity CEO, a charity co-ordinator, and a retired haulage contractor.

My mum and my aunt were teachers. As were a large number of my friends’ mother’s growing up. That more reflects the opportunities easily available to women of that generation. My mum wanted to go to university and become an accountant but was persuaded that teacher training college was more suitable for girls like her.

If it's common in my Dh's family then it's Civil servants

Fewer work in the private sector

I'm the only self employed

Cousins jobs are something in the city, barrister's clerk, IT specialist and LSA so maybe there's a couple there which are more mainstream.

I am the only one in my wider family who works in my industry but there are three people I know of who Of work with whose family pretty much all work in the same industry. There are probably more but we've not had that conversation.

A couple of friends of mine are also in families which have a "common occupation" between them.

Not really in my family, no.

Not most families but IME, some professions/jobs (doctors, nurses, teachers, manufacturing, retail) tend to be unevenly distributed.

3 teachers
1 nurse
3 HR
2 ministers
2 engineers

Hmmm I don’t think this is true for my family. We have a real mixture to be honest!

HR
2 Nurses
Factory Manager
Restaurant Owner
Industrial Cleaning Business Owner
2 nurses
Plus a few that work lower paid jobs - care work, factory work, hospitality, etc.

Not in our family we all do / did different things

Edit - I put 2 nurses down twice 😅

I don't really know what my cousins do, I have a lot 45+.

I know there are a few doctors, they all get treated like some kind of demi gods by the aunties and uncles. All advice they give must taken as gospel....

Farming and teaching take another few.

In this country there is no correlation we've got a teacher, accountant, one who collects business rates by phone, IT specialist and I work in professional services.

I think it often happens. Obviously if there is a family business or the family lives in a location with one main employment type it will happen but sometimes children follow parents into professions or follow older siblings/cousins. Or if you are counting spouses I know several married couples with the same professions (especially teachers for some reason).

I wouldn’t say so. My family isn’t particularly big but we have:

1 minister
1 pilot
1 clinical psychologist
1 photographer
1 data consultant
1 company MD
1 occupational therapist
1 welder
1 electrician

DH ex RN
DS Army medic
DD training to be a teacher
Me...Retired teacher

No.
I have one brother, two cousins and a sister and brother in law.
Between them I have a teacher, a Goldman Sachs employee (no idea), a shop worker, a council worker and a naval officer.
I am a foot health practitioner and my husband works with computers.
My parents and inlaws are a cleaner, own a self employed embroidery business, work for softplay and a prison officer.
I have one uncle who’s a floor fitter, the other one is ex army and my Aunty’s are self employed or laboratory assistants.
Really no commonality there at all. My husband has a very large family (at least 35 cousins at the last count) and I don’t think there are two family member with the same jobs. We have pastry chefs, teachers, police officers, panel beaters, bank workers, retired from various jobs, admin assistants, hoteliers etc etc.

@EmbarrassedUser a stealth boast based on what exactly? I'm struggling to see any boast there it's a list of occupations (a lot quite average) or are you meaning a stealth boast based on my large family? 🤔

In my family it is teachers. My mum, my sister, and several of my aunts and cousins are teachers. Although in my mums generation I get the impression it was a bit of a default career for women with a university degree...

In DH's family there is a higher than average amount of doctors, also nurses and other medical jobs (radiographer etc).

Ah I'm loving the variety of jobs!! I suppose nursing/teaching are common occupations especially in women...which they all are in my family. But even the two electricians are brothers 🤣

Teaching of various kinds comes down in my family. Some in each generation.
Also farming, but that is different as the family farm has come down father to son.

Think so. My mums worked for royal society of chemistry, my brother is a chemist, my dad worked in labs. I’m a potter! ( black sheep!)

Sometimes but more often I think you get families like the family in blue bloods where they don't have the same job or level but all work in law enforcement, medicine/health, teaching and academia, etc

I don't see trades being passed down the way they used to. Most first or second generation migrant families I know have been pushed to do things like medicine or law from a fairly young age

Wow that's a big family! How many generations are there?
We all have very different jobs! No one seems to have copied which is funny.